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GUEST REVIEW: ‘Kiss at Your Own Risk’ by Stephanie Rowe
by Carolyn • Posted in 3.5 Star Reviews, Authors Q-T, Book Reviews, Guest Review, Paranormal Romance, Sourcebooks
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Author: Stephanie Rowe
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: January 2011
ARC: 384 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Source: Review copy from publisher
Guest Review by Jo
RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would recommend
GOODREADS SUMMARY:
Trinity Harpswell is a cursed Black Widow-death and mayhem are all part of the job description. If she can manage to go just one more week without accidentally killing someone, she’ll break this killer curse and put her Black Widow days behind her. When sexy Blaine Underhill III shows up at her door and asks for her help rescuing his friend from the clutches of Death’s evil grandma, Trinity gets pulled into a daring high stakes adventure. As Blaine and Trinity join forces to take down a series of underworld assassins, they may just learn that love is the deadliest game of all.
REVIEW:
Trinity, cursed when she was young, is a Black Widow assassin and she can see how to kill anything. But the problem is that whenever she has fallen in love, the Black Widow within takes over. Trinity has found a way to break the curse and live a normal life, all she has to do is not kill anything for five years and now there is only one more week until the five years is up. She is almost free!
Blaine and his friends have been prisoners to Angelina in the Den of Womanly Pursuits for over a hundred years. Angelina feels she needs to tutor men to be good men, by giving them demeaning tasks and torturing them. Yup, she’s bats. They find that the only way to escape Angelina is to find a Black Widow to kill her. Hmmm, I see where this is going….
I thoroughly enjoyed this caper. It was funny, heartwarming, full of action and a page turner. From the first page we see Blaine working on a tapestry, this seems so out of character for a typical paranormal romance hero and it sets the tone for the whole book. Trinity is a sweetheart, and she truly hates her curse so I really wanted to see her beat it, even with all the problems she is given.
There is a lot of action going on, so you do need to pay attention and although I got lost here and there I soon got back on track with the plots. The characters are really well written, I even sympathized with Angelina (even with all the crazy she has going on), I wanted to know more about Blaine’s friends and I was cheering for Blaine and Trinity’s HEA. The writing is very tongue-in-cheek at points, the romance scenes were rather sigh-worthy too.
VERDICT:
I felt like I was pampering myself by reading this. It’s a treat! It’s full of hot Warrior men, a suitably hot woman trying to overcome something, a sympathetic, albeit bananas Villain and an interesting, well written plot.
You can find out more about the author here:
Books in Series Order:
1. Kiss At Your Own Risk
3. Hold Me If You Can
This book counts towards the following BCC reading challenges:
5 Comments
This looks great fun, I want to read it now
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Sounds like a crazy adventure! And I dig that cover
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This sounds like a fun read! Glad you enjoyed it
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You liked this way more than I did. but I would be willing to read the next one.
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I thought that this one was fun but I had some problems with it. I'm interested in reading the next one and seeing if I like it better. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it!
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