Kele Moon

This book was selected from my bookshelf in the Dusty Bookshelf Challenge for September 2012 which is held by the Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fanatics group.



Packing Heat by Kele Moon was a fast, short read easily finished in one sitting.

The story is about Gavin Connolly a cop, and Brad Archer an emotionally controlled and imposing firefighter. Gavin on the other hand, is easy going and doesn’t worry about the things he can’t change. Both Gavin and Brad are buff and toned men, show more with Brad being slightly taller and stronger. Gavin has had a crush on Brad for years; sadly he is terrible at letting Brad know that he’s interested in more than just a friendship. Unfortunately for Gavin, Brad believes that Gavin is straight. Brad’s decision to allow Gavin to move in as his roommate has become a torturous decision. One factor being that Gavin likes to walk around in a low slung towel after a shower.

I like that the action started right from the beginning of the book and escalated to some hot sexing very quickly. In fact there are numerous sex scenes and I found them all nicely descriptive. The scenes have mild D/s and this is a topic that runs throughout the book, not about D/s, but about roles when both men are viewed as tops. There’s also some dirty talking and handcuffs. Gavin eventually starts having more than just friendly feelings for Brad, and Brad also does for Gavin. But Brad has had a terrible past experience that threatens his very short relationship with Gavin. Gavin becomes furious with Brad’s complete flip-flop in behavior and decides to take matters into his own hands.

The author did a great job jumping into the action quickly at the beginning of the book, giving the readers some hot sex scenes, creating the tension point with Brad’s issues and then the resolution. The pace was quick and I wasn’t bored in the least. The only thing I wish was that the story was longer.

I always mention formatting and editing issues in books I critique. This book had some grammatical errors, but the formatting was beautiful *caresses the lovely formatting*. The formatting alone gets five stars.

I’d recommend this story to anyone who enjoys a fast read with some hot sexing between two strong, buff characters. I really enjoyed Packing Heat and give it 4 stars.

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Frankly, my initial crafted review was to be, coupled with some “knee-jerk” opinions bringing conscious giggles along the way. What could a plot assembled on the sinister demeanors of the sanctified ‘Garden of Eden’ bring to the table? All I looked forward to when I picked it for my read were maybe a couple of “fig leaves” dreams, the eternal devilish serpent traits (which by the way I thought were pretty sexy during my ‘religion’ credits at school) and then some inferential show more romantic endeavors. O Boy! How ignorant was I?

This book was astonishingly a pleasant package. Like a gift you never expected yet always craved for. Eve returns home after an exploratory decade in New York only to find that her two high school friends, one of whom she was in love with were now roommates and had just invited her for a modest friendly dinner. Apprehensive about her dormant feelings for Paul might gush out Eve chooses to focus on Danny who she now finds irresistible. How naïve was Eve for thinking that Paul and Danny were just two old friends sharing a house and oblivious of the fact that in due course she would be a part of a stimulating ménage a trois.

Kele Moon does a fabulous job elucidating the intricacies of a BDSM trio enhancing on the m/m/f erotica with raw sexuality and arousing vulnerabilities. One can observe the poise and merit in Moon’s writings when Eve gets clarifications on distinguishing terminologies like “vanilla” and “strawberry” in a BDSM repertoire or the part where Danny is the Achilles' heel as far as Paul’s personal gratifications are concerned and many more such instances. The relation between Paul-Danny and Danny-Eve is justified through each of their Master/Slave bond strongly, even after they meet Circe, another Domme. At first, Danny comes across as an aggressive, flamboyant Domme who not only has a knack for identifying a “top” /”bottom” qualities but also despises the idea of Paul getting married to Trisha fearing the prospect of Paul moving out and losing on a faithful submissive. However, after his numerous resourceful sexual trysts with Eve and the revealing of Paul to be more than just a platonic roommate or an austere submissive, delineates the humane side of Danny. I suppose Danny with his charismatic sensuality is the only character I immensely liked throughout the relating. Eve, on the other hand seems to be puzzled with her hidden vulnerabilities and her foul-mouthed audacious exterior persona. As for Paul, he seems like a man sandwiched between the obligatory mask of a “boy scout” and the fervor of freeing his sexual claustrophobia. The sexual role-plays are eloquently written encompassing all elements of sinister voyeurism, sizzling orgies and exposed covetousness without making you squirm in anyway. That said, the book is more than just kinky sex and bondage acts with sentiments running wild and lingering feelings hoping there would be a happy ending after all. It is a clear-cut romance in the midst of a pleasurably wicked twist. show less

So, I'm going to go against the grain. I've really loved some of this author's other books. In fact, they've all gotten 3.5 or higher, but this was made of pure bad. And my enjoyment and rating has nothing to do with a female being in this book or it being a m/m/f book. This book did not work for me on all levels.

