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Summary: This book is hot,hot,hot....
Review: Three childhood friends (Lily, Cece and Serena )return to the small town of Ely where they all grew up together and find love and romance with three bad boys. The book mainly centers around the relationship of Lily, a divorcee and Billy, a NHL star who returns home every summer and has secretly lusted for the older Lily when she was a lifeguard in high school. Cece hooks up with Ely's biggest womanizer Zuber and Serena falls for the local Sheriff Frankie. I enjoyed the highs and lows of all three relationships although I found Serena just a bit annoying and childish. This was a great sexy read and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: RECKLESSLY and REGALLY BLONDE
Review: What could be more surprising than Susan Johnson kicking off her contemporary debut with a theme that departs from her usual historical style and screams chick-literature? Blonde Heat is an unabashed sexual outing for three childhood friends who find romance and a summer of love in the town of Elys - with Lily, the betrayed and divorced soap-opera actress fulfiling her fantasies with a NHL star hockey player Billy Bianchini. Her friends Cece and Serena seek passion in the arms of playboy Nicholas Zuber and sheriff Frank respectively. However love always don't come easy when Billy is ensnared by a tenacious enamored single mother who fawns over his parents and using her kid as an excuse to further her advances; Zuber can't change his frivolous ways in the face of business and Frank isn't sure that Serena can accept him as an equal partner with their deviant background...Sure, Blonde Heat is full of sizzling passionate scenes and is a breezy irreverent read filled with bitchy remarks and celebration of the women's camaderie. Jealousy, rage and dumb blonde vengeance are refreshingly detailed by Johnson. Yet one feels the lack of development in the characters' premise especially Lily in her angst of her marriage. Lily and Billy's romance could have been a poignant one but one gets the feeling that Susan Johnson intends to rush to the next carnal description. It is erotic and smoldering but Blonde Heat is a no-holds-barred reckless ride that lacks a bit of subtlety and redemption to strike gold.
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