BOOK REVIEW ~ LAST HIT BY JESSICA CLARE & JEN FREDERICK

Title: Last Hit (Hitman, Book One)
Author: Jessica Clare, Jen Frederick
Publisher: Pear Tree LLC
Release Date: November 30, 2013
eBook format, 270 pages

Reviewer purchased own copy of eBook




Book Blurb

Nikolai:

I have been a contract killer since I was a boy. For years I savored the fear caused by my name, the trembling at the sight of my tattoos. The stars on my knees, the marks on my fingers, the dagger in my neck, all bespoke of danger. If you saw my eyes, it was the last vision you’d have. I have ever been the hunter, never the prey. With her, I am the mark and I am ready to lie down and let her capture me. Opening my small scarred heart to her brings out my enemies. I will carry out one last hit, but if they hurt her, I will bring the world down around their ears.

Daisy:

I’ve been sheltered from the outside world all my life. Home schooled and farm-raised, I’m so naive that my best friend calls me Pollyanna. I like to believe the best in people. Nikolai is part of this new life, and he’s terrifying to me. Not because his eyes are cold or my friend warns me away from him, but because he’s the only man that has ever seen the real me beneath the awkwardness. With him, my heart is at risk..and also, my life.

Book Review

I have been on a bad boy kick lately. And Nikolai definitely qualifies... to an extent. He is a multi-layered character that can't be summed up easily and tied up in some pretty package. He is a dark and tortured soul. An assassin with a moral code. A loner who has no ties to family or friends. A man who longs for that certain someone but doesn't think he deserves it.

Daisy is a sheltered soul. After the murder of her mother, she has been sequestered away in her home, only allowed out to run errands for her father. At first I wanted to hate her father for his actions, but his paranoia was a result of his wife's killer who was out in the world somewhere...possibly waiting to carry through with the threat to end him. Her father's pain and fear truly came to light later on in the story.

But Daisy has had enough seclusion. She wants to feel the sun against her skin. She wants to see the world and be a part of it. So she escapes, despite her guilt at abandoning her father. Her lack of monetary funds has her living in a not so safe neighborhood and taking a job at a local gas station. But she is experiencing life for the first time and the sun feels good. 

Nikolai is on a job when he spots Daisy across the way and he is instantly taken with Daisy. It isn't her beauty, but the way she reacts to the world around her. And he simply falls under her spell. 

But how can an assassin and a naive young woman even contemplate having a relationship with so many secrets between them.

Especially when the mafia interferes and attempts to render them apart. 

After reading a lot of mixed reviews--it seems that Last Hit could go either way for the reader. But this reader loved the characters, the story, and the jolting climax. I will definitely stick around to read the second installment by author, Jessica Clare. 

SEXY SNIPPETS ~ THE CARE AND FEEDING OF AN ALPHA MALE

Tuesdays have never been so sexy!

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"I think this would be delicious with frosting." She reached to his side and dug her finger in the corner of the cake, then smeared the blog of frosting on the tip of his cock.
He groaned, his hand moving to the base of his cock to cup it.

"Looks delicious to me," she said, and then reached out to like it--and him. The frosting was sweet in her mouth, and she twirled her tongue over the head of his cock, making sure to get every bit. Even after the frosting was gone, she continued to lap and smooth her tongue over the crown, enjoying his ragged breathing and the exquisite taste of him. When a salty drop of pre-cum touched her tongue, she looked up at him. "The frosting is delicious."

He reached behind him, and to her surprise, grabbed a bowl of frosting. With one hand on his cock, he tipped the bowl over it, and more frosting, liquid, thick, and wet, smeared down the hard length. "Looks like you have a bit more to lick off."

 

Makes you look at baking a bit differently, doesn't it. I think that Betty Crocker must have been one smart cookie, lol.

Now it's your turn to show me your sexy!

SEXY SNIPPETS TUESDAY---ER...WEDNESDAY

Tuesdays (er...Wednesdays) have never been so sexy!

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Title:  The Girl's Guide To (Man)Hunting
Author:  Jessica Clare

     He kissed the inside of her thigh, his own body tense with need. "Like that, did you?"

     "That was incredible." She stared up at him in surprise. "I mean, last night was really good but that one...wow."

     Her knee was close to his mouth and so pretty he reached out and kissed it, too. "That," he told her, "was one. I promised you three."

     She licked her lips, the glazed expression returning to her face. " I...but..."



This was a really great erotic read with a women bent on revenge...only now she starts to feel something a little bit more complicated...a little bit different...a little bit like love.

Now it's your turn to show me your sexy!