Julie Cannon

Leigh is a new CIO at her company. A company where the higher ups seem to be very obsessed with golf. She plays too and is playing at her home course when she meets Peyton.

Peyton is a golf pro at the club Leigh belongs to, as well as an ex-con. I have to say that from that point on in the story, I anxiously awaited the reveal of Peyton's full story, and I wasn't let down at all when we finally got it!

They have a sort of build up a relationship with its ups and downs, but it was most show more definitely a slow build not a fast one, then, boom, sex and drama. I did feel like the end was rushed a little, and since I felt like Peyton seemed to have this undercurrent of always believing she owed everyone, I was a little bummed when that facet of the story wasn't fleshed out as much as I would have loved to see it expanded upon.

On the whole it seemed a little like the Bad Girls Nikki/Helen story, but, after Nikki got out.

Ooh, ooh, and my very favorite parts of the story were the awesome motocross stuff. Yeah, woo!. Action! Thrills! Compound Fractures!!

It was a fun read and the title still makes me chuckle even after finishing the book.

I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books. show less

This novel is about Barrett and Kelly. Barrett is one of the owners of Global Digital, a tech company. Kelly is a nurse volunteering in a rural clinic. They also both happen to be kidnapped by an organization called FARC in Columbia. We never really learn the nitty gritty details of how, why, etc., Kelly was kidnapped (and honestly in the context of this story it didn't really matter), but Barrett is in Columbia to complete a deal when she's kidnapped for ransom.

Once they're both there the show more story gets quite intense. But, then when one of them gets out and then the other gets rescued, somehow the novel gets even more intense.

I do wish that we had gotten a bit more with either of the women's families, but, on the other hand, focusing it on just the two women was probably one of the main reasons there was such an intensity to the novel.

The back and forth (relationship wise, not the individual dialogue, although that was great too) between Barrett and Kelly seemed more organic than your typical Lesbian Romance novel. And I Have to say as a big thriller reader, the first part of the novel was very much thrillerish and had me on the edge of my seat at times.

The thing is that Cannon is just a damn great writer. There are so many books that I simply read, that's not saying the book is bad or badly written, but all I do is read it. And then there are books that I feel. This book is in the latter category.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. show less

I really disliked this book and wouldn't have finished it if I didn't need to read a book that started with the letter P. There were several reasons why I didn't like it so I'll share just a couple of them here.

I found the Tate character to be completely unlikable and sleazy in her business practices. She's angry, mean, untrustworthy, and a bully. I've worked with execs in one of the largest companies in the country for nearly a decade and I've never seen any executive, at any level, act show more like Tate. Well, that's not true, there was one and he was tossed out on his ass specifically for his behavior.

One of the other big things that didn't sit right with me was sending these two people who want to buy a failing company around the world to tour parts of the failing company with the failing company's CEO. Two of the companies involved were going broke. Who paid for that? But more importantly, why?

And finally, Tate's speech at the end to Victoria about how she's a totally different person and how Victoria changed her just didn't feel possible or believable. I honestly thought that when Victoria rejected her bizarre proposal to give up her job, come and sit on "the throne" with Tate, and they can rule the world, that would have been the perfect ending because everything that Victoria said in her rejection was true. It was a terrible idea and went against everything that Victoria claimed to be.

I went back and forth for quite awhile on whether to give 1 or 2 stars but, after looking at Goodreads labeling for them, I had to go with 1 because I "didn't like it." show less

I wanted to like this book more than I did, but I just couldn't bond with the character of Barrett. She spent the first third of the book being completely self-absorbed and snotty, and then she spent the remainder of the book trying to atone for something that wasn't her fault. Meh.

As I was reading the book, I wondered why we never see abortion in lesfic. Or at least I haven't. I have read several books where one of the main characters becomes pregnant - either through rape or from a show more previous het relationship - but not once have I ever read about one of the characters ever having an abortion, or even seriously considering that as an option. Is that a taboo that even genre-bending lesfic can't tackle? It is disappointing. If Barrett were male and there was a little religion sprinkled in here, I could easily mistake this for a conservative book. :/ show less