“Crazy in love is a dangerous position for a man to be in.”

“I was willing to sell my soul to the devil for you.”

This is another from Georgia Le Carre and I must admit, I’ve been excited for Jack Irish. Beauty and the Dark is about a broken soul and a broken will who met and found purpose with each other to live and to flourish.

Sofia is an innocent soul broken when she was sold to a brothel when she was young and rescued by her brother-in-law. She’s like a baby thrust into the real world

Jack is a lost soul who wanted to change the world but was altered by the things he saw in his stay in Africa. He lost his will to live and nothing scares him.

They were fated to meet and that one kiss under the mistletoe have changed where there life will go. Their journey together was sweet, and inspiring but full of struggles because of the triggers and the trauma that held Sofia back. But it never held them both back to be together.

Once again, Georgia Le Carre delivered something that combines violence and passion together in this raw, intense and emotional read. Be ready to be swept away by the force of love of Jack Irish!

“I want you to know there is no depth I will not go to recue you.”

“Just feel. That’s all I want you to do. That’s your whole job right now. Feeling what I’m doing to you.”

It was Master Griffin that I was most excited about when I first read the introduction to the Blasphemy Series in Hard to Serve. And then ta-da!

“It was Kenna. The same freckle on her cheekbone. The same scar above her eyebrow. The same bow-shaped lips that looked so fucking beautiful gasping in orgasm and wrapped around his cock.”

This is a story of finding out your purpose in life again and the second shot at love was just icing on the cake. Kenna was a Marine, medically discharged because of the loss of her right forearm and hand. Her purpose had been to give motivation to people like her, after serving her country but she’d always feel like a fraud because of survivor’s guilt.

I like Kenna Sloane a lot. She’s brave, vulnerable and full of insecurities but that she took hold of her life and have gone back to that one thing that gave her the escape she needs, find herself in the process. Her journey was admirable.

Master Griffin on the other hand, oozed that mysterious aura from the beginning that I’ve gotten a glimpse of him. Reading about him hadn’t diminished that, it only increased his appeal. Dominant, a man who learned from his mistakes, and oh so sweet.

“I see beauty, Kenna. I see surrender. I see a woman bound to submit to me, and me alone. I see you.”

This book reminded me of why I loved to read BDSM novels. Even the strongest of women can be vulnerable but what made them stronger is their ability to let go, to surrender, to submit. Griffin and Kenna’s journey was heartbreakingly sweet but so hot with all the scenes. I enjoyed being in the Blasphemy and can’t wait to be back!

One of the things I love and look forward to when reading a Laura Kaye book is the use of f-bombs because what-the-fuck-ever. Seriously, I can’t get efuckingnough! I am excited to meet the rest of the masters and fall in love with them. ReadHard, always!

“The Marines hadn’t left her with much time to worry about her sex life-between training and deployment, sleep had been a premium, let alone sex. Still, on some level, she’d really missed this-this need to serve, to submit.”

Tommy has a special place in my heart. If you have read Panty Whisperer: The Complete Series, most readers would be enthralled by Joel. I was, apparently, but Tommy has a definite charm to him that he had captured my heart the way Joel wasn't able to.

Tommy is a sweetheart. God, I love him. A goofball, a nerd, and a loyal friend. Tommy is a serious student but life has a way of changing things. Reading this, I already have a foreboding feeling of what will happen. I think it's one of the reason I kept expecting it to happen, that when it did, I didn't feel the full force and impact of it.

One of the reasons I love this book is that Sloane Howell made me re-live college in a different life and a different place. I love the humor and the writing was effortless.

I highly recommend to all those TPW fans, but if you're not, well no worries. You're in for some hot and sexy scenes! *humming*

Amazon CA: https://goo.gl/sWmbvJ

Amazon AU: https://goo.gl/cGD3WK