Publisher: Entangled Brazen

Review: One Night of Scandal by Elle Kennedy

Posted February 10, 2022 by Holly in Reviews | 2 Comments

Review: One Night of Scandal by Elle KennedyReviewer: Holly
One Night of Scandal by Elle Kennedy
Series: After Hours #2
Also in this series: One Night of Sin
Publisher: Entangled, Entangled Brazen
Publication Date: September 8, 2014
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
Point-of-View: Alternating Third
Cliffhanger: View Spoiler »
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 230
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three-half-stars
Series Rating: four-stars


A sexy category romance from Entangled's Brazen imprint...

The wrong man never felt so right...

Ex-fighter Reed Miller has been secretly lusting over his best friend’s girl for months, but he refuses to jeopardize a friendship over a woman—especially one who doesn’t like him all that much. Now that Darcy’s on the market again, it’s even more imperative to stick to his strict hands-off policy. But the sizzling attraction between them is too powerful to ignore, and once he’s had a taste of her…all bets are off.

Darcy Grant is tired of walking the straight and narrow path. She’s on the hunt for passion, and there’s no denying Reed is just the man to give it to her. Although she has no interest in dating a bad boy, and certainly not her ex’s best friend, it’s impossible not to melt beneath Reed’s skillful touch. Now it’s just a matter of setting a few ground rules—and hoping her rule-breaking, sweet-talking bad boy agrees to follow them. But if she lets Reed into her bed, does she stand a chance of keeping him out of her heart?

One Night of Scandal (After Hours #2) by Elle Kennedy features Reed, one of the owners of the club. It was obvious to everyone in One Night of Sin that Reed had a thing for his best friend AJ’s girl, Darcy. I was curious to see how that would play out here.

Reed was immediately attracted to Darcy when he met her, which was really unfortunate since she was dating his best friend and business partner, AJ, at the time. He knew the only way to protect himself was to keep distance between them. When he discovers her out with another guy one night he loses his shit..until he realizes she and AJ broke up. He knows he can’t date his best friend’s ex, but when AJ asks him to step in and lead a self-defense class at the school where Darcy teaches, he knows he’s in big trouble.

Darcy doesn’t understand why Reed is such a jerk to her, until the share a passionate kiss and the truth comes out. She and AJ realized pretty quickly that they were great friends without any chemistry, but it still seems wrong to date one of his best friends. Plus, she doesn’t think Reed is the type to commit to a relationship and she isn’t looking to get played. The passion she was missing with AJ? Yeah, she found it big time with Reed. Now if she can just keep from falling in love with him everything will be just fine…

I really felt the chemistry between Reed and Darcy. I liked that they didn’t try to hide it (for long) and they were pretty upfront about things with AJ. AJ definitely deserved sainthood for his reaction. I didn’t love the additional conflict of Darcy thinking Reed was only good for a fling and the misunderstanding at the end was a bit contrived. Reed was good to Darcy from the start, so she had no reason to keep pushing him away.

Overall this was a good story, though. I liked Darcy and Reed together, I just wish they’d communicated better.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

One Night of Sin

three-half-stars


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Review: One Night of Sin by Elle Kennedy

Posted February 8, 2022 by Holly in Reviews | 0 Comments

Review: One Night of Sin by Elle KennedyReviewer: Holly
One Night of Sin by Elle Kennedy
Series: After Hours #1
Also in this series: One Night of Scandal
Publisher: Entangled, Entangled Brazen
Publication Date: August 4, 2014
Format: eBook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Point-of-View: Alternating Third
Cliffhanger: View Spoiler »
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 162
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three-half-stars
Series Rating: four-stars

A sexy category romance novella from Entangled’s Brazen imprint…

Sometimes it’s good to be bad…

When it comes to sex, good girl Skyler Thompson always plays it safe, choosing stable and sedate over wild and thrilling. She doesn’t do one-night-stands, but one look at sinfully sexy Gage Holt and she’s willing to reconsider. He makes her want to be bad for once in her life, and she’s prepared to take what she wants.

Danger follows former MMA fighter Gage Holt like a shadow. Despite his successes as part owner of Sin, an exclusive nightclub in Boston, Gage can’t risk getting involved with a woman, especially one as sweet as Skyler. Still, he can’t resist a taste—and it’s so damn good he has to see her again.

As addicted as he is to her, Gage knows there’s no future for him and Skyler—not with his past lurking in the dark corners of an MMA cage. But Skylar’s tougher than she looks, and she’s ready to fight for her man.

One Night of Sin (After Hours #1) by Elle Kennedy was available on KU in both digital and audio, so I decided to give it a try. The narrator didn’t work for me so I ended up reading it.

Skylar is on a bad first date in the club where Gage is part owner when they run into each other in a back alley. He has things going down in his life that stop him from wanting a relationship, but when Skylar propositions him he can’t say no…even though he knows she’s too much of a good-girl for him.

Skylar is tired of playing it safe. She wants Gage and she isn’t afraid to go after him. After she shares the hottest encounter of her life with him, she knows she has to go back to the club. They start seeing each other, but Gage is careful to keep it casual..until it’s not.

This was a quick, light read. I enjoyed the story and the romance. I really liked how upfront and honest Skyler was. She called Gage on his crap and didn’t let him get away with ghosting her. She was great. Gage needed someone to call him on his crap.

I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

Rating: 3.75 out of 5

One Night of Sin

three-half-stars


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Review: Hold Me Down Hard by Cathryn Fox

Posted June 19, 2013 by Rowena in Reviews | 0 Comments

Review: Hold Me Down Hard by Cathryn FoxReviewer: Rowena
Hold Me Down Hard (Breaking the Rules, #1) by Cathryn Fox
Series: Breaking the Rules #1
Also in this series: Hold Me Down Hard (Breaking the Rules #1)
Publisher: Entangled, Entangled Brazen
Publication Date: May 13th 2013
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 51
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four-stars
Series Rating: four-stars

When Eden Carver, Iowa farm girl turned NY actress, decides to seduce the sexy cop next door, she begins to wonder if she’s bitten off more than she can chew.

The last thing Officer Jay Bennett wants is to cross a line with the sweet and innocent country girl—no matter how much he’d like to help himself to a nibble. Not only are they in the friendship zone, a naïve girl like Eden doesn’t belong in his dangerous world.

But when she asks him to help her rehearse lines, and things go from simmer to boil, he finds himself doing the one thing he swore he’d never do. He knows he needs to walk away from temptation, but when sweet little Eden bites back, it tilts his world on its axis. Because biting back changes everything.

When I first requested this book for review, I wasn’t expecting it to be so short. But it’s a short story and with short stories, they either leave you wanting more or you’re happy with it. With this book, I was happy with it. It was a cute story about two neighbors who are good friends that come to love the hell out of each other but don’t know how to broach the topic since they’re both been firmly, friend-zoned.

Eden is an actress from Iowa who has the hots for her best friend/next door neighbor, Jay. Jay is a cop and he’s trying his damndest to keep things platonic between him and Eden because his world is filled with danger and he doesn’t want to subject Eden to all of that. At the same time, he won’t give up his dangerous job or world because of reasons that are his own. But damn does he want Eden.

Their coming together story was too cute for words. Eden wants to be more than friends with Jay and with the help of her friends, she finds out a way to make that dream, a reality and the way she went about it was cute and funny. Jay was a total stud and I ate him up.

This was a great, quick read for those times when you don’t have the time or energy to invest in a drawn out drama of a book. It was enjoyable. I will definitely be checking out more from this author in the future.

Grade: 4 out of 5

This book is available from Entangled Flirts. You can buy it here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher for an honest review.

four-stars


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