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Review: Pulse Part 4 (The Pulse Series #4) by Deborah Bladon

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Title: Pulse
Author: Deborah Bladon
Publisher/Year: Deborah Bladon 7/1/14
Length: 72
Series: The Pulse Series #4

Overview

Jessica Roth thought she’d found the one man who could fulfill her in every way. He was gorgeous, controlling, amazing in bed and said everything that she desperately wanted to hear. That was, until she heard him say the one thing she never suspected was true.

Nathan Moore says he has his reasons for doing the things that break her heart. She knows that she can’t continue to live in a world where nothing makes sense.

As Jessica weaves her way through a maze of lies, half-truths and coincidences, she begins to see everyone in her world for who they really are. Old friends become the enemy, new friends become allies and the one man she can’t be close to, becomes the only person who can give her what she really needs.

They promised each other there would be no complications. It’s a promise neither of them can keep.

My Thoughts

Ahhh, here we are, finally at the finale of the series – and i have to say that it’s really interesting to me to learn who’s on the right side and who’s not.  Like i thought about in the last bit of my review for book 3, there were folks that you’d never expect to be playing on the wrong side that were.  Namely ….Rebecca.

Anyhow, what we get in this last installment is the culmination of things – Nathan and Jessica are trying to sort out what they are, Jessica’s trying to decide what her next move is, to stay in NYC and find another job or to move back to CT, to find her footing on her own in NYC, or to just tuck her tail and face the facts that she tried and failed.  Nathan wants his way and that means Jessica staying, but we’ll see that it’s not that easy.

The bit of this story is that we see Drew appear even more – since he was in the last pages of book 3, revealing that he was in on a bet with Nathan on who would sleep with Jessica first.  What Jessica didn’t know at the time is that Drew is Cassandra’s ex, and Nathan had his own motive for the bet – to help out Cassandra.  That’s another wrinkle in their imperfect relationship and it makes for some steamy passion once they have another conversation.

I think that we have come to expect some rough sex between these 2 and book 4 doesn’t disappoint – although i think that we’re maybe due for some variety since we know by this point that they both LOVE oral and the word ‘HARDER’.  Aside from that though, it’s goooood.

the other piece i want to point out here is that while i love a good epilogue, i’m not sure that the one that we got here was really all that valueable.  It’s a ‘six months in the future’ piece, but it doesn’t give us any insight into anything really – just of what we had come to know and expect already.  It’s actually the teaser right afterwards that really gets me excited since it sounds like we’re going to get a continuation of sorts – a new story from Nathan’s POV of a potential secret that Jessica has been hiding.  It makes me wonder for sure – since it alludes to her sexual past and someone that may be connected to Nathan.  i can’t wait until that series is available.  I hope that you guys check out this series – it’s 4 books, but they are pretty enthralling.  Enjoy!

Review: The Pulse Part 3 (Pulse Series #3) by Deborah Bladon

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Title: Pulse
Author: Deborah Bladon
Publisher/Year: Deborah Bladon 6/17/14
Length: 70
Series: The Pulse Series #3

Overview

Jessica wanted to believe Nathan was a changed man. The lust filled promises he made in bed are no match for the reality that she’s now holding in the palm of her hand. Sex drives men like Nathan Moore. She suspected it, then experienced it and now there’s absolutely no denying it.

She knows what the right thing to do is. He knows that he’s never met anyone like her.

Jessica struggles to forget him as Nathan’s desire for her consumes him. His compulsive need to possess her pushes him in ways that will change them both forever.

Just how far is Nathan Moore willing to go to have the one woman he claims he can’t live without?

My Thoughts

We all really want to believe that Nathan’s a changed man – i mean, it was his ‘sister’ that was in the hotel suite that was paid through the end of the month right?  And his excuse for the 2 phones was just soooo simple and easy to believe.

So, the saga continues for these 2 – and things keep getting more and more complicated.  while Josh – her ex from CT has gone away, Drew keeps popping up with a vengeance since he wants ‘in on Jessica’ like no one knows.  It’s going a bit too far into the sexual harassment realm that i’m wondering if that’s going to come up or not.  personally, i’d say something.

Anyhow, this 3rd installment continues on the same path as the others, some GREAT scening with these 2 – i mean, their chemistry is still intense, especially since it often starts off as hate sex.  We see a bit of Jessica getting too buzzed/drunk to know what’s going on exactly, and that leads to more trust issues with Nathan.  I find it to be interesting and i honestly would Love to know the back story with Nathan since he’s so smooth.

In this brief segue into the finale that i’ll start into next, it’s really not until the last scene again that we’re given what i’m hoping for – even more severe tension and depth that it’s not really the relationship with Nathan and Jessica that makes you wonder, but some of the other supporting folks that get in there – and their motivation.  Where we are left is to question who’s being honest – if it’s Rebecca, Nathan, Bryce (gasp) or Drew – and what that means for poor Jessica.  I can’t wait to see who talks their way out of this and who ends up happy.  I’m off to the final installment and i’ll be back with my closing remarks.

