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Big Guns out of Uniform

af Sherrilyn Kenyon (Bidragyder), Nicole Camden (Bidragyder), Liz Carlyle (Bidragyder)

Serier: B.A.D. (Novella "BAD to the Bone")

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They are the intriguing strangers we pass on the street - men who do whatever it takes to keep us safe from the evils of the world. Mysterious and untameable, they hold honour, strength and courage close to their well-guarded hearts. But no matter how much their jobs require them to lay aside their personal lives, they can't deny that when their facades and clothes are stripped off, they have burning needs like any other man. This is the new erotic anthology including stories from the bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.… (mere)
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I’ve had this book for a few years and finally got around to reading it. I’m a big fan of Sherrilyn Kenyon but I’ve never read anything from Liz Carlyle or Nicole Camden until now.

In the first book of the anthology, ‘BAD to the Bone’ by Sherrilyn Kenyon, school teacher Marianne wins the sweepstakes! But it’s not just any sweepstakes. The host is a romance book publisher and the winner can pick any book the publisher owns to reenact at their private island. As she’s living the fantasy—a secret agent/spy romance with a kickass heroine—she’s bored because all the actors meant to portray the characters in the book are duds. When Marianne wanders to the off-limits part of the island, she meets the gorgeous Kyle and all her action-packed, hot sex dreams with a real life secret agent are about to come true!
I love insta-love stories and their chemistry was off the charts. I laughed out several times and the H/h really clicked. The ending is super sweet but hilarious. Though I enjoyed the story, it was a little farfetched. I mean, Marianne is a tourist and she’s hiding in a cave from the publisher’s fantasy workers for a week. I understand she doesn’t want to go back but she’s not even concerned that her disappearance and ‘kidnapping’ by Kyle could pose major problems. Kyle is hitting and scaring off the people who are doing their job and trying to find her, not even concerned he could get in big trouble with the agency he works for.
The novella is well-edited, but the author jumped POVs. The switches flowed, however, and I never lost track of who was telling the story. The pacing could’ve been tighter but I liked it overall.
3 Stars

In Liz Carlyle’s, ‘Let’s Talk About Sex,’ recent divorcée Delia meets her next door neighbor Nick after the home owner’s association of her fancy gated community decides to cut down the border of trees between her place and Nick’s. (His ramshackle adjacent property isn’t part of the gated area.) They have little in common but sexual tension sparks between them.
I didn’t connect well with either Delia or Nick. She’s a snobby sex physiologist and assistant college professor, and she hosts a daytime talk show about sex. The problem is that she’s naïve and has very little sexual experience. She’s totally vanilla and unsure about her own sexuality. This makes little sense due to her job.
Nick, on the other hand, is too arrogant and pursues her way too strongly. He works for the State Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina, so it’s understandable he’s rough around the edges. To make matters worse, he’s a good ole boy with a Southern drawl and he calls his father Daddy. He makes it clear he only wants sex from her, not a relationship, and he refuses to talk about anything important. When she tries to have a meaningful conversation, he very crudely seduces her and she gives in without a fight.
The story is well-written but needs a little content editing. For example, how old is Delia? On one page she’s 29, a few pages later she’s 31. I really wanted to like this book but I struggled to get through it. It just wasn’t for me.
2 Stars

In the last book, ‘The Nekkid Truth’ by Nicole Camden, Debbie is a professional photographer who also sidelines as a crime scene photographer for the police. A drunk-driving cop hit her car five years ago and left her with a mental disability. She’s fully functional and lives a strong, healthy life, but she has trouble recognizing people, even those she knows well. She’s a flirt, lives in the moment, but there’s only one man she wants. Marshall was the drunken cop’s partner and he feels responsible for her accident. They’ve become friends and started working together, and the sexual tension between them is high. When a murder investigation draws them together and their feelings for one another out in the open, neither of them expected the sparks to fly.
I liked this book a lot. Though Debbie’s problem confused me (I’m not sure if the disability is even a real medical problem), I definitely felt her pain, unease and self-doubt. I teared up a few times. Marshall was so sweet and understanding. He’s surly and protective but definitely doesn’t seem like a realistic cop, at least none I’ve met or heard of in real life. For instance, he kisses a man on the mouth for laughs at his birthday party (also, the whole station accepts two openly gay cops who work there). That’s wonderful, but a little unrealistic in my opinion.
The story is well-written like the previous two but, unlike them, it’s in first POV and told from Debbie’s POV. I’m not a big fan of first POV but I enjoyed the story.
3.5 Stars

