SEAL’s and tequila are a perfect combination.

Waitress Reese Kirkwell is getting into trouble with one of her bosses by making comments that the food at Conquistadors Tequila Bar could be so much better if they used fresh ingredients and made their own items. Her boss Cade Hardy told her to quit making the comments in front of the customers so she quietly helped the staff in the kitchen improve the food. When Cade confronted her about helping, he found out that she was a trained chef from New York that had managed her own kitchen.

This is the last book about the former SEAL’s that own Conquistadors with each of the books adding more about each of the guys and the women that they meet. I liked that the author in all three books had made each couple very different and not just cookie cutter former SEAL's and each of them brought something different to the story.

Received an advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Ruthie – ☆☆☆☆
This is the third in the series – and I would highly recommend that you read them in order, as the story of the three men flows through each book, and the experience will be all the richer.

In this story, Cade, the behind the scenes man, gets to find that maybe, just maybe, he has been infected by the love bug too. It is fun watching him realise what is happening and trying to rationalise his feelings. He has a constant stream of women wanting a second date, yet new waitress Reece is all that he can think about. Her obvious knowledge beyond her job description, her criticism of the food, all get under his skin.

As we discover more about Reece and her past, we understand her behaviour far better. I love that she becomes friends with Carrie and Hayden, and works hard to help the bar succeed.

Super cute and very romantic ending – no spoilers here, read it and see!


Lee’Anne – ☆☆☆
Not my favorite of the series but a good read nonetheless! Reece and Cade took me a while to get invested in but getting glimpses of the characters from previous books kept me reading on.

Reece is a chef who had a bit of an incident that had her up and leave her old life behind to now be working as a waitress at a tequila bar. Reece’s true passion is in the kitchen though and when her bosses, especially Cade, are looking to improve their menu, Reece can’t keep her mouth shut about what a terrible job they’re doing. Cade finds Reece infuriating and annoying and he can’t stand that she keeps criticizing the bar food… then on the other hand, he can’t help the crazy attraction he has for her. Reece’s severe PTSD from her old life makes it difficult for her but when Cade steps in to offer his support, the two end up more than just boss and employee.

Reece and Cade just weren’t my favorite characters – I love Kelly Jamieson’s writing though and will definitely be checking out future books. Not being invested in the characters really made it easy to skim, so I found myself doing that a lot towards the beginning. There was so much detail about the food that I just wanted to get to the romance between Cade and Reece! I will say the ending makes it worth finishing.

ARC - I voluntarily offered to review this book with no obligations and my opinions are hones
Reese is trying to build her life back up again.
Cade is trying to keep the "Conquistador" a success.
Whey these 2 collide, sparks fly.
Now they just have to decide if they have what it take to stay together.
Will they give love a chance ?
I loved the storytelling + the characters
The storytelling + the character's build were awesome!

It is hard for me to remember if I read the previous books in this trilogy, but found when I started reading, it did not matter a whit! This was a easy book to get into, the characters from previous books were well defined enough that I did not feel as if I had missed something. Cade and Reese were an interesting H/h and this book was a good read for me. Read it all in one sitting. Ex Navy Seal buddies open a tequila bar in San Diego. Reese is a waitress there, but with a murky past. Fun read.

Conquistadors is a tequila bar, run by 3 friends who also happen to be former Navy SEALS. So, it's popular. But, the food is bad, they know it and Reece knows it. And she tells the customers, which makes Cade angrier at her than he should be...but, there's more going on than what is on the surface.

I liked Cade, a lot. There was an appeal to the guy who looked like a surfer with no cares in the world and the idea that he was so much more than you would have guessed, once you get to know him. Reece was also interesting, but a little more obvious about it, if that makes sense. She was more open, and more willing to share about her life, whereas Cade, you felt a little bit of a struggle to figure out what was going on with him. I enjoyed getting to know both of them in the story.

I enjoyed this title, and as there were 3 friends and owners, and this is the 3rd book, I am guessing this is the last in the series. I like that it left all of them in a good place, and that it also resolved some of the small uncertainties that had been present in the other books.

I enjoyed this title and I recommend it.

