Review: The Billionaire Bad Boys Club by Emma Holly

Title: The Billionaire Bad Boys Club

Author:  Emma Holly

Source: Bought/Nookbook

Self-made billionaires Zane and Trey have been a club of two since they were eighteen. They’ve done everything together: play football, fall in love, even get smacked around by their dads. The only thing they haven’t tried is seducing the same woman. Rebecca learned early on not to trust anyone. She raised her brothers by herself—with no adult being the wiser. Her knack for cooking kept a roof over the twins’ heads. Now she’s damned if it won’t pay their way through Harvard as well. Add in running Trey’s latest restaurant, and her plate is way too full for romance. That’s an attitude the bad boys intend to change. Zane and Trey have set their sights on the sexy chef. When their hearts enter the equation and they both fall for her, this committed twosome faces their hardest test of all! Adult-content rating: This book contains content considered unsuitable for young readers 17 and under, and which may be offensive to some readers of all ages.

My Review

 Emma Holly did a great job on the creation of the "Bad Boys Club".  The owners were amazing each with their own difficulties to get past.  No man should be without flaws though sometimes I think Channing Tatum is.  Trey grew up being taught that sex was not something good Christian people did, while Zane has a problem letting people see the him that loves his partner in the business.

Then there is Rebecca, the girl who gave up he won life to raise he younger brothers at sixteen.  This is something that shocked me, though you do see things like this on Lifetime Movie Network where teenagers raise their younger siblings while avoiding the law that would put them in foster care.  I loved Rebecca, she is very head strong, and I like these female characters that have worked hard for everything they have got and do not want a man to come in an ruin it all.  Though Rebecca is very attracted to Trey to begin with because she wants to work at his new restaurant she does not want to get involved with him, harder than it looks for her and for him.  But Zane on the other hand who is a "silent" partner is a lot easier to get involved with but harder to trust.

But will this couple make it when you add into the mix a jealous on/off girlfriend of Zane's who does not like the fact that she has believed him to be proposing and instead he is sleeping with not only Rebecca but also Trey even though they have been going out and being seen with each other?  I will admit I love my romance/erotica to have a little bit of a twist, I do not like it to only be just about the romance.  I like to see some internal struggle as well as some outside conflict and Emma Holly has brought it full force with these two.

My Rating  A+

Review: The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst

Title:  The Marriage Bargain
Author:  Jennifer Probst
Source:  E-book Copy won in Giveaway via author, but I also own 1 copy which you can still win until 1/24/13

A marriage in name only...
To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner, Alexa Maria McKenzie, casts a love spell. But she never planned on conjuring up her best friend's older brother—the powerful man who once shattered her heart.
Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn’t believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father’s corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister’s childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he offers Alexa a bold proposition.
A marriage in name only with certain rules: avoid entanglement. Keep things all business. Do not fall in love. The arrangement is only for a year so the rules shouldn’t be that hard to follow, right?
Except fate has a way of upsetting the best-laid plans…

Alexa needs the money to save her family home.
Nick needs a wife so that he can keep his uncle's company under the terms of the will.
So Maggie has the solution fro them both.

Maggie is Alexa's best friend, so when she comes to visit to find Alexa casting a love spell for the perfect man she sees the solution to both Alexa's money problem and Nick's wife needs.  The only thing these two have very different ideas of what the perfect spouse is.  Compromise becomes the thing between two of them, not that there is anything easy about this.  They are both set in their ways.  Alexa is independent and head strong, and that means doing things that will aggravate Nick.

Can these two reach the ultimate compromise and make their marriage work on more than paper, or will the lines of trust never be crossed?

I love this story and I really loved the antics of Alexa when Nick made her mad.  They made me laugh many times, bringing home all the dogs from the shelter and buying a tank full of fish to give is one fish company were just great (and something I would think about doing).  Then there is the chemistry between Nick and Alexa and it was HOT.

The list that these two have are great so I think we need to compare the two and see the differences.
Alexa's List (Go read the book for Maggies Opinions on Everything)
1.  A Mets Fan
2.  Loves Books arts and Poetry
3.  Believes in Monogamy
4.  Wants Children
5.  Knows how to Communicate with a woman
6.  Loves animals
7.  Has a Moral Code of Ethics and Believes in Honesty
8.  A Good Lover
9.  Has a Strong Sense of Family
10.  Needs $150,000 available cash

Nick's List
1.  A woman who does not love me
2.  A woman I do not desire to Sleep with
3.  A woman who does not have a big family
4.  A woman who does not have any animals
5.  A woman who does not want any children
6.  A woman who has an independent career
7.  A woman who will view the relationship as a business venture
8.  A woman who is not overly emotional or impulsive
9.  A woman I can trust

Just looking at the two separate lists you know these two together are going to be great.

So I want to say that this book needs to go on many romance lovers MUST READ list if they have not already read it.


MY RATING: A+

Review: Master of Submission by Jan Bowles

Title: Maser of Submission
Author: Jan Bowles
Source: Amazon.com Kindle

Thirty-year-old English lawyer Emma Parkes believes Club Submission holds the key to her best friend's disappearance. Well out of her comfort zone, Emma's eyes are opened wide when she observes the Masters of Submission at work. They're so confident and sexually arousing—especially beautiful blue-eyed Master Zane.

Submission member and Dom Zane Anders frequently enjoys all the club has to offer. The wealthy, forty-year-old diamond importer has everything he could possibly need—everything except for love. A natural dominant, he's not looking for a permanent submissive in his life. But perhaps he'll make an exception for the stunning lawyer from London.

When Club Submission is plunged into a high-profile murder investigation, its very existence is put in jeopardy.

Can Emma unlock the truth, or will the devastatingly handsome Zane Anders, a Master of Submission, unlock her deepest sexual desires, instead?

MY REVIEW :

For straight-laced English woman Emma, Club Submission is really the last place she would have ever went but it might just have led her on the adventure of a lifetime while looking for her best Chloe.  With just e-mails exchanged with one "Orion" Emma is lost in the last place she knew Chloe to have gone. 

Master Zane Anders was easily drawn to the blonde that looked as if she had never been into a BDSM club before, and knew that breaking her into the scene would be something he would thoroughly enjoy doing.  And when she follows him home he is even more shocked but mostly because he thinks she is a reporter trying to get a story on the club and its members not that she is looking for her missing friend who she just "knows" something has happened too.  Next thing he knows is he is being questioned about his relationship to member "Giselle" who is actually Emma's friend Chloe. 

Can the mystery of Chloe Watts be solved before the Strong brothers have to close Club Submission for good since the police think the club has everything to do with the disappearance. 

Personally I have fallen in love with this series with just the first book and I have instantly added the other books to my Kindle Wish List.  But I have a feeling I will be buying them before I get them gifted to me.  I am looking forward to reading the next books in the series as well as other books by Jan Bowles that I own or put on my wish list


Rating: A



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