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Summary: fair read
Review: I have to agree with sealsparrow. While the writing and story wasn't awful, I got turned off when a moment after the boss indicated he was attracted to her, he was hiking up her skirt and they were going at it on his desk. And how many books do we have to keep reading where the female character ends up pregnant? Yeah, that will keep them together! If you are looking for the great romance novel, look elsewhere. But if you are just looking to take up a few hours one afternoon, not awful
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Summary: SEXY!!!!
Review: Lila Maxwell is falling in love with her gorgeous boss Nicholas Camden. In the midst of a possible hostile takeover at Colette Inc their passion explodes on the executive desk.
Lila's love & devotion for Nick are true but Nick's issues from his past prevents him from having a committed & lasting relationship now....regardless of how much he desperately desires Lila.
What a sexy story! The passion & conflict between this couple makes for a fantastic page turner. It is the second book in a mini series 20 Amber Court which I found very satisfying.
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Summary: Kind of cold
Review: I had real trouble with this book. I really love boss-secretary stories, but this one wasn't so great. Here is why: The story starts out with the heroine, a secretary, thinking to herself that she likes her boss a lot, but there can never be anything between them. She also thinks about the fact that she almost kissed her boss once recently and it can't happen again. Next scene, the hero, her boss, drives by her as she is walking to work and stops and offers her a ride. She refuses because he is flirting with her. Then he says, well, I need to talk to you about work, so she thinks, OK, and gets in, but then he flirts again (the dynamic is strange). After that, nothing more happens between them until, at the end of the day, presumably everyone is gone, and they start kissing in his office with the door unlocked. Then, with almost no buildup at all, wham, bam, they are having unprotected sex on the boss's desk. I am not a prude, in fact, I really like sexy romances. But this did not feel sexy to me. It felt cold and callous. I didn't like or respect either of the partners of this unloving act. Second big problem: after pages and pages of thinking and thinking at the beginning of the book, we get one little scene of action of the wham-bam sex. After that, we get more pages and pages of thinking about how messed up this sex was, she may be pregnant, he still misses his dead wife, and so on. The book doesn't get much better after that, more musing and hair-tearing angst. So what would I want instead? First, more action, less thinking (it gets boring having the story told to you through thinking). Second, let the hero and heroine feel something for each other besides lust before they jump on each other, like respect and even friendship. Third, a less depressed and frozen hero, a less fearful and anxious heroine--they both come off like they need counseling.
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Summary: :|
Review: Nick Camden does not believe in marriage or love. He has devoted his life to his work and has never been tempted to change his lifestyle. Well, not until he starts looking at his secretary Lila Maxwell as more than just his secretary. Nick is sure that what he is feeling is simply lust and not love, but he is also aware that Lila is looking for forever. Nick knows that he should walk away now, but he can't. Lila is a forever type of person. Her past makes her very aware of what other people think about her and she is determined to have a clean reputation. This could be problematic if she wants to have a relationship with Nick, because she does not want anyone to think badly of her for being involved with the boss. Nick and Lila both come with a lot of baggage. At one point in the story I thought, "enough all ready". I was tired of seeing them drag their feet, because both of them were trying to come up with excuses to break up, when they both wanted to be together. There was a big point made about the company that they work for being in danger of a hostile takeover, but we never find out what happens, or how it affects the characters. I hate to write a negative review, but in this case I had to. Besides reading about their pasts, and all of the reasons that they should not be together I found very little else that happened in this book.
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Summary: Steamy! -- Highly recommended
Review: Two years ago, Nicholas Caden's wife died from cancer. Their relationship had never contained the kind of passion that curled his toes anyway, so his vow to never marry again seems logical. Nick throws himself into his work, instead, devoting long hours to making Colette, Inc. a success. But now the company risks a hostile takeover, and he risks unemployment. Suddenly the only thing in his world that feels solid is his administrative assistant Lila Maxwell. Even if he's not a forever kind of guy, Lila offers life, and he wants to share it, if only for a while. Lila left behind sunny Florida for Indiana for a chance to start over, without rumor dogging her every move. She has a wonderful apartment at Amber Court, a job she loves, and a boss to die for. But when Nick suddenly begins to look at her as if she's a scrumptious dessert, and her job is threatened by the take over, life becomes very unstable. A steamy encounter of Nick's desk leaves her reeling with emotional intensity of their lovemaking and a possible pregnancy. Now she wants to be the one to teach him to trust his heart. But the question remains as to the damage she may receive to her own heart. I admit to being a bit torn about reviewing SOME KIND OF INCREDIBLE, simply because this is the era of political correctness. Most corporations forbid relationships between a VP and his administrative assistant simply because he's the boss and holds unfair advantage over his employee. Fears of sexual harassment lawsuits rule our era. Indeed, at one point the hero briefly entertains and rejects the impulse to fire his admin simply to make his life simpler after he's incurred incredible emotional complications. Furthermore, the heroine worries throughout the book about her reputation if anyone learns she's dating the boss. Nevertheless, this is the substance of genre fiction, and fantasy shouldn't be ruled out because it is politically incorrect. And author Katherine Garbera is a master of the forbidden encounter on company property, as she demonstrates in SOME KIND OF INCREDIBLE. Highly recommended.
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