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My Review:

This was an amusing and satisfying read that was laced together with humor, delectable steam, and surprisingly poignant inner musings. The characters were well-detailed with authentic quirks, flaws, and well-honed banter and wit. Exactly what I’ve come to expect from this crafty author and the Smartypants franchise.

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What’s the best way to stand beside a man I wouldn’t spit on if he was burning alive?

I would’ve rather massaged a porcupine than talked to him.

Getting relationship advice from him is about as smart as taking a bath with a toaster.

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I have a new favorite author! I gleefully hummed and wiggled in my chair as I savored this delightfully amusing and witty tale. Perusing this one was so much fun! The writing style was well-paced with the perfect combination of sass and sizzle wrapped in generous lashings of clever snark and razor-sharp banter. I need more of this in my life.

The Billionaire’s Ride
(Falling For A London Billionaire Book 1) 
by Mandy Michaels

He’s a bad boy on a motorcycle hiding his billionaire status behind his fashion photographer gig. Every woman wants him. But the most gorgeous man in London only wants me . . .

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…the idea of sleeping with one woman for the rest of my life feels just short of castration.

I drop my shoulders and feel like a deflating balloon making a sad little squeal.

“Did you say your drunk song?” I shrug. “Yeah, sometimes when I have too much whiskey, I start singing about Lola and Tony. Then I deny it in the morning over aspirin and a tall glass of water.”

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Ignore the cheesy title, this was a delightfully scintillating and humorous tale that held my attention and entertained me from beginning to end. The characters were enticing, clever, and fun loving for the most part. The storyline was breezy, amusing, and breathtakingly salacious with just a bit of angst. Drew was a wealthy playboy and Kate was a lingerie designer whose business was circling the drain. They had an instant, scalding hot, and libidinous chemistry; even losing themselves in public, in Hyde Park, in the rain, wow. I will think of them and smile fondly every time I hear Copacabana.

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I feel like a complicated Lego structure that’s been knocked to the floor. I’m trying to find all the pieces and reassemble them at light speed, and it’s going about as well as you’d think.

If we’re going to make stupid decisions, we’re going to make them worthwhile.

It’s easier to fall back into familiar patterns when you’re in the place where those patterns got familiar. It took years for me to feel like leaving was a helpful problem- solving tool instead of an admission that I couldn’t handle being around my old life.

You can’t stare at her with your tongue out like a cartoon skunk if you want to keep whatever this is a secret.

I have the brief certainty that no one else has felt this way in the history of the world. How could they? If everyone felt like this, the earth would explode.

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This was a fun and sexy read with sensual scenes that were volcanic on the heat register and may have left scorch marks on my Kindle. I was gasping and wiping sweat from my brow lest it fall into my eyes and hamper my rapt perusal of this divinely penned tale.

I adored these characters and wanted all the best for them as they were chronically flawed yet deeply endearing. Even though Javi was a total hot mess, he was sincerely trying. The writing was as tenderly insightful and poignant as it was cleverly amusing and witty. Roxie Noir was already a definite and well-established favorite among my listings, but she has bested herself with this one.

While laced together with sarcastic humor – my favorite kind – this was an action-packed, complicated, gritty, and violent tale with kingpins, drug and sex traffickers, killers, murders, prison beatings, bloodletting, and corruption on various levels. I adore the biting snark and clever wit of MO Mack, but I wanted to give her Justine/Emily a few adjustments to her colon with my trusty crocs for her wishy-washy indecision. She seems to attract trouble and violent men like a compass finding north.

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No fireworks had ever gone off in my body before, but today was clearly my Fourth of July… it felt so perfect I’d have liked to freeze- frame the moment, keep it to take out and remember when life dealt more crap cards my way.

I’d wanted to eat him up and then have seconds.

…your cheeks are the color pink called I Got Me Some.

It was such an amazing daydream that I dreamed it twice.

Maverick eyed Ranger as if he’d suggested we pay a visit to hell and take Satan some sweet tea.

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I am not a paranormal reader but I giggled-snorted with glee and bounced in my chair with avid delight as I read this smirk-worthy and bewitchingly irreverent tale. The Boone’s are not like any werewolves I’ve ever stumbled across.

This was my first exposure to the clever wit and highly amusing word skills of Anne Marsh, and I curse my slothful ways for not jumping on her bandwagon before. I will definitely be haunting her listing for more of this highly entertaining series.

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They probably had a money vault somewhere Scrooge McDuck wanted to swim in.

My brother guarded himself like he was an illegal state secret and all other humans were whistleblowers.

You were unhinged on the phone when you called that night. Ranting about how his attractiveness should be against the law. I couldn’t take you seriously until I saw it in person.

Incompetence was everywhere. EVERYWHERE! It was one of the constants in life: death, taxes, change, cockroaches, and incompetence.

I swear, I will go to girl jail for this if you ever reveal me as a source…

Everyone here had been checking him out since he’d walked in. If he’d been a book in a library, he’d have a yearlong waitlist.

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Reading a Penny Reid novel is something I always look forward to with great anticipation, so much so, I have tried to use her tales as a reward for good behavior. But as I can’t resist the allure of her delightful missives and appear to be lacking in self-restraint when her oddly consuming character dynamics are concerned, I will read her clever arrangements of words even if I’ve been naughty. Her witty tales are smirk-worthy amusing, sizzling hot, and deeply insightful while thoughtfully written. She has mad word voodoo that sucks me into an all-consuming vortex populated with authentic, complex, and compelling characters. Her latest effort is her best work yet and kept me tethered to my Kindle late into the night.

Linc Salinger and I have nothing in common. He’s a smooth PR executive; I’m his disciplined office rival.