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Summary: H-O-T
Review: Abigail "Abby" Coates knew her restaurant, The Coates Inn, would go out of business unless she did something soon. So when a handsome chef, Storm Dupré, offers to help she jumps at the chance! Storm wants to change the menu a bit and add an aphrodisiac menu that patrons won't be able to resist and come back for more! Abby quickly learns that Storm is not only awesome in the kitchen, but in bed as well. Storm introduces Abby to her erotic side! Abby takes to passion like a duck does to water. In fact, Abby is so close to Storm that she does not see that he is out to steal her restaurant out from under her very cute nose. **** HOT! HOT! HOT! Be warned, this is an Erotica Romance! So expect lots of steamy scenes. Oh, and those scenes will be the type that old "bodice rippers" are just too dainty to plunge into! Now do NOT go thinking "Erotica = XXX". You would be wrong. Unlike those types of movies/books, Erotica Romance is simply a romance with super hot love scenes. Yes, this book has a plot. So think "Modern Contemporary Romance + lots of interesting ways to make love". Keep your loved one close, Ladies. If this book does not heat up your blood, then you are officially dead. Author Emma Holly has created several interesting characters and placed them all in the Cape Cod area. Just like "real" restaurants, Abby must deal with the possibility of losing the business she so loves. Worse, how does one deal with finding out your lover is trying to stab you in the back? Great reading! Highly recommended! **** Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Summary: Emma Holly is definitely cooking!
Review: After Menage, I thought Ms. Holly could not possibly write another hot novel. Alas I was wrong, and I ain't afraid to admit it. Menage will always hold a special place in my heart but there is definitely room for a Storm ;o)
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Summary: A Home Run!
Review: Emma Holly has mastered writing skills that most of her colleagues haven't even heard about yet. She puts rounded, fully developed characters on the stage, equipped with reasonable, believable motivations, and then slowly stirs the pot.... Far from being cardboard, her characters ring true and actually develop over time in response to the action. And she knows how to write a sex scene that will get your juices flowing. Who could ask for anything more?
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Summary: Cookin' With Steam Heat!!
Review: Emma Holly's "Cooking Up A Storm" reminds me of the old adage, "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." Ms. Holly, one of the best romantica writers around, serves up a sensual treat of pure heat with this novel of haute cuisine and gourmet pleasure, likely to bring thrills to even the most jaded palate. However, if you prefer your romance reading to be a bit less explicit, you should look elsewhere.
Abby Coates, manager and part-owner of the Coates Inn Restaurant, needs a new chef and more customers if she is going to save her failing business. When her father became ill, Abby left a promising career and came home to Cape Cod to help him run the restaurant. He left the business to Abby and her sisters when he died, and took out a life insurance policy to be used for future investments in the enterprise. The money is not stretching far enough to meet payments and allow for necessary renovations. Bankruptcy seems inevitable. In a funk, Abby breaks up with her longtime boyfriend because, ultimately, there is no chemistry between them. And she places an advertisement for a chef in a trade paper.
Master Chef Storm Dupré sees Abby's ad along with a photograph of the property. He is motivated to move from LA to MA to apply for the position personally. With his talent and experience, he never doubts the job will be his. Dupré is tired of California and is drawn by the coastal New England setting and the inn's atmosphere. He plans to eventually buy Ms. Coates out and own the lovely seaside property and restaurant himself.
Chef Dupré claims to have a "secret weapon," an aphrodisiac menu Abby's patrons will find irresistible. After the job interview and immediate hire, Storm and his new boss find each other irresistible. For the first time in her life straight-arrow Abby becomes a sensualist, as well as a businesswoman. And she is tutored by a chef who excels at loving as much as he does at cooking.
This is an entertaining, erotic romp, with some engaging characters, including a 50-something artist/photographer, a funky waitress, and a trio of local men who are all Abby admirers. A steamy read & lots of fun!
JANA
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Summary: Best Black Lace book I've read...
Review: I have read just a few Black Lace books before this and didn't enjoy them. Not having read much erotic fiction, I wasn't sure if it was the specific books or the genre I didn't like. COOKING UP A STORM did something the other Black Lace books I read didn't do; it made me care about the characters and what happened to them. Not just Abby and Storm, but also the secondary characters, were likable and sympathetic and I wanted things to turn out well for them. This book convinced me that erotic fiction is not for me, that may seem strange because I'm giving the book a positive review, but in this case I know it's the genre, not the book. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to try this type of book or who already knows they like erotic fiction. This is a book with an interesting premise and great characters that are very easy to care about and root for.
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Summary: erotica-not
Review: I love a good sexy novel. In fact I like a good, explicit sexy novel. But this book is discusting! With graphic male and female homosexuality, group sex, and voyeurism this book would be hard core porn if it had pictures.
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Summary: My book is falling apart
Review: I love this book and have reread it so often that my copy is rather beaten up now. Without giving to much away (but really, you know there is going to be a happy ending, now don't ya), other reviewers are turned off by the multiple partners but what they illustrate is how even with "choices", how these two come to find how truly important the other is to them and how they are only for each other. Hot sex with rather endearing leads in Storm and Abby. What is more appealing than a truly hot looking, talented guy who overcomes a tragic past and as a kicker speaks French in bed? I'm ready to visit Montreal to see if I can find a Storm or my very own.
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Summary: Emma Holly Delivers
Review: I loved Emma Holly's second book as much as Menage! Some erotic novels just give you sex. Holly gives you romance. She really develops her characters and gives them personalities, not just a libido. She also knows how to steam up the page. She has a great balance of sex and romance. I am looking forward to her next novel.
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Summary: Top vote in erotica
Review: I read this book when it was orginally released and it is the one by which I measure all of my subsequent purchases of erotica. The story is excellent and the scences are hot. Simply, it is a wonderful book.
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Summary: No real plot-repetitive sex scenes
Review: I really did not like this book. It has a very "thin plot", actually the book is really just one sex scene after another. Just how many times can you write sex scenes in one book? About halfway through, this books become repetitive and boring. The male lead in the book is the only somewhat interesting character. This is because the author lets you glimpse briefly into his background. The female lead has sex with everybody; male, female, groups of people, people she doesn't like. All the while she is doing this she's mentally putting herself down for her behavior and telling herself how much she loves the male lead. Of course, the two leads decide they love each dearly (how that happened--- you're a better person than me if you can figure that one out). They do marry and I sure they'll live unfaithfully ever after. This is a book detailing sex acts. If thats what you're looking for you love this book. If your looking for a spicy romance book--This isn't it.
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