Book Review: Forbidden To Want by JC Harroway

Forbidden To Want (Mills & Boon Date) is written by JC Harroway and is the first in the Billionaire Bachelors mini series.  

Mia Abbott is the strong willed, independent but emotionally scarred heroine. As a consequence of her past she is a total commitment phobe. Kit Faulkner is the tragically widowed handsome billionaire who is struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife.  Just like Mia he is emotionally scarred.  Kit’s personal assistant has just resign due to Kit’s obnoxious behaviour, so when Kit’s brother introduces him to Mia he assumes she is potentially his new assistant.  She isn’t. She is there to produce a short promotional film.  There is definitely chemistry between the pair but due to their respective emotional baggage a relationship is definitely not on the cards, their one rule is no romance, but they find a one night stand isn’t enough. Can they overcome their issues and make a relationship that lasts? 

A novel that is charged with lust, sex and romance. A great read for a few hours of escapism as the main characters travel through a journey of angst, highly charged sexual chemistry, sex and a refusal to accept that a relationship might not be that bad! This book reveals how the past has the potential to shape the future unless that person is prepared to challenge and question it. I enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the others in the series. 

I received this book via Netgalley and Mills and Boon in exchange for a honest review. I am a #MillsAndBoonInsider #netgalley

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Book Review: A Week To Be Wild by JC Harroway &Dare, a new series by Mills & Boon

  

Dare is a new imprint published by Mills and Boon.  Launching in January 2018, the books are "erotically charged", "sexually explicit" and "passionate".  The hero and heroine have a powerful sexually charged emotional connection.  Alpha Males are the heroes who can be anything from CEO billionaires to gritty heroes/anti-heroes.  The heroines are independent, fun, fearless and empowered.  They do not need a man in their lives, he is just an enjoyable extra!  The stories are contemporary, with real life challenges and situations.  The settings can be anywhere from London, the Amalfi Coast to the Caribbean.    A new Dare novel is released every two weeks.

A Week To Be Wild was released on the 25 January 2018 and is currently 99p (normally £3.99) to be read on either on Kindle or the Bluefire app. The Bluefire app is now used to read books purchased via the Mills & Boon website.  Alex Lancaster is the sexy, adrenaline junkie, thrill seeking British billionaire.  Libby Noble is a successful marketing guru who has sworn off men after a romance soured. Alex wants Lobby to help him establish a disability charity in memory of his sister.  The charity is to provide employment opportunities and help those who need it get the most out of life.  Although Libby loves and works great n America she agrees to travel to the UK for a few days to help set the new charity up.  There is a strong physical attraction  from the monent they meet.  A few days morphe in to a week - hence the title of the novel. Alex persuades Libby to agree to an uncomplicated week of hot, no strings sex.  Problems arise when other feelings start to develop between the pair and Libby decides to bolt back to the US.


The book and presumably the whole Dare series is certainly more graphic, explicitly sexy and certainly steamy in places! I am think if I still worked in a book shop I would put them in between Blace Lace books and Mills &Boon Modern as they try to combine the two genres. I thought this novel was just okay.  There were a lot of themes in this book - both main characters had emotional baggage they had to work through, the disability angle showed the problems disabled people face in all areas of their lives, how this was impacts upon their families and also pushes the boundaries in terms of  how explicit and graphic the sex scenes will be.  I struggled to finish the book.  I found bed it hard to connect with the characters and I found the dialogue between Libby and Alex to be stilted and lacking emotion.  The second half of the book was easier to get through.  The characters were more developed as their back stories and emotional baggage was brought to the fore.  It will be interesting to seee how M&B develop this series and how it meshes with their other series. 

I received this book via Netgalley and Mills and Boon in exchange for a honest review,  I am a #MillsandBooninsider. #NetGalley #AWeekToBeWild

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