Hot in Here:She wasn't his kind of dish-until someone turned up the heat...
Celebrity chef and infamous ladies' man Bryce Ryder can't believe the thoughts he's having about his old friend Jenna McCabe. She's always been the shy girl next- door, but when some bad publicity threatens everything he's built, Jenna gets down to business- and shows a side of herself that is take-charge and totally irresistible.
Soon things are heating up in and out of the kitchen-and all of Jenna's secret fantasies about Bryce start coming true. But will she be the one to tame his heart, or is the sexy chef just indulging another one of his cravings?
Review: This is this author's debut novel?! Hot in Here is a very good novel, not perfect, but damn good for a first published story. It was hot. That was done right. I did not like, however, how Jenna attempts to be the 'I just want sex not a commitment' seductress. I hate when authors force the characters to turn themselves inside out and make them go against their beliefs to try and get a man. If you can't be yourself and express you're feelings, why go after the guy if he is that shallow and chauvinistic. Jenna is so hard headed and defensive that she totally misses Bryce's obvious feelings. Of course, Bryce is not above reproach as you will read, yet to this reader Jenna was annoying too often. At times I felt like I was reading Andre's Take Me and that is not necessarily a good thing in my opinion. On the point of Jenna's size. The author takes great pains early on that Jenna is not a size zero, has tits and ass and is very curvy. Then she dashes it to the earth with her feet my making pains to state that she in not plus sized or over a size 14. Whatever, sure she's curvy but not fat or plus sized. It was at odds with comments made by other characters in the story. On this point she does have a plus sized sister and hopefully she will feature in her own book as there were hints in this story. So I look forward to a Trey and Sarah story (HINT, HINT!!), while I enjoy this keeper and reread.