The Book Overall – 3 Stars

Disclaimer – I bought this book for my own enjoyment. I am not paid or compensated in any way, shape or form for this honest review. I will not change or alter this review for any reason unless at my discretion.
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  AmberDaulton | Nov 20, 2023 |
I bought this book years ago, back when I was a huge Sherrilyn Kenyon fan and would read anything of hers I could get my hands on, even though I preferred her paranormals. This was technically a reread, but I only remembered Kenyon's story and the premise of Camden's story. Carlyle's story was a complete blank - absolutely nothing about it was familiar to me.

I recalled this being a so-so read for me, even back when I first read it. My romance reading tastes have changed a lot over the years, so I was curious to see how well this would hold up for me.

"BAD to the Bone" by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Marianne is a teacher who won a fantasy getaway in a contest. She gets to spend a week on an island, pretending to be the gorgeous heroine of her favorite romance novel while acting out scenes from the book. She'd been excited for the actor playing Brad, the book's hero, to sweep her off her feet, but the one who actually does that is Kyle, an agent from BAD (Bureau of American Defense) who's recuperating from a recent mission on the other half of the island.

Oh man, this story's premise was cringey. I can't imagine one of these "Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes" going well. It's one thing to fantasize about your favorite romance hero. It's another to go on a real getaway with the expectation that the actor playing your favorite romance hero might seduce you. It wasn't stated flat out like that, but it was clear that the reality of the getaway (bad acting, plus edited scenes that avoid all sexual moments) did not impress Marianne.

Kyle was one of Kenyon's "tough guys who secretly want to settle down with someone sweet and ordinary but don't feel like they deserve that life." The story's length meant she didn't have a lot of time and space to establish the character dynamics, so aspects of it felt a little rushed, even though there was enough humor and warmth to make the results appealing. We had Kyle both falling instantly in love with Marianne and telling her that she was beautiful, and also thinking to himself that she was fairly ordinary and not particularly beautiful.

Readers were assured that Kyle really wanted an ordinary life with an ordinary woman, but I had trouble imagining what he'd do with himself once he followed Marianne home. BAD seemed to be his entire life. Still, this was pure fluff written in a reasonably enjoyable way.

"Let's Talk About Sex" by Liz Carlyle

Dr. Delia Sydney has a radio show in which she gives callers sex-related advice. Her recent divorce makes her feel a bit like a fraud, but she also definitely doesn't miss her ex - he's the one who left her with a mortgage she can't afford. Until she can manage to sell her house, she somehow has to convince her piece of junk car to keep working. Thankfully, Nick, her cop neighbor, offers to help her out.

I'm not really a fan of "heroine job involves sex in some way and is therefore inherently sexy" romance setups, and I don't think it was handled all that well here. An attempt was made: at one point in their relationship, Delia asked Nick to stop bringing up callers to her radio station during their own flirting and sex. She told him that that was her work, and she didn't consider her work to be sexy. I really liked that moment, but then it was ruined when Nick called Delia's radio station and, using a fake name, essentially flirted with her on-air by asking her a question that was really about her. If I had been Delia, I'd have been pissed, but for some reason she didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with what he did. They certainly never talked about it afterward.

On the plus side, the relationship progression was more believable than in the first story - no instalove, and I could actually imagine them as a couple with a future.

"The Nekkid Truth" by Nicole Camden

Years ago, an accident robbed Debbie of her ability to recognize faces, even her own. She got a job as a crime scene photographer and is now famous in the art world for her nude photography. She also has a private photograph collection: dick pics of all the men who have been her lovers. The man she really wants to be with, though, is Detective Marshall Scott. Unfortunately, he keeps her at arm's length - maybe for the best, since she isn't sure whether someone who can't recognize the face of their own mother could ever really love someone.