The plot was awful, the incessant nicknames made me want to punch innocent things, the sex scenes were a pile of blah or ridiculousness, and the characters might be the most hated show more characters I've read about in some time.

I read a lot of wackadoo books with murderers, sociopaths, unsavory characters (if you will) and yet have and do rate those books highly. This book in terms of that level had very tame characters, but what made this book different than the others is that the author wrote those characters or plot in interesting ways. I was drawn to it and them and wanted to know more. This was just awful. These characters were sulking, whining, cheating, simpering, self-absorbed assssssssssholes. Assholes I wished to jump into an active volcano. Assholes I wished to never read another line about again. Seriously, every single one of them was a total jerk.

Supposedly the prequel, which is the second book featuring just the male couple, is amazing and I have no idea why, but I'm willing to read it. Probably because the only glimmer of good parts I saw were with Danny and Paul alone. There were definite moments there where I saw something, but either the addition of some very nonbelivable aspects with Evie or their own personaties tarnished everything. So, yeah, I'm going to pretend this book never, ever, ever happened. show less

Melody is on the run. After filing for a restraining order against her abusive ex-husband, she starts afresh in Garnet, filing the only job available and becoming a waitress. When she spies the humungous, lonely man in her waiting area, she can’t help but try to cheer him up with some pumpkin pie. Little does she know that one act puts her directly into the path of Clay, UFC fighter and general arse.

Clay is not known for his social skills. Nice only to his best friends Wyatt and Jules, he show more won’t even court the legions of fans that adore him, preferring to come off as arrogant rather than engage in a conversation. When Melody offers him free pie, for no other reason than she wants to make a nice gesture, something inside him clicks. Her generosity in-spite of her obvious poverty, along with her pretty looks and gentle ways, stir things inside he has never felt before. Determined to woo the skittish waitress, but unsure how to do this, he starts to visit her every day. Before long, the obvious chemistry starts tongues wagging in the small town.

Both parties are damaged by the sins of the past, leaving the scars deep and near impossible to heal. With the odds against them, will they manage to go the distance to create a happiness long time coming for the both of them?

Oh my, oh my, oh my I think I fell in love with this book from the second that Clay started to pretty much stalk Melody. I know, I’m an odd ball but he was just so darned cute. Clay was so clearly damaged that he just didn’t know how to deal with other people. In fact, between him, Jules and Wyatt, they could have covered the spectrum of emotional problems. They were all each other had and all each other needed. Well, until Clay meets Melody. He is so persistent in his affections but it never quite crosses the line to becoming too much. He just turns up at her work every-night, gets to know her and managed to wheedle his way into her heart the long way round. Having the people skills of a rock (and the physique :D) he doesn’t really know how to court her so it’s all very much a “suck it and see” kind of approach. Some of it really made me smile. Melody is attracted to him, but unwilling to get involved. Once he starts to become someone she can rely on, she starts to accept her attraction towards him and lets him in.

The smexing between them is unfricking believable…it’s so raw and hot that it blew me away. It also contains some of the most awesome lines I’ve ever read in smut. Clay has never done a relationship before, never said all the words that we all say and gained the scars to prove them false. He is so honest, so raw, that even the dirtiest of lines become somewhat romantic;

“”Go ahead.” Clay’s voice turned low and gravelly with sex. “Use it; fuck it. It belongs to you; own it””

It made for some seriously erotic scenes and some seriously clammy palm inducing sex.

As you can tell, I now have a soft spot for Clay but Melody was an awesome character too. The thing I liked the most was that she recognised that just because the ex was an abusive idiot, doesn’t mean that all men are. Clay is a physically imposing, blunt, socially impotent man but she isn’t afraid of him; the reason that she doesn’t want to get involved is she doesn’t want to unload her baggage on him. It is also her problems that look to be the reason that they may not survive the duration; her mental scars are deep and on-going. There are some truly heart stopping moments towards the later stages of this book….If it’d been a film, there would have been a pillow over my face.

A fabulous smutty book which I hope evolves into a fantastically smutty series. The complete lack of censorship that Clay imposes on his feelings made for a fantastically intense and erotic tale. There are some more spicy scenes, but we all know I’m a perv so I’m OK with it. He is DEFINITELY part of my book hottie harem show less