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Sweet, sexy and exciting! Highly recommended!!
*ARC provided by NetGalley and the publisher in return for an honest review*
Christina Elle did a wonderful job of bring of creating characters that reader will not only fall head over heel in love with but cheer for as the story unfolds. The story is well spaced with moments of romance mixed in with mystery.
In Walked Trouble has a lot and I mean a lot of inner monologue which is entertaining as well what causes a communication issues between Luke and Cass. The story starts to really pick up pace after they romantically get together and of course the conflict that will tear them apart.
Christina Elle will make reader want to pick up book one in the series no because readers will be lost but because of her ability to have the readers get to know the other characters they grow to love.
The little old ladies had me cracking up as the play match maker as well as parent.
I can't wait to read the first in the series as well as book 3.
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for my advance copy of In Walked Trouble.
I honestly had not expected this story to be as laugh out funny as it was, then changes its tone, creating a totally different feel to the story...in a really good way. Cass is in a class of her own when it comes to smart, witty, and engaging. Luke's inner monologues in response to Cass's banter and behavior were hilarity in themselves. The author's ability to create create characters who surprise you is a wonderful way to keep a story moving along smoothly, at a quick and entertaining pace
While the story starts out in a style some may think as softly, it took of, building steam as the story progressed. There were some excellently executed tense moments where the story could go either way...I truly thought it took a turn that was going to be heartbreaking. The author definitely knows how to draw her readers into the story, with twists and turns...with the least expected and surprising instances just popping out of nowhere to cause a whole different turn to the story.
I hope the series will continue, I've enjoyed Ms Elle's brand of storytelling and look forward to seeing more of her work in the future.
This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and Netgalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.
LOVED this book! Luke is at a bar one evening when Cass walks in looking for a bad boy. He's too pretty and clean cut for what she wants, but they start talking anyway and Luke is amused by her, but not particularly interested. Surprisingly, he then sees her at a drug buy that he's surveilling as part of his job as an undercover DEA agent. Luke doesn't know her role and she doesn't understand what he's doing there. Such begins one of the most unusual romances ever, as, instead of answering her questions, he asks her out.
This is a quickly moving romantic suspense that fans of the genre will love. I would give this 4.5 stars, but rounded up. It lost half a point for the incredulity of a woman getting involved with a man without knowing his job - not even a made up story about a job. However, even with that, this is a great book that should be at the top of your TBR list. The author is on my must read authors' list.
This book was fantastic. Cassandra is so compassionate about her students. She goes way beyond what is expected, and truly tries to reach the troubled teens. She was definitely my favorite character.
Luke is pretty lucky to have such good friends to work with. They have each others back every single time. It was funny, all the grief that the guys give him while he's on coms. They give him a hard time and he can't say anything or else he'd blow his cover.
Luke and Cassandra make a cute couple. Cassandra not sure if she's desirable to men. And Luke has no problem showing her just how desirable she truly is.
What a ride! Elle brought her A-game right here with this great read that incorporates a balanced mix of suspense, romance, a bit of humor and some sexy heat! Definitely a must-read!
An ARC was generously provided in exchange for an honest review of which this is both honest and completely voluntary.
Hang onto your seat reading this one. It's everything it promises and more. Lies, betrayal, suspense, revenge and a good amount of steam thrown in.
Cass meets Luke one night when she walked into a bar alone, looking for some as she called it "hot, bad boy" after catching her fiancé in bed with a coworker. He told her she was boring. She's out to prove him wrong. There she meets Luke, nicely dressed who represents everything she hates, because she just walked out on the nicely dressed guy... so she thinks she's already got his number. She wants some hot, tatted, bike riding bad boy. Really unsure what she'll do when she gets him, but hey, she's out there. She gets pretty drunk and finally talks to Luke a little. Luke has the bartender call a cab to get her home and when she passes out, he takes her home to his place. Waking up in the morning she remembers what happened and then hears three women upstairs giggling talking about squeezing those balls and giving Luke what he needs and wow is she mad. She's already made it clear that she hates liars. She tries to sneak out, calls an Uber and realizes that she was supposed to keep an eye on a student today, one she fears is headed down the wrong path. She heads home to change into winter clothes and then to the park. Watching from behind the trees, she's watching the 4 boys. Also watching these 4 are Luke and his team he works with from the DEA. Cass doesn't know what Luke does for a living. At one point they have to intercept her and a couple of them grill her about her student and what she knows, and they are abrupt about it. After book one, you'll know that Luke now has a bulls eye on his back by a drug kingpin they are trying to bring down for reasons you can read in the book.