Whereas Kenyon's story was pure fluff and even Carlyle's was pretty light, Camden's story had a heaviness to it. The first half, in particular, felt very quiet and reflective, but also weirdly emotionally distant. I think it was part of Camden's efforts to write Debbie's face blindness, so it technically fit the story, but it didn't work for me from a romance perspective. I like my romances more emotionally warm and sweet. The second half of the story delivered that a little more, but overall it wasn't to my taste.

Still, Debbie's face blindness was pretty unique and memorable. The way it was worked into the final scene was nice.

All in all, this collection was okay, but a little odd, ranging in tone from goofy to reflective. It definitely at least had a theme to it: law enforcement officer heroes plus relatively high heat level sex. Unfortunately, considering the limited number of pages the authors had to work with, I sometimes felt like the sex scenes detracted from the time needed to establish that the characters were really in love rather than just in lust and could make a relationship work. Although Kenyon's story was the most fun, it was also the worst in that respect. That said, the other two stories were only so-so reads for me as well.

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )
  Familiar_Diversions | Jun 8, 2021 |
The mini stories were all well played considering everything had to happen to develop quickly.

Kenyon's story was by far my favorite out of the 3, but the other two were close behind. The first two were like any other romance novel, with a little more raunchy and frequency. The last one was by far the one that I would consider erotic. The dirty language, and the inhibition of the characters definitely held up the rest of the book with the erotica that curls your toes. ( )
  dhampir05 | Sep 24, 2009 |
BAD to the Bone-
"4 stars" I found this story to be a fun enjoyable fantasy. I thought the idea of a woman being given the opportunity to live out her favorite romance novel was a creative one. I absolutely loved both the hero and heroine, and felt these characters would have been worthy of a longer story. Marianne was a plain Jane who was as sweet as could be. She didn't know why a hunk like Kyle would want to be with her, but it didn't stop her from enjoying the experience. Kyle was a tortured
hero, but that didn't stop him from accepting her tenderness. They spent their time together baring their souls to one another (among other things;)) which I thought was very romantic. The love scenes were very sensuous, but also sweet. I found all these elements to be very refreshing. I thought that the story could have benefited from a little more clarity and tighter plotting especially at the beginning and end, as I was left with some unanswered questions. Overall though, I thought it was the most romantic of the three novellas. This was my first read by Sherrilyn Kenyon, but definitely won't be my last.

Let's Talk About Sex-
"4.5 stars" I found this story to be a really enjoyable read. Although it had a slightly more serious tone than the first, it still had lots of playfulness and steamy sensuality. It also had two very likable lead characters who seemed more like normal people with normal problems, something that was also rather refreshing to me in a different sort of way. Liz Carlyle has been one of my favorite authors of historicals for a while, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that she writes
contemporary equally well. In my opinion, it was the overall best and most well written novella in the threesome.

The Nekkid Truth-
"3 stars" This story was my least favorite in the book. Even though it had a cop hero, the writing style was just so different from the other two, it seemed out of place. It was written in first person perspective which I don't categorically oppose, but in this case, it didn't really do anything for me. It was also pretty dry, matter-of-fact, and lacking in emotions, so that I had difficulty understanding the characters motivations, and the love scenes just didn't have that spark of passion and sensuality that the other two stories did. They basically felt like JUST sex. I also had a hard time believing the hero and heroine genuinely loved each other and would have a lasting happily-ever-after ending. The author did a pretty good job with the mystery element though. Even though it wasn't incredibly compelling, it held my interest. I also thought that her plotting was pretty tight and the pacing was very good. Overall, the story had an interesting premise, but just didn't quite live up to it's potential in my opinion.

Note: This was my first read of an erotic romance, but I thought that the sex scenes in the first two stories were similar to traditional romances with just a little more steam, detail and frequency and just a couple of "f" words regarding sex in the second story. However, I thought the third story exhibited more coarseness in both tone and language, which some readers might find offensive. ( )
  mom2lnb | Apr 17, 2008 |
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They are the intriguing strangers we pass on the street - men who do whatever it takes to keep us safe from the evils of the world. Mysterious and untameable, they hold honour, strength and courage close to their well-guarded hearts. But no matter how much their jobs require them to lay aside their personal lives, they can't deny that when their facades and clothes are stripped off, they have burning needs like any other man. This is the new erotic anthology including stories from the bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.

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