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5⭐️2🌶 I finished the audio of Not Negotiable by Samantha Cole a couple days ago.  This was a novella and takes place amongst the last bit of Waiting for Him and then goes beyond.  We get a snippet of Devon and Kristen's wedding and that where book four starts.  It was a great quick story of Shelby and Parker.  There is an interaction between Shelby and Parker's brother in Waiting for Him, this novella starts at that event and then jumps ahead a little bit.  It was sweet.  Parker is a very nice guy and Shelby has been around since book one, so it was really nice to see her get a HEA.  This book didn't have the dangerous suspense that the full length books have.  The tension in this one comes from a medical situation with Shelby.  I enjoyed it.  I'm now a little way into book four; Topping the Alpha which is about Jake and Nick.  Nick is Ian and Devon's younger brother who is still active duty on Navy Seal Team 3.  J...

5⭐️4🌶 I finished listening to Waiting for Him by Samantha Cole.  I loved this one!  I thought the spice and thriller plot lines were much more balanced.  They were interwoven in this book and the switch back and forth was seamless and logical to the overall plot.  Kat quite literally comes back from the dead.  She and her family had been involved in a car accident 12 years prior to the beginning of the book.  Ben "Boomer" thought her entire family had died.  What in fact happened is her mother and brother had died in the accident, but she and her father had lived.  That accident was actually a hit by the Russian mob her father had gotten himself involved with.  Her and her father were put in witness protection and they had been living on the west coast under assumed names.  Kat's father had passed away a few months ago.  When her apartment was broken into and she thought she was being followed she turned to the only per...

4.75⭐️3🌶 I finished the audio of Leather and Lace by Samantha Cole on my way home from work last night.  I liked this one more than I thought I would.  It took a while for me to really get into it.  The subplot hooked me and now I'm tempted to read some more in this series.  This was quite spicy, which I enjoyed and it really dove into the BDSM lifestyle.  I found that part interesting, engaging and very spicy.  This wasn't a full 5 stars for me for two reasons.  Some word choices by the author really pulled me out fo the story.  I didn't think I had ick words, but when they're read aloud to me, apparently I do.  Reason two was that I didn't love the narration on this one.  The FMC Kristen is supposed to be 26 and the female narrator sounded much older, in her 40s maybe.  The male narrator didn't change his voice that much for the other male characters and he pronounced some words a little weirdly for my taste.  Ye...