Back to the basement scene when she wakes up and dashes upstairs she's met with the looks from 3 older women who are there fixing him breakfast. Hysterical they are. Luke is living with Maybell and they too have a connection.
Because of the threat on Luke's life when the guys are doing anything, their COM is always on, even when he's with Cass, which leads to some pretty embarrassing things said in his ear by his teammates and Cass is clueless he's got that earpiece in.
Cass is a high school guidance counselor and tries her best to help these kids who wouldn't otherwise have a chance. Her school seems to be almost under siege with drug deaths and some gang related activity and kids are dying. Same case that Luke is working on.
Things heat up finally with them about the last third of the book, not overdone either and inconvenient for him, she finds out he's been lying to her when she sees him doing his thing as an undercover agent. Holy Wow is she pissed and we know she hates liars. He comes to see her to ask why she was there, and she gives him hell and the whole thing spirals out of control. She throws Luke out. A few minutes later she's abducted. Which sets off a whole new direction for the story. We know things are about to get intense and interesting, we just don't know how much and how deeply.
I can't believe this is only the authors second book. Amazing and intense and what a great story!! Cass and Luke have this intense connection yet they're focus lies elsewhere and their attempts at anything more than a kiss always seems to be thwarted by someone, made for some grins.
I loved Maybell and her two friends. The banter between the guys was hysterical, and they each have their own story to tell. Great story Christina!! I loved it! I anxiously await Tyke's book.
4.5 stars from me.
**arc from NetGalley and Entangled in exchange for a fair review.**
**I received a copy of In Walked Trouble from Entangled Publishing and Net Galley in exchange for a voluntary and honest review**
In Walked Trouble by Christina Elle is the second book of her Under Covers series by the author. This is the first time I've read her and hopefully Tyke's story will be the next book.
Luke Calder is a DEA agent who with his team have been informed that drug load Serrano is back in the US and has put a hit out on him because the team had killed his daughter and grandson. Luke is determined to drink himself into oblivion until Cassie walks into the bar with intentions of getting drunk and laid. She has just caught her fiance with his secretary and been told that she isn't spontaneous enough in bed, very determined to prove him wrong, she sees Luke as her chance to live a little. But he's a gentleman and takes her home after she passes out. However the next day during a drug bust who should show up in the same park but Cassie who had just run away his house after a misunderstanding that very morning.
Cassandra Stone is a guidance counselor at a high a school who just wants more for the kids than being in gangs and selling drugs and not taking a chance to further their education after high school. A small town girl from Montana who has come to Baltimore with a dream of showing the kids a brighter future but first she has to convince her father that she doesn't want to come home, she wants to make a difference. When she meets Luke she doesn't realize how entwined their lives will be when one of her students, Miguel whose brother is a up and coming drug dealer wants to get more kids into drugs at any cost even death. When she ends kidnapped its just plain luck that Luke finds her while raiding the abandoned house. Unfortunately, a gun fight starts when the agents try to rescue the hostages and Cassie ends up severely hurt. Will Luke and Cassie manage to get beyond their differences and stay together?
I loved the three ladies who took in Luke when he needed them they were a hoot and their conversation of sex was hilarious! I really hope that Tyke gets the next book as there was a tiny hint towards the end that the woman he'd been waiting for was mentioned. All in all I'd give the book a solid 4 stars and feel that it could be read as a stand alone without reading the first book, On her six.