Sexy, fun, with a great mix of drama and heart and a whole lot of sweetness. Fantastic story. I enjoyed every second of Reese and Cade’s story. I loved the writing, the details, and the build to them coming together. There is some animosity between the two in the beginning and I liked that Cade this well known man whore, has to fight to stay away from Reese, but their pull was inevitable. I loved how jealous Reese was about his one night stands. I loved their chemistry and the push and pull. There is some drama that brings a emotional, endearing, quality to their relationship as Cade helps Reese deal with her issues. You don’t want to miss this sexy, fun, heartwarming, romance.
I completely loved Reese and Cade and you will too.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A complete 5 Stars for the last book in this series by Kelly Jamieson. I fall in love with every hero she writes and Cade is no different. You just knew from the other two books (though this one can be read as a stand-alone) that Cade would meet his match. He did in one of their waitresses, Reece. But looks can be deceiving sometimes. And there is so much more to Reece than she shows to her bosses. Will Cade break through and get the truth from her?
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book provided by NetGalley.

Just when I think I can't like a Kelly Jamieson book any more than I liked the previous book, I am proven wrong. Cade was so swoon -worthy and my heart broke for him at times. I really wanted him to open up his eyes and realize that his life was his to make our break and if he didn't act he would lose. Reese was a wonderful character who had secrets, but ultimately wanted to feel safe. After a terrifying experience in her home town, she moved clear across the country. She never intended to stay, but found that she loved the town.
Both tried to stay away, he was her boss after all, and she saw how many women he 'went through'. When a secret she is keeping comes out at work, Cade takes care of her; unfortunately, he has seen reactions like the one he witnessed her have before, namely his SEAL buddies. When him taking care of her opens up the attraction they have, can they really keep things light and fun? Or, will they crash and burn? What happens when her past comes back and offers her what she had always wanted? Will she move on, breaking both of their hearts? Will Cade let her leave, or will he find the most swoon-worthy way to let her know how he truly feels?
I fell in love with Cade and Reese and the lives they lived and shared. There were times when I wanted to smack both of them, but overall, I wanted them to find a way to make it work.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest, voluntary review.

Long Shot
Last Shot #3
Kelly Jamieson
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cute and flirty romance!! The third and final exSEAL/bar owner finds love.
It’s not always a great idea to mix business and pleasure. Reese and Cade both try to avoid their feelings toward each other. But a panic attack draws them together and there’s no turning back.
This was such a great series by Kelly Jamieson. I have really enjoyed reading her books.
Thanks NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.

Long Shot...Reese and Cade .
Reese needs a fresh start, she had a tragic event happen in her life that has left her emotionally scarred. She wants normal, mundane, routine. She moves cross country and acquires a job as a waitress.
Conquistadors is an up and coming tequila bar. They have great management, amazing tequila and bar food. Changing us the menu would be a great addition but the staff needs a teacher. Cade is the business part of the group. Hiring the new waitress was a great addition but she continues to rub him the wrong way and he always feels like she is hiding something under her curt attitude. Cade continues to find Reese lurking in the kitchen and much to his surprise his cook seems to be coming up with the best dishes...something is off.
They continue to butt heads but they soon find a common ground and find themselves embarking on a relationship that they are giving an end date too. When the truth and past come back to haunt Reese will Cade be enough and willing to be there in her time of need!
Great story!
~~Michele McMullen ~~

Another Great read.

Cade is one of the owners of Conquistadors. His life has not been great and if not for joining the Navy and meeting Marco and Beck who knows where he would be right now. Everyone he has loved has left him so he is just giving up on relationships and bouncing from woman to woman much to the dismay of his friends

Reese has it all until one night her life is flipped upside down. In order to move on she moves from NY to San Diego and takes a job as a waitress at Conquistadors. She loves working there and even though Cade is not the easiest man to get along with she is making it work even if she thinks he is the hottest man ever but a pig the way he strolls women in and out his bed.

When Reese has a setback can Cade help her overcome it? When feelings start to develop will they admit them or just blow them off? this was a truly sweet romance of two people having a horrible past try and make it work but sometimes it just doesnt or does it?

Such a great read and ending to the trilogy! Loved the humor and banter of the main characters! Fantastic job’

Reese Kirkwell, an award winning chef, left Boston after a traumatic accident in the restaurant she worked at. After she had to fire one of the souse chefs, he returned later that day with a gun and killed two of her employees. Unable to continue her job, she left for San Diego and got a job as a waitress. Even thou she has frequent flashbacks, she likes what she’s doing and meeting new people. It doesn’t hurt that her theee bosses are beautiful to look at. One in particular sets her girly parts humming. When she makes a comment about the food in the bar, Cade, her sexy boss, gets upset with her and tells her to do the job she was hired for. However, one day she decides to help out in the kitchen and the results are incredible with the patrons.
Cade Hardy can’t stop looking at his new waitress, except he knows she’s keeping secrets. As he tries to get to know her, she confides in him and tells him about her job back in Boston and the trauma she went thru. What starts out as friendship develops into something more, except that Cade doesn’t do relationships and Reese is planning on returning to Boston. Falling in love wasn’t something Cade had planned on, but what can he do about it since he doesn’t know how Reese feels.
Great last book in this fabulous series.