Review: Pulse Part 2 (The Pulse Series #2) by Deborah Bloden

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Title: Pulse
Author: Deborah Bladon
Publisher/Year: Deborah Bladon 5/27/14
Length: 70
Series: The Pulse Series #2

Overview

Nathan promised Jessica just one thing during those nights in his hotel room – sex unlike anything she had experienced before. She thought it would be simple, but with a man like Nathan, that’s not possible. He was complex, determined and too tempting to resist.

When her life intersects with his in the most unexpected way, she realizes that fate and chance don’t exist in his world. When Nathan wants something, or someone, he’ll have it, regardless of the cost.

As Jessica confronts the past she ran away from, the present that consumes her and what it all means for her future, one brief moment changes absolutely everything.

There is no one who can shield her from what happens next.

My Thoughts

ARGH!  just when we all thought that they were making progress, Nathan had agreed to give up his ‘f*&% pad’ in the hotel, and Jessica was letting him in more – and things go awry.

While Cassandra still doesn’t know that her ‘boyfriend’ is the same guy that Jessica is seeing, there’s the on-going annoyance to Nathan in the form of Drew – the chef from the restaurant that Jess now works at, along with the brief arrival of Josh – Jessica’s ex from CT – trying to stir things up.  I was really hoping that something good would come of this, and while it seems like it’s possible, it also doesn’t.

They still have this undeniable chemistry – their passion and heat is really intense, and it’s something that we see continue to be steamy.  I feel like our author does a great job in reminding us that Jess is only 22, although she does like to make Nathan seem a bit less polished since he’s got the mouth of a sailor – and not just in bed!

So, while Jessica is still floating on her little cloud – enjoying what her relationship with Nathan has evolved to, staying at his apt every night and the sort, he goes out of town again for the weekend to Boston to see his family.  It’s that one weekend that Rebecca (Jess’s roommate) convinces her to go out to the same bar that she met him at that things get dicey.  Jess spends the entire night thinking that every woman there has been with Nathan, and of course if that wasn’t bad enough, we’re left off on a cliff where she discovers something even more heart breaking.  I wonder what more we can learn in Part 3.  Thank goodness that it’s out already – so i can just head into that now!

Review: Pulse (The Pulse Series #1) by Deborah Bladon

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Title: Pulse
Author: Deborah Bladon
Publisher/Year: Deborah Bladon 5/16/14
Length: 70
Series: The Pulse Series #1

Overview

Jessica Roth dumped her boyfriend, moved to New York and wanted desperately to start her new life off with a bang – a literal mind-blowing, soul-shaking night of pure, raw, memory making sex.

She thought her one time chance encounter with attorney, Nathan Moore, in a hotel room would become a jumping point for her exciting, single and adventurous life in the city.

One night turned into two, into four, and into more – always at the same place, always at the same time – no last names, no personal details, and absolutely no complications.

What Jessica doesn’t count on is that in Nathan’s world boundaries are made to be pushed.

He wanted her in ways he promised he never would. She wanted him in ways she couldn’t admit.

When their lives ultimately collide outside the walls of the hotel room, Jessica is forced to face the truth about the only man who has ever made her pulse race and her body ache with unadulterated pleasure.

My Thoughts

I’m a sucker for good cover art, and when it’s a novella series, there’s really nothing at stake in case a series isn’t that great.  In this instance though, that’s not the case – it’s a really interesting take on NYC life of a newby and someone who’s been here and has their motives.

We meet Jessica when she’s been in NYC for about 2 weeks after breaking things off with her boyfriend and she’s decided that she’s in the mood for a one night stand to get the edge off.  It’s upon meeting ‘Fingers’ that her world turns upside down.  He’s the kind of guy that won’t give names, and won’t give any personal information aside from asking Jessica to meet him on Wednesdays at 10pm in his hotel suite just above the bar that they meet at – and she agrees.  Her innocence is so far gone that it’s not surprising.

This quick journey that we go on takes us down a road of seeing whether the mystery guy – Nathan is open to looking for more than just one night a week w/ Jessica, and understanding what his motivation there is.  They both seem to be developing some type of pull towards one another, but it’s never clear to what extent aside from the amazing sex that they have.  It’s combustive chemistry – that’s for sure – we don’t get more than a line into it when they are together without seeing them intertwined in the roughest of ways.

Of course though, the other shoe will drop – and it’s when Jess is working for her ‘boss’ as a private chef that things take a turn that to he was unexpected – but to me, well, i’m a cynic and i was expecting it.  I think that it’ll be great to see what happens now in book 2, since holes are being dug deep – and someone’s going to get burned.