Five Stars for Seducing the Baron

Seduced by the Baron by Amy Andrews
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This five star read is the fourth book in the Fairy Tales of New York series about four school friends. This is the Cinderella story.

Our heroine, Faith, is looking after her dad and the family pub, and feeling very left out as her three best friends have all found love. "A guy walks into a bar ..." sounds like a song. Our hero walks into the bar, on business, in jeans and a henley, wanting to set up a meet and greet with the owner. Faith turns him down, he persists and she agrees to a taste test. Oh my word, the taste test. He shows up in an expensive suit, and a tie to match his eyes. Oh, that tie. Fanning myself. Hot, hot hot. When he takes it off, and offers it to Faith, as a blindfold for the taste test, just wow!

This series ends with a wow! Thanks for the great series, and I hope they do more Fairy Tales of ... series. I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Goodreads review of Taming the Beast

Taming the Beast by Lucy King
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book three of the Fairy Tales of New York is based on Beauty and the Beast. The Beast is Zelda from book 2's brother, Seb. The beautiful heroine is Zelda's good friend Mercy. They have crossed paths twice before the story opens.
Mercy decides to force Seb to reconcile with Zelda, and beards the Beast in his lair. That quickly evolves to an affair...
she propositions him - he objects -
 "What? No. Yes. Wait What was he agreeing with - or not - again?" Hilarious. Loved it.
Seb thinks he is in control and dear Mercy runs rings around him!
There is one good friend of the Fairy Tales of New York left and I cannot wait to read her story. I got a complimentary copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Four stars for Tempting the Knight

Tempting the Knight by Heidi Rice
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the second in the Fairy Tales of New York series. To quote the dedication, it is based on a "bad girl supermodel Rapunzel". I liked this short format romance a lot.
Our hero Ty is a buttoned up Legal Aid lawyer that cannot figure out how in the world he got involved with the wild woman supermodel with all the hair and a friend of his sister no less. And Zelda , our princess of course, is a recovering alcoholic who cannot figure out what to do with a superhero. I love a romance where the hero and heroine have no reasons for the relationship to work, but they work at it and figure it out.
I look forward to reading the rest of the series. I got a complimentary copy form NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Fairy Tales of New York, Book One

Pursued by the Rogue by Kelly Hunter
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is book one in the Fairy Tales of New York series. I liked this romance a lot. It is based on the Ugly Duckling fairy tale. It is also a story about second chances.
I loved the hero, Finn. He is a world class musician who has always carried a torch for our ugly duckling Dawn. I thought it heart-warming how he didn't allow Dawn to push him away, in the midst of a huge health crisis. I thought it interesting how both these characters had a detailed bucket list. "Experiencing everything. You and me."
I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review. I look forward to reading more in this series.

Three stars for Adele Down's small town romance Lip Service

Lip Service by Adele Downs
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I liked this short and sweet romance. It is a small town romance, with a ghost. I do not usually do paranormal but this one worked fine.
I did feel like I got shortchanged in the backstory. I felt like it started in the middle of Jack and Legs's romance. I guess it was really more about the ghost's ill-fated romance than getting Jack and Legs together. It did resolve things and I did like that.
I received a complimentary copy in return for an honest review. I will probably pick up more romances by Adele Downs.

Three and a Half stars for One Night with the Tycoon

One Night with the Tycoon by Katherine Garbera
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars for One Night with the Tycoon. This is the third in the Whisky River series.
I really liked this story. Just missed that last star because the story got a bit fuzzy in the middle. I had to go back and reread a chapter because I couldn't figure out why our heroine was mad at the hero. I felt like the conflict was not explained well enough.
But I loved the characters, love the series. I loved that our heroine Juliette decided to go after a man who never has anything but one-night stands because, in her words, "knowing that he probably only wanted one night made her want more."
I look forward to reading more in this series. I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

Four Stars for Bride on the Run

Bride on the Run by Catherine Mann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the fourth novel in the Runaway Brides series. I liked it a lot.
The hero, Boone, was jilted in an earlier book in this series. He blames our heroine, Valerie, for the very public jilting. Turns out, she has a past, and certainly doesn't need the publicity that being involved with Boone would bring.
I expect there will be more in this series, or a closely related one. I Look forward to reading more in this series. I received a complementary copy from NetGalley, in return for an honest review.