Sexual Chemistry – Z. Elizabeth

Synopsis

Fiona Delaporte has an impossible assignment – to care for her newly widowed brother-in-law and his tiny daughter. (The newly widowed tall, dark and delicious brother-in-law she’s secretly wanted for five long, frustrating years.)

Christian Hartley would rather spend time with anyone except the tempting woman who reminds him so much of his cherished wife. But she has six weeks leave from her cruise-liner job on the other side of the world, and seems determined to do her family duty. How can craving the wrong sister feel so right?

WARNING:Contains one hot man who always gets what he wants – in bed and out.

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My Review

Fiona’s sister Jan has only be deceased for 8 days, and to her parent’s request, she has temporarily moved into her brother-in-law Christian’s house, to help him out and to bond with her niece, Nicola.

The problem is, since Fiona set eyes on Christian – at his wedding to her sister – she has been attracted to him ever since and has secretly wanted him for five, long years. So to move in with him for five and a half weeks will be torture. She has to keep her feelings to herself and not slip up.

Christian loved Jan, but then he met Fiona on his wedding day and something stirred inside of him. He wanted her too. Don’t get him wrong, he adored Jan and whenever Fiona came to visit, he would make himself scarce, which in turn made Fiona think he didn’t like her. No, it was so he wouldn’t be tempted by her.

Now that Jan is gone and Fiona is staying for a while until she goes back to work on her cruise-liner, Christian doesn’t want her around. She reminds him of Jan too much but also he’s craved her for years too and it would be too hard to have her around him without giving into temptation. They were both forbidden fruits they couldn’t have.

Kris Pearson wrote this book to perfection in my eyes. It’s about two people, who secretly love each other but, alas, they can’t do anything about it as it’s a forbidden relationship. They both hide their feelings well around each other, at least for a little while. They do try to stay away from each other as you could feel the sexual tension between them but when an accident causes Fiona to need help, Christian can’t stay away, no matter how much he feels he should…

Don’t be put off from reading this book from the title. It is no way a sordid love affair behind a sister’s back. It is much more than that. It’s about being forbidden to each other, loving each other from afar and never knowing the other has harboured feelings for so long until they are forced into admitting them. It sounds wrong as Christian was married to her sister. He really did love Jan, but he loved Fiona too. He did his best to stay away, but in the end, love conquers all.

It takes a long time for them both to have sex. Albeit, their chemistry is hot and no matter how much they tried to stay away, it just wasn’t happening. But you could really see the love they had for each other and really it was Christian pursuing the relationship with Fiona until the very end. When they did have sex, it was special for them both, finally having the chance to be as one.

It also highlights the issue of how long a widower should wait before starting a new relationship. It took about two/three months before they finally got together and the ending was so sweet. Jan wrote them both letters before she passed away, and you get to understand her feelings about the two of them.

This really was a great read that I couldn’t put down. It pulled me in with the whole forbidden storyline and when they finally succumb to their feelings, no matter how much Fiona felt it was wrong until the very end, it was so right for the both of them to be together at last.

Synopsis

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and–was that a meow?–punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.

Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick…

In her third novel, Alice Clayton returns to dish her trademark mix of silly and steamy. Banter, barbs, and strutting pussycats, plus the sexiest apple pie ever made, are dunked in a hot tub and set against the gorgeous San Francisco skyline in this hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.

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My Review

“Open this door you asshole, or I will come through the wall.”

Caroline Reynolds is an interior designer in San Francisco. She’s recently moved into a new apartment with her cat Clive. It’s a great apartment, but there’s just one thing that riles her up nearly every single night…

Enter Simon. He’s the neighbour who has late night wallbanging sex with a different girl each time. You have the girl who giggles, the girl who meows and the girl who likes a bit of spanking. It angers Caroline to no end that he keeps her up at night but even more so, it causes her to become sexually frustrated since she’s lost her O. And yes, that means her orgasm.

Since a bad date ended with sex, the guy she slept with has taken away her O and she loathes him for it. So after weeks of hearing but not seeing the guy who keeps her up at night – and not in a good way – she confronts him when he’s in the middle of his throne of passion and it begins the making of their friendship.

Simon, Simon, Simon. What can I say about him? He’s sexy, funny, caring, a photographer; he travels AND he would definitely give you the best night of your life. Alice wrote this guy to an absolute T. I loved the banter between him and Caroline. They had me laughing so hard at their scenarios and conversations, especially their texts. He’s fond of Caroline and you can also tell he can be sensitive, which is an instant attraction. He definitely would be my type of guy.

Caroline was a great character. She was content in being alone and would happily admit it, but damn girl; she really needed someone to get her O back. She could give as good as he got with Simon, which made their friendship stand out to me. It was flirty and witty and of course there was chemistry between them but it just took a while for them to do anything about it.

The sexual tension between them both literally sizzled out of the book. I could feel it on every page I turned. I did love when they finally had sex. It was long awaited but it was definitely the right time for them both. They were unconventional in the way they began the relationship but it was a great read when they got together.

The sex doesn’t come until near the end of the book but the book was so much more than that. It was about friendships between each other and their friends, being sexual attracted to one another yet not doing anything about it because their friendship seemed more important at the time even though they both wanted something more, and when it did happen, it flourished at every turn.

I bloody loved the names they had for each other, such as Wallbanger, Cockblocker, Nightie Girl etc. They totally made the story and the relationship between them. I have to say though, my favourite scene was when they were ‘telling the truth’ and you finally saw Simon spill his true feelings to Caroline. For two people who wanted to match up their friends together, they took a long time to finally tell each other they had feelings for one another.

This was the first book I had read of Alice Clayton, but the RedHead series looks so good that I will be downloading those books right away!

Seriously, you need to read this book. It had me feeling so many emotions throughout the book and I fell in love with Simon. He was such a character, as was Caroline and they were matched perfectly for one another. So glad I downloaded this book, I couldn’t put it down at all. So going to have to reread this soon.