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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Review Captivated by Megan Hart and Tiffany Reisz

A Review by Beverly


CaptivatedCaptivated by Megan Hart
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Both of these stories are quick, sexy reads that are well written.

Letting Go by Meghan Hart
4 Stars


Colleen is a beautiful, smart, successful woman who married a self-centered, alcoholic. Her ex-husband found great joy in verbally abusing her until she began believing the lies he told her. Every Thursday Colleen has been visiting a local bar, Fallen Angel, to get a drink. Every week she goes in orders her whiskey and seltzer water and sits there, not drinking her whiskey drink.

Jesse works as a bartender at Fallen Angel and noticed Colleen, has been been watching her for months. He knows she comes in like clockwork, keeps to herself, and doesn’t drink the alcoholic drink she requests. He is mesmerized by the beautiful, sophisticated woman and wants to get to know her, but Colleen isn’t interested. Colleen is obviously attracted to the sexy bartender but that doesn’t mean she is interested in getting to know the younger, single father.

Everything changes one night when Colleen comes in during a snow storm and Jesse decides to keep the bar open for her.

Colleen and Jesse each have their hang ups, and together they explore them together. I liked both Colleen and Jesse. I felt for both of them and felt like you got to know them and their issues, despite the story being short. This little story is a very hot read about a woman who needs to be in control and man who doesn’t need that, but finds a woman in control very sexy and is willing to give control over.



I enjoyed this one and it was very well written, it just isn’t my preferred type of relationship. I also didn’t love the wasted time between the couple when we only have a limited number of pages.




Seize the Night by Tiffany Reisz
4.5 Stars


This modern day twist of Romeo and Juliet was completely delightful. I wasn’t sure how Ms. Reisz was going to pull off the tragic ending, but never fear it was executed perfectly.

Remi and Julian are from rival horse racing families in Kentucky. Four years ago the relationship amongst the families took a turn for the worse when Remi was found half naked with a seventeen year old Julian. Now this isn’t a case of rape or anything ugly, just a misunderstanding. Julian was drinking wine at the party and flirting with Remi. Remi was 22 and wasn’t aware that he was still a minor. Either way, this incident further increased the hatred amongst the two families: Montgomery's and Brite's.

Remi has graduated from collage and working in the family business. She goes to all the races, looks for Julian, but hasn’t seen him in years. When she begins to suspect foul play amongst the families she seeks out Julian to hopefully get more information.

I loved this one and how they reunited years later. I loved the back story - where Julian went, what has been happening between the families and the conclusion of the story.



I don’t think it is a secret that I absolutely love Tiffany Reisz, and here is why. She can take a story like Romeo and Juliet twist things up and make it seem fresh and new. Reisz’s writing is so smart and thought out, I absolutely loved the ending and the “tragic" twist. This one had moments of swooning, laughing and it wouldn’t be Reisz without some smoking hot sex.

I really enjoyed this one and highly recommend it.


ARC kindly provided in exchange for an honest review.

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