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When Jasmine accidentally blurts out
her desire for sex with her best friend, she doesn't do it
in a way that can be easily recanted. Not only that, but
Reese isn't interested in letting her take back the words
her unruly tongue let slip.
After they agree to “scratch an itch”,
they come up with some rules. Ones that seem easy to follow
at first, but become harder as time goes on.
Conquering Jazz will keep
you on your toes through the steamy sex, the rowdiness of
friends and family, and the heartaches of the past. The
beginning of the story is hot and inviting, drawing you in
for more. After I had read the first sixty pages I began to
feel as if I was in a soap opera. We met a lot of Jazz's
female friends, and her multitude of brothers. I can't tell
you the exact number of them, but it seemed that her friends
equaled the number of her brothers. To help matters, her
friends were all strongly attracted to her brothers, and
since all of them, male and female alike, were successful
business owners, partners, or in a well paying job, things
seemed oh so convenient. