Hopelessly Devoted

par Piper Sheldon (2021) SmartyPants Romance

Résumé : Skip has one goal: retrieve his romantically reckless best friend from Green Valley, Tennessee and get back to their normal life. Then Skip meets Jack. The handsome and caring stranger is just another distraction from his careful plans.

Jack has dealt with more than his fair share of troubled men and is done with letting his guard down. When he meets walking red flag, Skip, he knows he should run the opposite direction and ignore their chaotic attraction.

Only, fate seems to have other plans when they are stuck on a camping trip together. Jack and Skip are convinced they can put their attraction aside and focus on helping their friends.
One quick trip, one shared tent, what could possibly go wrong?


Pourquoi les romances les plus hot et sexy sont des novella qui ne font qu'une centaines de pages xD ? Pourquoi ???

Skip et Jack, on les croise dans les tomes précédents chacun de leur côté (le 1er dans le tome 3 juste avant et le 2e dans le tome 1). Alors que Sanders court après Roxie (The One That I Want), Skip le suit de mauvaise grâce, sûr qu'il devra réparer les pots cassés après le passage de cette tornade... Un soir dans un bar gay, il va faire une crise d'angoisse ; et Jack qui l'avait repéré de loin, va l'aider à passer ce mauvais moment. Puis les étincelles fusent, et ça se fini en bisous torrides dans dans la ruelle sombre.

Quelques jours plus tard, ils se retrouvent tous accompagnateurs d'un groupe d'adolescent pour une virée camping. Entre faire leur boulot et lutter contre leur attraction mutuelle, ils ne s'en sortent plus xD...

Piper Sheldon a un don pour rendre des scènes d'une sexitude pas possible, alors qu'il se passe pas grande chose xD. Le MM n'est pas forcément le genre vers lequel je vais aller, mais quand c'est aussi bien écrit, ça fait encore plus swooner que d'autres romances FM...

Seul regret de ne pas avoir eu un livre à part entière plutôt qu'une novella, mais quand on a un nouveau Piper Sheldon, on le prend ^^

Why are the hottest and sexiest romances, novellas that are only a hundred pages long xD ? Why ???

We've meet Skip and Jack in the previous books, each on their own (the 1st in Book 3 just before and the 2nd in Book 1). As Sanders runs after Roxie (The One That I Want), Skip reluctantly follows him, sure that he will have to mend the damage after the passage of the tornado... One evening in a gay bar, he is having an anxiety attack ; and Jack who had spotted him from afar, help him through this bad time. Then the sparks fly, and it ends up in hot kisses in a dark alley.

A few days later, they find themselves accompanying a group of teenagers for a camping trip. Between doing their job and fighting against their mutual attraction, they don't see the end of it...

Piper Sheldon has a knack for making very sexy scenes, when nothing much is going on xD. MM is not necessarily the genre I'm reading, but when it's this well written, it's even more swooning than other FM romances...

My only regret is not having had a full-fledged book rather than a novella, but when you have a new Piper Sheldon, you take it ^^

 

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Key Change

de Heidi Hutchinson (2021) Smartypants Romance

Résumé : Before Hannah was a 9-5 working, dinner making, homebody, she was Ashton James: a paparazzi-stalked pop star with more enemies than friends. These days she has one priority: keeping her sister safe and away from the public eye. Hannah was doing a great job, until the pesky little brother of an ex-fling discovers where she is, and wants her help launching his career.

Now she has to trust Johnny—whom she betrayed in more ways than one—to protect her whereabouts. Johnny may have an infuriating moral compass and the timing of a storybook hero, but is he immune to the temptation of revenge?

Johnny’s focus has always been his music business, and a bad influence like Hannah is the last thing he needs at work, or around his brother. But some things are too powerful to be stopped. For someone like Hannah, second chances—in life and in true love—don’t exist. She didn’t think so, at least.

Johnny is about to prove her wrong, and being wrong has never felt so right.


Ici nous avons une romance de deuxième chance avec deux héros qui ont chacun touché le fond avant de reconquérir leur vie pour en faire quelques chose de bien. Enfin ça c'est surtout du côté d'Hanna.

Hannah a été une rockstar surdouée de la musique, mais un scandale filmé a stoppé net sa carrière. 2 ans plus tard, Hannah a boulot un dans un SAV client par téléphone, c'est pas terrible mais ça l'aide à subvenir au besoin de sa jeune soeur dont elle a la garde. Sa sécurité passe avant tout, alors quand un jeune ado chante une de ses chansons dans le métro, la première réaction d'Hannah est de trouver qui il est et de lui proposer un pot-de-vin pour son silence. Grâce à son service de sécurité (Quinn et Alex huhuhu), elle arrive à savoir qui il est se pointe chez lui.

Mais là, quand la porte s'ouvre, c'est Johnny le grand-frère qui l'accueil. Et Johnny, lui aussi la connait... et Hannah ne semble pas se rappeler de lui. Il y a quelques années, il était musicien sur son premier album, ils ont eu une aventure, des promesses non tenues, il s'est fait remercier... Hannah ne se rappelle pas, car à cette époque elle était à moitié alcoolisée...

Bref, Johnny n'accepte pas le pot-de-vin, et par un concours de circonstance, va demander à Hannah de travailler avec lui dans son studio d'enregistrement sur l'album du nouveau rappeur du moment. Hannah va reprendre goût à la création musicale, Johnny va retomber amoureux. Ces deux là n'ont plus rien à se prouver, ils savent les erreurs qu'ils ont commis et se donnent une 2e chance parce que la 1ère s'est finie avant même de commencer.

