GET LUCKY by Laurie O'Claire

Get Lucky is not a paranormal romance. It is anything, but. It is set in modern day America and is part of Lorie O'Claire's Bounty Hunters series. It is the second book in the series, the first being Play Dirty.

I normally don't read this type of romance, but I was in the mood for something a little different. So, I took a chance.

I loved it!

O'Claire delivers the typical romance novel formula in a very sexy way. I fell in love with Marc King immediately. Who doesn't love a hot guy who knows what he wants? A guy with a bad boy edge, but is a nice guy at the same time? C'mon, we all want Mr. Dangerous, but we don't want him to be an asshole. And Mr. King is the bad boy du jour.

Then we have the lady. London is nice, sweet, hot and running from her childhood. She loses herself in her work, isolates her self from connections to others while maintaining a heart of gold. She isn't the bitter bitch you want to slap down. She's the girl you identify with who happens to be hot, better than LA hot because she's a brunette not a bottle blonde.

As this is book two, it's a continuation from Play Dirty which focuses on papa King, Greg. He's a retired cop turned bounty hunter who gets caught up in a “game”. The “game” involves the super rich kidnapping the best of the best for an all out secret war. Greg and wife get dragged in in book one. They think they are out of it, but now they are dragged back in with sons in tow. They are a side note in the story, but needed for the whole concept of the story line.

What I like best about this book is the use of cock, pussy, wet, thrust, balls, and ….well, the modern concept that sex is fucking fun and can be edgy and doesn't have to drip with saccharin terminology. It also keeps you interested beyond the hot sex scenes; you really care about the characters and wonder what's going to happen next. Are they going to make it? Is Marc going to die? Will they ever see each other again? Okay you know the answers, but O'Claire writes well enough to give you a hint of doubt.

So, I bought book one and I'm ready for book two. Read it. It's fun.

Wilderness-Barbara J. Hankcock

I had two firsts with Hancock's Wilderness. One, I read it as an e-book on Borders e-reader and it's my first Nocturne Bites book from Silhouettes. I have to say though I like the e-reader, didn't love it, that was the best part of this experience. Wilderness was insulting.

I love, love, love paranormal romances a lot. I read all kinds of it and I know what I like and I know when the author is giving me their all. If this is Hancock's all, she needs literary Viagra to keep me satisfied. She brings to us....a interesting alternative world where the paranormal and those like them come to the foreground after a universal illness. Those who became ill were not entirely human. This leads us to the insecure Tess who is on a crusade to help the oppressed. In comes Colin, alpha wolf. She helps save him and in doing so she is now a target of the authorities; they both have to run.

Sounds good, right? It could be accept that the book doesn't give enough detail, reads like an outline for a bigger and better book. This is a book for teenage girls. They wouldn't mind the over the top language, the lack of needed detail and the bits of unbelievable devices.

Yes, it's a paranormal romance. There is a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. However, there has to be enough connection to the human condition to make the choices the protagonists make. I don't ever root for anyone, care for anyone and I ended up putting down the book.

This could be a great story if there was more to it. As is it, it's training wheels left for 8^th grade readers.