I love Kelly Jamieson. I never tire of reading her books, add in the hockey factor and I can't help but love them even more!

Cade and Reese were just what I needed. Reese is broken and Cade was too, I think that's what drew them together and made their story unique and perfect for each other.

Most of the books by this author that I’ve read are sports romances. But I have read this series and it is just as well written as any of her stories. She never disappoints and brings the characters to life on each page.

A tequila bar is hardly the place Reese expected to being working but she’s comfortable there for now. She just can’t stand two things – her boss who seems to sleep with every woman who comes in - and the food menu at the bar. So she’s trying to ignore the first and subtly change the second.

Cade isn’t about to change anything in his life, he’s comfortable with things as they are. But he wants Reese and he has a policy to never sleep with employees. There is just something about her that he can’t figure out and it is driving him crazy. As much as he tries, he can’t stop wanting her and he is willing to break the rules to get her.

I loved the twists and turns of the story, not knowing just how the next event would unfold. Great style, characters, and overall love story with the requisite HEA!

I received an ARC from the publisher for an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was promised or received for this review

“Sometimes it takes balls to be a woman.”

I am a big fan of Kelly Jamieson’s writing, and have been for a few years now. She has a way of imbuing her words with meaning and with feeling—without it ever feeling like too much—and Long Shot, the third and final book in her Last Shot series, is yet another fine example of that.

Despite touching on hot topics, it never feels over the top. It never feels trite, nor melodramatic. It just . . . is. It’s a part of the story that makes the characters that much softer and that much more human and likable. Because I do have to admit that I took some time to warm up to Reese.

Oh, don’t get me wrong—by book’s end I was not only rooting for her in a big way, I was also half in love with this spicy, stubborn, strong chef. She proved to be a great addition to Hayden and Carrie, the heroines from books one and two, and the perfect match for Cade. Who was, I simply have to add, rather delicious. The men in this series—former SEALs, now tequila connoisseurs—have all been rather swoony, and Cade’s control-freakiness couple with his soft side made him quite possibly my favorite of all. I mean, a surfing dog? Be still my heart.

Actually, I really do need to calm my heart. Or, at the very least, remind it that this series is at its close. It’s been a fun, rewarding ride. All three books have been sexy and sweet in equal parts, and have taken on some pretty topical subjects. It’s made for excellent reading, and I can’t help but be a little bummed there wasn’t just a little more.

Some final, extra closure. Because although this one ends well—with a rewarding and satisfying epilogue—I wasn’t quite ready for it to end. But maybe that’s just because this one, like the ones before it, made me feel—feel good; feel happy; feel sorry that there’s not more to come . . .

“How much time do you have?”
“Not enough for sex in the office with my boss.”
“You make it sound so dirty. I like that.”

~ 4.5 Jack STARS ~

3.5 Tequila Stars!

Long Shot is the final installment in the “Last Shot” series. This is a complete standalone with no prior reading required. I hadn’t read the others in the series, and was able to follow who the other characters were to each other.

This book’s main focus is on Cade Hardy, former Navy SEAL and now 1/3 owner of a tequila bar with his best friends.
He seems to butt heads quite a bit with the very opinionated but very gorgeous waitress, Reese Kirkwell. She’s always giving her two cents about the dishes they’re serving and how they could be improved. Cade basically asks her to stay in her lane. She basically ignores him.
Cue the sexual tension. Or so I hoped...

The beginning started out a little slow for my liking. Though I liked the attention to detail and descriptions about the food and tequila, it had me shouting, WHERE IS THE BLOODY ROMANCE?!!
Thankfully things finally picked up at around 40 percent.
Then I really started to enjoy the story and the characters.
They are very much alike in so many ways and were very compatible. They started to open up to each other and started sharing there secrets. It was nice to see all the developing feelings and realizations.

Long Shot was a fast paced enjoyable read, featuring likable characters with heat in and out of the kitchen.

Following a frequently done reluctant to love, king of one night stands hero, who needs more out of life but chooses not to acknowledge it yet theme, we find Reece, the heroine, running from her former life in New York while still reeling from a surprisingly shocking incident that almost got her killed. Her culinary talents, bossiness, and creative ideas is just what Cade, the hero, needs to be challenged and intrigued enough to put an end to his Casanova, womanizing ways. The fact they both are struggling with emotional baggage/issues binds them together even more. Cade starts to see a strength in Reece that makes him want to be a better man, folks.

