Every now and then a series book just hits the spot…
Have Me by Jo Leigh (HB 671)
(Contemporary Series) 8/24/12
Grade: 4
When Rebecca Thorpe is set up with Jake Donnelly, she’s only looking for a one night stand. Their lives are just too different – she’s a socialite who runs a family foundation, and he’s a former police officer who’s fixing up his father’s house while figuring out the rest of his life. But after they’ve spent some time together, they find out they have more in common than they might have thought… even enough to work out their differences.
I normally don’t like Blaze books, because they focus too much on the sex and not enough on the relationship. But this one had a good combination of both. It was certainly hot, with a lot of sexual tension, but it also dealt with a lot of real issues of class differences and how to deal with them – something you don’t often see in series romances. There were some flaws, especially the ending which seemed cut off in the middle, but overall this was definitely worth reading.
It can be frustrating when so many go authors write for Blaze and other super-sexy series lines, because so often those books focus on sex above everything else. But this one at least tried to combine that with more depth – even if I would have preferred one or two fewer love scenes and one or two more emotional scenes.
Karen Wheless
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