A Week to be Wild by JC Harroway

Harlequin DARE, a new romance series featuring strong, independent women and sizzling hot heroes. Harlequin DARE stories push the boundaries of sexual explicitness while keeping the focus on the developing romantic relationship.

Libby Noble is done with men who live on the edge, but sexy British billionaire Alex coaxes her out of her comfort zone—professionally and very personally! She’ll agree to play his game…but only by her rules!

I don’t even remember the last time that I read a Mills & Boon book – but I’d make a guess of it having been 20plus years ago. Wow, they’ve changed, haven’t they!

But the basics are the same really in all “romance” stories and this is no different. Yes, the female is a strong, modern woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid of asking, or demanding it.

The story is actually gripping. Libby and Alex meet at a conference and Libby is attracted to Alex immediately but she has given men a wide birth for about 3 years. However, Libby agrees to a no strings week of crazy monkey sex with Alex with the plan of going back to her usual life and business in America once it’s all over and done with.

There are parts in the story that are quite hot and sexually explicit. Not quite 50 shades graphic but certainly not as tame as the Mills & Boon’s of the past.

I was pleasantly surprised but I honestly don’t think I’d read further from the Dare series. Purely because I still felt that there was something lacking in the sexual descriptions. This though is more to do with me than the actual book.

I don’t doubt that this is going to fly off the shelves.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

A Lady Out of Time (book 1) by Caroline Hanson

Sent back in time to Victorian England to stop the invention of a deadly weapon, Helen Foster knows the job looks too easy: All she has to do is go to an auction, buy the weapon plans, destroy them, and she’ll save millions of people back in her own time. And even if she spends the rest of her life as a spinster stuck in the English countryside with a plethora of cats, changing the future is worth it.

If my bloody job didn’t keep getting in my way, I would have happily finished this book in one sitting.

This book begins in 2089 when we are introduced to Helen Foster. World War 2 still has not ended. And now Helen needs to travel back to victorian England to attend an auction in order to stop the blueprints for a super weapon ending up in the wrong hands.

The time travel part of this plan is the easy part. Unfortunately, the difficult part is the fact that Helen can’t take anything with her as she travels to the past. No possessions, which means no money and certainly no clothes. So the plan is for Helen to travel back in time and make contact with a Duke who she will then blackmail for money which needs to be enough for Helen to be able to afford to win the auction, clothe herself, find somewhere to live and then live out the rest of her days in comfort because you see, this is a one – way trip.

I’ve given this book 4 stars because I really enjoyed it. Enjoyed it despite the huge amount of errors. Why were so many mistakes allowed to be published? I’m talking about silly things, like us (English) having sidewalks and the such like . . . just too many Americanisms for a book that was set in England.

I will be reading part two of this book very soon.