Lori Matthews

Alex Morgan also known as heiress Alexandra Buchannan has been helping people retrieve their beloved belongings for years now as an Asset Repossession Specialist, but her handler, Leo, thinks it's time for them to retire. Alex believes he might be right when she is almost caught by security specialist, Mitch Callahan, during a job in Venice. Little does she know that she is going to run into Mitch again when she tries to repossess a car for her latest client. Mitch's security firm has been hired to protect the owner of proprietary technology in the field of facial recognition, who also currently has custody of the car. Alex tries to forget her attraction to Mitch, but he keeps showing up when she least expects it.

Break and Enter is a very entertaining beginning for the Callahan Security romantic suspense series. Alex and Mitch are likable characters, but even though we learn about their history, there isn't much emotional content to back up that information. There are moments in the story when the action and adventure are very exciting, but without thorough character development, the plot is a little repetitious and boring at times. Even though Alex and Mitch get their HEA by the end of the book, clearly the overarching mystery will continue in further entries in this series. Overall Break and Enter is an enjoyable romantic suspense romp filled with thrills and engaging scenes.… (altro)

Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox
Paranormal M - M dragon shifter romance. 1st book in the RELIC series.
Simon proudly considers himself a nerd as a scientist studying fossils. He would say he leads an uneventful life. Until the day a famous fossil is threatened and Simon is under protection from a pink Mohawk wearing dinosaur shifter!

Smashing series starter. So much fun with silly and absurd events that are sublime in entertainment value. A fast moving story where every dream of a paleontologist comes true. Dinosaur! Plus M - M (first time) romance.

🎧 I listened to an audiobook version narrated by Kirt Graves. The performance emphasizes the humor which made it enjoyable for me. It was a little difficult to tell whose POV it was as they traded, but each had enough of a different personality to determine it within a few sentences.
I listened to this at 1.5 for the best conversational speed.… (altro)

Updated*3.5-3.75 stars

I had the chance to receive a new copy of this from NetGalley that fixed the issues that I had with the e-copy I had originally gotten. Thank goodness. Whereas in that book I could hardly read it, I finally got to get into the story and was much better than I anticipated it. I had not read the previous books in this series and did not feel as if I was missing anything, other than the interest to see the previous characters in their own stories.

Enemies to lovers is a favorite trope of mine, so this book had that going for it. I enjoyed Gage and Dani but there was some spark missing. I wanted more. Even as great as the beginning of the story was somehow it fizzled a little. I am glad that I came back to the book and gave it another chance as it was enjoyable, It just had the promise to be so much more.

… (altro)