Wild Love by Elsie Silver

Wild Love by Elsie Silver
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Time taken to read - in and out over 4 days

Pages - 455

Publisher -

Source - Bought

Blurb from Goodreads

She's been driving him wild for years.

The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild.

But mostly, the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her.

Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he's her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend's sister, Rosie Belmont.

After living in the city, Rosie came blasting back into town like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic. And one wide-eyed, desperate plea for a job is all it takes for Ford to hire her. He vows to keep her at arm's length. Tries to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her, verbal sparring is a type of foreplay―friction that soon turns to blistering heat.

Ford knows damn well he shouldn't cross this line. But shouldn't and can't are two very different things.

And the only thing he truly can't do is resist her.


My Review

Ford is minted and the worlds hottest billionaire I think they said, I don't even remember but he isn't into that at all. He only ever loved one woman and that was his bestie's wee sister who used to hang around with them growing up, Rosalie. Due to being sexually harassed at work and losing her job she heads back to their small town trying to get herself together and reevaluating everything in her life. She ends up bagging a job with Ford who is also dealing with a pre teen appearing in his life saying she is his daughter. It is all happening and of course tensions and feelings ramp up between Ford and Rosalie.

Firstly, Ford's wean, twelve years old, I actually really liked her, she is sharp, sarky, hard exterior and just trying to adjust to this new situation but she absolutely doesn't come across as twelve. She is really sharp, adulty and sure some pre teens can be but she just reads and vocalises far older. Her relationship with Rosalie was adorable and it was good she had someone she idolised and could lean on whilst Ford tried to figure out his place, role and how he should act.

Roselie and Ford, we get glimpses through Rosealie via her diary in the past so it was good to have those snippets, I do like a diary entry. I know some people will find the key thing cringe but I really liked that, I am a bit romantic potato though. The spicey stuff was a bit cringe and I did thing considering how the last job ended and the first contact like that with her and Ford was a bit oh, really, I mean I get it but I still gave it a side eye. Silver does do spicey scenes and body fluids so if you get embarrassed or a tad squeamish just an fyi. Did I like their relationship? Aye and she defo brought out a much more fun and playful side to him which was fun to read, overall 3.5/5 for us.

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No Mercy by Max Connor

No Mercy by Max Connor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Time taken to read - in and out over 6 days

Pages - 412

Publisher - HQ Stories

Source - ARC

Blurb from Goodreads

The old unit will reunite to complete one last mission in honour of their fallen comrade. But all she wants is revenge … When their old comrade, retired veteran and decorated Royal Marine Frankie Chapman, dies during a home invasion, the 11/06 club come back together to recover his stolen military medals. After they find out the medals have fallen into the hands of a wealthy billionaire who dabbles in human trafficking, they form a plan to steal the medals back – and Frankie’s daughter, Josie, wants in on the action.

But Josie wants more than just her father’s medals returned. She wants retribution, and she’s out for blood …



My Review

When a robbery results in the death of retired vet Frankie Chapman his old team pull together to get his military medals back. They weren't counting on his daughter not only joining them but being the driving force in some aspects. The more they dig the dirtier the people they find. As they get closer to finding the medals the danger ramps up, pulling resources they are trying to do what is right and will cross whatever lines it takes.

The book opens well with Frankie, bless him he is a good soul and Josie, his daughter, takes after her old man. The team investigating took a bit to really get started I felt, there was so much they needed to do and explore. Then we get to the people behind it, there is nothing this guy won't take if he wants it, money is no objective and no morals.

Once we get into the third end of the book I felt that is where it really came into its own, action, plan, movement, lets do this! Up to that I would say was more getting to know the character(s), them building up and becoming a team, the old boys previously served together but Josie was just their comrades daughter. One thing that did annoy me with Josie when when they called her a term of endearment (which was frequent) she would get annoyed and pull them on it, often! Maybe its just a generational thing, my folks friends still use kiddo, pet, terms for young women and whilst it can be grating as an adult let alone one who is breaking the law with them it just happened more than I liked. That and a frequent bladder although I absolutely got it and am the first to admit I am super prickly just now so things that normally would be water off a ducks back really gets under my skin just now.

I do like Josie's character and hopefully this is just book one in a new series, this is an established author writing under another name but I think this is my first time reading him, I will need to check. 3.5 rounder up to 4 because whilst I liked some bits and disliked some of the first 3/4's I did really really like the last quarter of the book. Pace, action, banter, interactions with each other so yeah 4/5 for us overall with all things considered.

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