Romance is my favorite genre and lately I have been underwhelmed by so many of the romance books I've been reading. I picked up Limits because I thought it sounded interesting and different from what I had been reading. It was that. Millie has extreme anxiety and grew up in a less than loving home where support for her shyness was nonexistent. She is extremely smart and works in a hospital where she is doing groundbreaking research but is unable to speak up and claim her findings as her own. Pavlos works with her and can sense there is more to her than meets the eye. He is kind of a playboy and very much the life of the party. Can he make a difference in Millie's life? Can she accept that people want the best for her with no ulterior motives? This is a romance, so we know that everything will work out in the end. The story drew me in and I knocked it out in about a day. That being said, I do think the writing could have been improved with a little more editing. For example, the phrase "release a breath she didn't know she was holding" was used 4 times that I counted. I also couldn't understand how Pavlos could be so swoony one minute and so clueless the next. Even after months of being with her, he was still dumbfounded at times by her reluctance to engage in certain situations. I enjoyed the community of friends and Pavlos' family. I read this without knowing that it was the second book in a series. I liked this enough that I'm going to go back and check that one out. This was almost 4 stars but I settled on 3.5 in the end. ( )

I mostly liked this one. I've read so many romances that I always enjoy something different and this heroine with severe social anxiety was different. I really liked her but I wasn't so fond of the hero who, although he did some sweet things for her, never really rose to the level of a real hero for me. We didn't seem to really get to know him and I always suspected that he was using her. Which turned out to be true. The final climatic conflict was appalling and she forgave him like he'd only accidentally brushed up against her instead of having said what he did about her. He grovelled not at all. And it really should have taken another 100 pages for her to forgive him after severe grovelling and character growth. ( )

I don't know maybe it's me but this one didn't work for me.
It seemed overly dramatic, esp Kira.
The heroine suffers from extreme anxiety and that was interesting but her parents were awful, there was no half way mark with them they were thoroughly bad.
No intimate scenes other than the Hero and heroine.
Hero is charming and painted out to be a bit of a playboy but no details of his past.
Virgin heroine.
HEA.