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ARC Review: Perfect Rhythm (His to Claim #6) by Opal Carew

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Title: Perfect Rhythm
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press 7/1/14
Length:  32 Pages
Series: His to Claim #6

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

We left off this series when we just got the news that Rafe/Storm was in an accident while riding his motorcycle at 4am after he felt the need to get away and clear his head from what’s going on with Melanie and what it means for their future.

So, this final installment in the series is really the make or break it point – the questions that need to be answered are whether Melanie and Storm will be together and in what capacity, If storm will stay with the band or choose to go back to the company and take his place and what will be next for Melanie since she’s definitely having a time at finding her footing.

The great thing about this story is that you don’t have to get wrapped up in the stress and tension of the accident since you know how that’s going to net out.  I think that what we instead get out of it is a definition of everyone’s relationships.  The accident brings Dane and Storm back together to talk through what they felt is a fear from what their father did to them, and that’s really what was the block in Melanie and his relationship.

The other good thing is that we see Storm get a hold of his Dom side – we see that he’s confident in the role when he can trust himself, but we don’t quite know how receptive to all that Melanie will be.

We get a bunch of make up sex, and a bit of on the mend sex – while all trying to DTR (thank you MTV for that one) – and well, a nice conclusion to a story with characters that we’ve been so invested in.  I think that the end was expected – but the journey was a nice one – so i’m really glad that i was able to get my hands on the complete series and i can’t wait for what’s next from Ms. Carew.

ARC Review: Breaking Storm (His to Claim #5) by Opal Carew

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Title: Breaking Storm
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press 6/24/14
Length:  31 Pages
Series: His to Claim #5

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

Our journey continues with Rafe/Storm now on tour, but the question is what will happen to this couple now that they are together, yet they have so much temptation – or at least Melanie does.

This installment takes us to a hot place – where we see encounters of passion happen that were never expected and yet so welcome.  The problem though is that it makes thoughts/feelings come up for Rafe that he’s not prepared for and it could be detrimental to the relationship and even his friendship with the band.

Also, what this brings to the forefront is that he and Travis never had it out with each other after Storm left Jessica, so that’s something that we see confronted here as well.  The ending of this 5th – CLIFF HANGER! .  i guess my assumption that it was the final book was wrong – since i see that there’s a 6th – i just don’t have my hands on the ARC yet and it doesn’t come out til July so i don’t know what i’m going to do.  Where Ms. Carew left us is a tense place – someone’s gone missing, there are unsettled feelings among the band and the couple, and i’m not sure what the resolution will be. Enjoy!

ARC Review: Wild Ones (His to Claim #4) by Opal Carew

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Title: Wild Ones
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press 6/17/14
Length:  31 Pages
Series: His to Claim #4

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

so, as we know, Melanie has decided to go on tour and Rafe has stayed in Philly to work on the company.  What will the distance between them mean especially since they left on bad terms?  well your guess is as good as mine.

It’s not just the distance that’s putting a crimp in things.  She now has to deal with her clear sexual attraction with Travis – who doesn’t seem to want to take no for an answer, and Melanie begins to wonder if she shouldn’t say no.  then one night Diego – another bandmade decides to hint at a threesome with her and Travis, so we know what rabbit hole they are about to go down.

This really makes for some tension and passion that’s become a trait of our author Ms. Carew.  I think that it’s something that builds anticipation as we’re nearing the end of a story and I can’t wait to see what it means.  I mean, sometimes it seems like it’s a competition between the guys for Melanie and sometimes i see that Melanie just doesn’t want to have to choose.  She just wants to explore that side of things – the controlling side of sex which all the boys seem to be more than willing to help with – aside from Rafe.

Onto what i think is the finale – book 5 to see if we’re coming to the end of bliss – since a drunken Diego seems to flip the switch on everyone, and the world comes crashing down.

ARC Review: Rock Hard (His to Claim #3) by Opal Carew

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Title: Rock Hard
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press 6/10/14
Length:  31 Pages
Series: His to Claim #3

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

just to preface – the summary above is a bit out of order since Melanie was only offered the roadie job with the band – she hasn’t accepted it yet, but based on where things are going with with her and Rafe, and her and Travis for that matter, it’s easy enough to assume that she’s going to accept.

In this 3rd installment, we see things between Melanie and ‘Storm/Rafe’ heating up in a good way – they are hot for each other and really get into role playing.  where ever they can.  Travis continues to have a role in things, and that makes for an uncertain future.  I guess the question that lies ahead is

1) who will she choose

2) when will Rafe be ready for a relationship since it’s pushing Melanie away

3) what’s next for Melanie since she hates her job and wants to be an artist but doesn’t have the means or confidence.

Off to book 4 🙂

ARC Review: Savage Kiss (His to Claim #2) by Opal Carew

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Title: Savage Kiss
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press / Macmillan 6/3/14
Length:  29 Pages
Series: His to Claim #2

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

The saga continues – with a rock concert, a dive into unknown territory – some heat and passion….and a potential love triangle?  Didn’t expect that one to come along, but i’m not sad that it has.  We welcome Travis, Jessica’s brother and Rafe’s bandmate into the story – and it’ll be interesting to see how things pan out, especially since Travis has no idea that Rafe is a billionaire and the brother to his sister’s fiance, and Rafe has claimed to not want a relationship right now.  where will that put Melanie?  Only the next chapters will tell.

ARC Review: No Strings (His to Claim #1) by Opal Carew

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Title: No Strings
Author:  Opal Carew
Publisher/Year:  St Martin Press / Macmillan 6/3/14
Length:  27 Pages
Series: His to Claim #1

Overview

Rafe Ranier was my boss and secret crush. A rock musician by night and head of a billion dollar empire by day, Rafe could have any woman he wanted. But I was just the shy secretary he never noticed. For years I obsessed over him, until I finally realized I had to walk away. I needed to break from the secure life I’d always known to discover who I really was.

I never expected Rafe to follow me.

Now I’m on the road with his band, Savage Kiss, and all my secret fantasies are coming true. But I fear I’ve made a huge mistake, because if I get any more attached to a man I can never truly have, my heart will be broken beyond all repair.

My Thoughts

It’s been a while since i was involved in this series – or these characters for that matter, so it took a few seconds to jog my memory – but i’m glad that i’ve come across this ARC from Netgalley.

If you’ll remember, we met Melanie, Rafe and his brother Dane and girlfriend Jessica in the last series His to Possess.  Now we get to begin the story of Rafe and Melanie, and that’s where this first novella installment takes us.

Melanie used to work for Rafe but quit her job and is getting a better idea of what it means to be free and independent.  The question that we’ll get to see answered i hope is whether Rafe will be able to help her discover her freedom and inner self and what that will mean for everyone.  at only 25 pages or so, there’s not much that we get to see yet, but at least it’s a nice introduction, all brought together from a tattoo and a motorcycle.  Enjoy!