{DNF} Too Hot to Handle by Robin Kaye

TOO HOT TO HANDLE (Domestic Gods, Book 2)
Robin Kaye
Published: Sourcebooks Casablanca, May 2009

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Blurb:
He sure would love to have someone to take care of…
Dr. Mike Flynn's single mom taught him early how to cook and clean, and there's nothing like vacuuming or doing dishes to help a guy relax. Annabelle Ronaldi is an artist without a domestic bone in her body. Since her fiance's death, she can't paint, and life looks hopeless.
Until the day after her sister's wedding, when she wakes up with Mike next to her in bed, and then she's really beside herself - because the handsome stranger is a dead ringer for her dead fiance.
After their mind-blowing one night stand, Mike is sure this is the woman he wants to take care of forever, but she acts like she's seen a ghost. While Mike sets to work wooing Annabelle, she sets to work sniffing out the truth of the convoluted family secret that turns everybody's lives upside down.


My Thoughts: 
This is one of those books, it pains me to say, I couldn't finish.  I really thought I'd enjoy this one, too.  After-all, I do love men with a domestic gene.  What struck me the wrong way is it didn't seem like Annabelle was over her deceased ex.  I read half of this book and I never got the idea she was at a place in her life where she was ready to open up to a new relationship. 

Is it possible I put it away too quickly?  Of course.  So, why put it down?  Despite the fact that I think Mike's character was love-worthy, I never connected to Annabelle enough to feel invested in what happens.  I didn't like where the story was headed with Mike's lineage, either.  It felt too contrived; like a ploy to explain-away Annabelle's confusion.

I'm not saying I'll never pick up another Robin Kaye book.  This particular book completely missed the mark for me.

GRADE: DNF

{Review} Hunter's Choice by Shiloh Walker

HUNTER'S CHOICE
Shiloh Walker

Published: March 2010 (originally part of The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance)

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Blurb:
One year ago, Sara’s twin brother and his wife were brutally murdered. By vampires, creatures that can’t exist. But Sara knows better and she’s on a mission to kill as many as she can…until she comes across a man from her past.





My Thoughts:
Hunter's Choice has been on my Kindle for a month or so just waiting for me to give it chance. I gave in. I read it. Then, I read it again. Yes, it was that good.

Sara's on a mission to kill vampires before they get a chance to kill. A year ago, her twin brother and his wife (her best friend) were murdered by a vampire while on their honeymoon. Plagued by nightmares and alone in the world, she fights these soulless creatures. But she's unable to forget the one man who gave her solace after her family was taken from her. The one man who's passion consumed her.

Wyatt has missed Sara every single day since she left. He knows her pain and fears. But, as a hunter in The Council, he has to stop her from killing innocent vampires. In order to do that, he'll have to tell her he's one of the creatures she fears most.

I am hugely picky when it comes to vampire romances. I'm a Buffy fangirl from way back! I needed a support group when the show ended. Then, Mick St. John swept in with his sexy vampire bod and stole my heart in Moonlight. I cried when the show was canceled. This book was like the best of both shows! The Buffy references made me smile. Sara hides her loneliness behind weapons and a fearless attitude much in the same way Buffy did. Wyatt is strong and steadfast in his belief that not all vampires (and definitely not himself) are bad. He made me swoon every bit as much as Mick did.

I will not hesitate to read the rest of Ms. Walker's THE HUNTERS Series. In fact, I think I'll head over to Amazon right now...

Grade: A