Mention spéciale aux petits frère et soeur de nos héros qui se mêlent de la vie de leur aîné.e respectif ^^

Je pense que ça doit être hyper dur d'écrire sur la musique et fait imaginer au lecteur le talent des personnages. Autant, j'applaudis Heidi Hutchinson pour avoir très bien décrite son héroïne avec la musique dans son ADN, autant j'ai pas trouvé très crédible le fait qu'Hannah qui est un genre de Beyoncé/Lady Gaga, puisse passer à l'anonymat le plus complet (car même ses collègues de boulot de la reconnaissent pas...) mais bon c'est un détail xD

Here we have a second chance romance with two heroes who hit rock bottom before reclaiming their lives to do something good. Well, that's mostly the story of Hanna.

Hannah was a gifted music rockstar, but a filmed scandal brought her career to a halt. 2 years later, Hannah has a job in a customer after-sales service by telephone, it's not terrible but it helps her provide for her young sister, whom she has care for. Her safety comes first, so when a young teenager sings one of her songs in the subway, Hannah's first reaction is to find who he is and offer him a bribe for his silence. Thanks to her security team (Quinn and Alex huhuhu), she manages to find out who he is and shows up at his house.

But there, it is Johnny the big brother who welcomes her. Johnny knows her... and Hannah doesn't seem to remember him. A few years ago, he was a musician on her first album, they had an affair, some broken promises, he was fired... Hannah does not remember, because at that time she was half drunk most of the time...

In short, Johnny doesn't accept the bribe, and through a chain of events, will ask Hannah to work with him in his recording studio on the album of the new rapper of the moment. Hannah will regain a taste for musical creation, Johnny will fall in love again. These two have nothing more to prove to each other, they know the mistakes they made and give themselves a second chance because the first one ended before it could even start.

Special mention to the little brother and sister of our heroes who are involved in the life of their respective eldest ^^

I think it must be super hard to write about music and make the reader imagine the talent of the characters. As much, I applaud Heidi Hutchinson for having described her heroine very well with music in her DNA, but I did not find very credible the fact that Hannah who is like a Beyoncé/Lady Gaga, can go to being a nobody (because even her colleagues at work do not recognize her...) but hey it's a detail xD

 

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Forrest For The Trees

de Kilby Blades (2021) - SmartyPants Romance

Résumé : Forrest Winters isn’t just a federal fire marshal; he’s a thorn in Ranger Sierra Betts’s side. The way he swings his big axe, fixes her with his chameleon gray eyes, and talks about his jurisdiction has a way of breaking her concentration. He has a way of showing up everywhere he doesn’t belong, including Greenbrier Ranger Station. And he really needs to quit stealing her bacon bites.

When a series of suspicious fires, an underhanded co-worker, and a cagey Parks Police Chief threaten her job and the park itself, Sierra grudgingly agrees to partner with Forrest. Their side investigation may be her best shot at preventing the framing of an innocent man. But can his firefighting expertise and her detective skills lead them to the real arsonist before Forrest breaks her with his charm ?


Forrest et Sierra travaillent ensemble, lui est Fire Marshal (en gros c'est le chef du service qui enquête sur les incendies criminels, je sais même pas si on a un équivalent en France, bref) et elle est une Park Ranger, donc en été ils sont forcément amenés à se croiser, d'autant qu'il y a eu 3 incendies dans le parc en quelques semaines et qu'il n'y a toujours pas de suspect.

Pour Forrest, trouver le coupable est une question de bon sens pour la sécurité du parc. pour Sierra, trouver qui déclenche des feux dans sa section du parc sera en plus déterminant pour son avenir professionnel : certains de ses collègues cherchent à l'évincer d'une possible promotion pour leur bénéfice personnel, et en plus au détriment de l'enquête. Forrest et Sierra décident donc de mener cette enquête en toute discrétion, car visiblement ils sont les seuls à prendre la protection du parc au sérieux...

Plus ils avancent dans leur enquête, plus cela devient dangereux non seulement à cause du pyromane, mais aussi pour ce qu'ils sont arriver à représenter pour l'autre. Leur relation se base sur une admiration mutuelle : ils exercent tous les deux un métier-passion, des valeurs et une vision de la vie tournée dans le même sens. Leurs sentiments n'en seront que plus intense et plus fort.

Ce livre fait partie de mes préférés pour le moment, tant par l'intrigue que la romance.

Forrest and Sierra work together, he's the Fire Marshal and she's a Park Ranger, so in summer their path are crossing, especially since there have been 3 fires in the park in a few weeks and there is still no suspect.

For Forrest, finding the culprit is a matter of common sense for park safety. for Sierra, finding out who sets off these fires in her section of the park will also be decisive for her professional future : some of her colleagues seek to oust her from a possible promotion for their personal benefit, and to the detriment of the investigation. Forrest and Sierra therefore decide to conduct this investigation discreetly on their own, because they seem to be the only ones to take the protection of the park seriously...

The more they advance in their investigation, the more dangerous it becomes not only because of the arsonist, but also for what they have come to represent for each other. Their relationship is based on mutual admiration : both their jobs is a passion, their values ​​and a vision of life are the same. Their feelings will only be more intense and stronger.

This book is one of my favorites at the moment, both for the intrigue and the romance. 

 

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