GUEST REVIEWER: Sherry | Love Me | Bella Andrea | Smashwords

Title: Love Me 

Author:  Bella Andre

Publisher: Kindle / Smashwords / Amazon Paperback
Genre:  Romance/Erotic/Contempory    

ISBN:1453669973 / 9781453669976

Length : 110 Pages

Heat Level:  Explicit/Hot

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Review by:   Sherry 

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If you removed all the sex scenes from this book, it would be a very quick and short read, but you’d still be left with a good story, well rounded and loveable characters, and a depth to the ‘plot’ that would have you fighting to turn the pages – because the steam coming off the pages would have them sticking together.

The author has crafted characters who are damaged, but their individual strengths shine through and make them who they are. It is the skilful writing of Bella Andre that prevents this from becoming a sex-drenched story into an erotic exchange of passion and love that flourishes under adverse conditions.

Her heroine, Janica Ellis, a self-employed designer, is seen by most as a wild-child and believer in ‘free-sex’, reveals her true self when surgeon, Luke Carson, turns up at her home and gives her a night of passion she’s never experienced before.  That night changes her for ever.   

Luke Carson, ER surgeon is on a mission to save the world.  He works too hard, forgets how to play, and eventually burns himself out and is forced to hand over to a colleague when he realises he’s too tired to perform a life-saving operation. For a reason he can’t explain he turns up at his sister-in-law’s house after leaving the hospital they seek consolation in each other’s arms.

Bella Andre takes her hero and heroine on an emotional roller-coaster ride during which they have to recognise their unclaimed baggage and then discard the stuff that’s no longer relevant in their lives.  And she doesn’t give them much time in which to do it.

There is explicit sex on almost every page and yet the characters shine through inspite of it, not because of it.

If you enjoy a good story, with strong characters, explicit sex, and emotional depth, then this is a story for you.

About Bella Andre:

Bella Andre has always been a writer. Songs came first, and then non-fiction books, but as soon as she started her first romance novel, she knew she'd found her perfect career. Since selling her first book in 2003, she's written thirteen "sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance" (Publisher's Weekly) about sizzling alpha heroes and the strong women they'll love forever for Pocket, Bantam Dell and Grand Central Publishing. If not behind her computer, you can find her reading, hiking, knitting, or lunching with her favorite romance writing ladies.

Bella lives with her fabulous husband and children in both Northern California and a ninety-year-old lakefront log cabin in New York's Adirondacks.

Please visit her at http://www.BellaAndre.com

About Reviewer Sherry Gloag:

Writing as Sherry Gloag, Jackie has been reviewing books for eighteen months now and is so please to me part of this reveiw team. She has been writing, off and on, for several years.  She wrote five novels in the 1990's, all were returned.  A magazine article paid well and gifted her a clock she still has today.  For two years she wrote about events and activities for her local newspaper, then life intervened. 

In 2006 she began the first of her miniseries about the Hawk family.  The Wild Rose Press recently returned the first book in the series and it is ready to go househunting again.  The 2nd and 3rd novels in the series are at various stages of editing.

In 2008 Jackie began writing The Brat, which was accpeted by The Wild Rose Press at the end of 2009.  She is excitedly awaiting its release on the 1st October 2010.
Jackie loves living near the Norfolk coast in the UK. 

My Website :  My Blog :  Selenite Gifts :
The Brat: Release date, ebook and print, 1st Oct 2010 from The Wild Rose Press
Book Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smB8gnUSHak

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