She’d wanted him her whole life, and this past six months had been pure torture. That’s all she could think as she looked into his eyes, her heart racing. We know this because we’re told so (mid-morning sex scene): “She loved him. The first problem: Ellie needs to get Robby to commit. Because Ellie is a workaholic too, and Robby also works at the family firm, this is a big plus in Ellie’s eyes. Robby Robriquet is the aforementioned SHMOHD – a title he apparently earned solely on the basis of her adolescent crush, a hot bod and workaholic tendencies. At the start of the novel she has it all: a brilliant corporate career and the Smoking-Hot Man of Her Dreams. Naked Attraction features Ellie Lee, a brilliant mathematician/data analyst who supposedly has the chops to take over from her father as CEO of the successful family firm. I’ve since downloaded some single books – non-Blaze – and they are faring much better). However, there was one book in the bunch that made quite an impact on me – unfortunately it was on the epic fail level (I really wanted to find one that I could give a fantastic review to – but my selection choice was pretty poor really. For the most part, they were enjoyable, but fairly forgettable (kind of like the McDonalds of romantic fiction really). I hadn’t read a contemporary in years, so I figured the best way to re-introduce myself to the genre was to try some random compendiums and the Blaze series seemed to be about the furthest away from my usual preferences as possible. As Harlequin very generously offered a book voucher as part of the Sony e-Reader test drive, I decided to use it to break out of my preferred romance genre (long historicals) and try some short contemporaries.

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