Lynn LaFleur

Smokin' Hot by Lynn LaFleur is a collection of three short love stories focusing on the same group of volunteer firefighters in a rural Texas town. Overall, I found little character development, superficial emotional connections between the H/h in most of the stories, rushed stories, and the sex scenes were very mechanical and boring. I think if the author had expanded the stories, worked on the feel of the stories, had a better plot, created more lust, longing, even steamier courtship, and left some of the sex scenes to the imagination ( vs the sex scenes step by step as they were written) the book would be greatly improved. I also think if the book was reduced to just two expanded stories or one main story with one or two couples finding their path through loves maze it would have been a more enjoyable read for me. I love hot sexy reads, but the sex has to be secondary to a good plot, with characters I can love, hate or believe in, none of which I found in this book.

I received this ARC courtesy of Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for a honest review. Overall a 2.75 red for me.
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3.5 Stars

Well, these three stories were certainly hot enough to need a fire hose to cool you down after reading. Each story was focused on a volunteer firefighter in Lanville, Texas. The first two had the alpha male taking charge of some seriously lucky ladies. The last was about two guys coming together and making some serious sparks. The bad thing about all three were the almost insta-love of each couple. Most falling madly in love within a week or so and they actually only spent a couple days out of that week together. This was the second anthology revolving around the firefighters and there are a lot of characters from the first anthology. So if you haven't read it, which I didn't, you might get a little confused among all the names. Worth taking an afternoon to read if you're looking for some hot erotica.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.… (altro)