With quiet disdain for having the morals of an alleycat, Reece might appreciate the outward man package Cade projects,but she’s smart enough to know this guy isn’t looking for real love and commitment. She starts to get under his skin though when she begins to meddle and step into a self appointed role of helping improve the Tequila bar Cade co-owns with friends and where she is definitely underemployed. Yeah, this girl has game in the kitchen, and she can’t seem to sit on the sidelines any longer.

For a quick, leisurely, steamy read, I did enjoy seeing this couple come to know one another. If you like graphic, smexy scenes with lusty language, stick around long enough as they definitely appear later in the book. Thankfully they only occur between the main couple. Other than the big reveal of Reece’s brush with near death, several parts were formatic and played out rather predictable. However, I still enjoyed the writing and stayed fully engaged.

Title: Long Shot, Series: Last Shot (Book 3), Author: Kelly Jamieson, Pages: 220, stand-alone but part of a series, former manho hero, PTSD heroine, very graphic steamy scenes with lusty language, no love triangle, no cheating, a few OW run-ins and one brief ex-boss/lover cameo appearance.

Book 1 - Body Shot (Hayden and Beck)
Book 2 - Hot Shot (Carrie and Marco)
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Book 3 - Long Shot (Cade and Reece)

(I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I was not given any payment or compensation for this review, nor is there any affiliation or relationship between this reviewer and the author/publisher/NetGalley.)

It’s never a good sign when it takes me five days to read a book.

I have read one other book by Kelly Jamieson - Dancing in the Rain. It was fantastic, which is why I requested the ARC for Long Shot. However, right from the beginning it seemed like this was written by a completely different author, reading more like a YA story than one about people who are in their 30s (or very close to it), and had multiple things that just made me roll my eyes. Which is unflattering for a woman on the downward slope of her 40s.

Reese has fled from New York City for some mysterious reason (this is strike one for me against this book - I don’t like when something is held back for the purpose of artificially creating drama). She works as a waitress at a tequila bar owned by Cade and his two friends, all of whom are former Navy SEALS (because, of course they are). Reese is a good waitress, but Cade can tell she’s not really who she’s pretending to be.

Besides a lot of talk about food, not much else really happens in this book, especially in the first third of the book. Reese’s internal monologue spends a lot of time alluding to some big event that happened in NYC, and when revealed it was actually a good reason for picking up and moving to San Diego - but there was no reason to keep it a big secret. And then when Cade finds out who she really was before moving to San Diego, he’s so furious that he wants to fire her?! I’m sorry, but that reaction was over-the-top and ridiculous.

A decent attempt was made at character development, but again, I felt things were overdone. Cade’s backstory was extremely sad, but it seemed like the author thought, oh, crappy parents aren’t bad enough, what else can I throw in? And the “reason” why he was going through women like cheap tequila almost made sense to me, but didn’t make me like him any better (although I did give the author bonus points for something original there!).

Another thing that made me roll my eyes were the descriptions of her new friends, Carrie, who is a photographer, and Hayden, a scientist “who’s working on a cure for cancer.” Maybe I’m just in a cynical mood, but really? To round out the group, maybe Carrie could be working towards world peace while Reese solves world hunger. Throw in a dog that they teach to surf (and spent half a long chapter on it), and I think my eyes may get stuck in the top of my head. Sorry, that’s a bit snarky of me, but that’s what this book made me do!

There just wasn’t much that worked for me in this book. I didn’t care for the writing, I didn’t care for the story, I didn’t care for the characters (I haven’t even touched on my dislike of the manskank “hero”), and I barely made it through this book. The only thing that saved it from a single-star rating was a sorta decent ending, although an epilogue that covers the next week after the story ends seems kinda silly. I’ll give Kelly Jamieson another try, but sadly this book was a miss for me.

I love this series and this one did not disappoint! I've been looking forward to Cade's story and Kelly Jamieson definitely delivered an amazing story! Cade and Reese are a fantastic, multi-faceted couple. They are not in any way perfect. They are complex, struggling people who begin to help heal each other. I love Reece's dog and how that storyline was weaved into the overall story. Quite well written, expertly paced, great character development. It has all the elements of a good romance! This one grabbed me and swept me up. I did not want to put it down and yet I didn't want it to end. I don't think you have to read this series in order but I think you'll get a lot of extra enjoyment if you do! I definitely recommend this one! Happy reading!

This one comes out on February 27th so be sure to make a note to pick it up then!