Member Reviews
Crystal Lacey Winslow weaves a tantalizing tale of love, passion, and the complexities of relationships in this wild and alluring novella. With vibrant characters and a touch of mystery, Dangerously In Love will keep you engaged and pondering matters of the heart long after you've turned the last page.
Short, quick re-release read. Left me a little flat, but it was okay.That ending though, Wow! I'd recommend it to others.
Jovie and London meet by chance on New Year's Eve one year and eventually meet again some time later and form a relationship. London is newly out of a relationship and finds Jovie sweet and innocent unlike his ex. Jovie hasn't had much luck in love, either, and the two reconnect. However, their romance isn't as it seems. as readers find out on this steamy read. I thought this was a decent read, a bit unrealistic, but interesting nevertheless.
This is the second novella I read from a quartet. I really enjoyed this story, especially the main character’s Jovie random trivia facts. I was definitely not expecting the ending! This was a re-release, and I am glad I was introduced to this author, will read again.
It was ok. This may be a good read while in an airport. I would recommend it
While reading this book I ccould not shake the fact that I had read this book before. The book is good and the plot is on point. Good read for a lazy afternoon. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.
It's a re release of a previously written story. The book was just ok until you get to the end. Thanks to Net Galley for the ARC
I had high hope for this, which I got as part of a collection of four romance novellas and I was really disappointed. There is nothing romantic about these books. There is no fantasy of what a relationship could be. It's just a series of poorly written stories with shallow characters who do not have a single redeeming quality. It's so not worth a read.
A sexy tale of twins, a body guard and a lot of other twists and turns. A quick novella!
This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.
This was one of four novellas I got from Net Galley centered around the festive season and relationships. All of them were disappointing, I'm sorry to report. The problem was that they were far less romance than they were soft-core porn, and there really wasn't much porn, so what did that leave? In a two words: very little - and nearly all of that was a disappointment. I wish the authors all the best in their careers. I found these stories most saddening because some of these of these writers can write. I just wish they would have reached higher, instead of going solely for the low-hanging fruit.
Note that this is obviously just my opinion, and I'm not normally one for reading his kind of fiction, but I'm curious about all genres and I like to keep up with what's going on in them. It had seemed to me that this was a great opportunity to take in something new and maybe find a new writer to love. I'm sorry it didn't work out.
There seemed to be a common theme among the novellas: that of being single and feeling unloved, or of being in a dysfunctional relationship that the main character had somehow deluded themselves into thinking was the one - or at least was better than nothing! I know how that goes. But the way they 'fixed' their 'problem' was asinine cowardice, not romance.
There was a consistent problem in that all of the characters were so shallow: they were all about fancy clothes and designer shoes and hot sex, and in the case of every one of the women, that hot sex had to be with a tall guy who had an overly-large penis. It was sad to read how juvenile and poorly-focused these people were - and also what poor judges of potential partners they were, and how thoroughly shallow and clueless they were. Not one of them actually deserved a decent relationship because none of them had earned one.
In this particular case the story was about a guy who was in a relationship with a girl he thought he loved. The guy, London, is a bodyguard for hire and most recently had been working for a rapper. He was planning on proposing to his girlfriend on New Year's Eve and for some reason had thought it was a good idea to buy an eight-thousand dollar engagement ring the purchase of which left him all-but broke. This told me the guy was an idiot, and was one of the hallmarks of this story: conspicuous consumption. His girlfriend was right to leave someone who evidenced as little forethought and planning as he did, but she was equally short-sighted. Neither of them was worth reading about.
Inevitably, because it's that kind of a story, after the break-up London ends up falling for Jovie which sounds so disturbingly like Juvie that it made me wonder if she was under-age! Anyway, Jovie has an evil twin. I'm not making this up (the author is!) This 'twin thing' has been way overdone, and if you're dead set on employing it in a plot, you need to find something truly new to bring to it. Evil twin doesn't cut it, and certainly not here. The evil twin wants to wreck her sister's relationship with London. The thing is that I'd lost faith in the story by this point, so I really care what evil twin was up to, or what happened to any of them for that matter.
I had very little reason to believe that her motive was smart or justified or valid. I need something better than this: something original, and with life in it. I really wasn't interested in any of these blinkered, shallow and self-obsessed characters at all. I need instead real people who have real feelings and who are clued-in to life. This was more like a fairy take than ever it was a serious story about adult relationships and frankly, I have better things to read with my time. Life is too short - even for a short story like this - and I cannot recommend it.
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.
London is planning to propose to his girlfriend, Su, on New Year's Eve in England. When she leaves him for the rapper London was working for, London ends up sharing the night with Jovie, who provides him a shoulder to cry on. Fate brings them back together when they meet in New York City, where they both live. London wants a relationship with Jovie, but Jovie's twin sister Jada has other plans.
I saw the plot twist coming from a mile away but did not guess the ending. <spoiler>I don't find it believable at all that London wouldn't notice that Jovie wasn't actually a virgin, given that she had <b>had a baby</b>!</spoiler> I liked Jovie's quirk of spouting random trivia. Three stories into the quartet of novellas, this has been the best so far, but that's not saying much.
Gotta love the evil twin! Jovie and London already have a few things running against them (that first meeting) but wow, what will both of them do about Jada? And what will Jada do? This is a quick, entertaining read- good escapism. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.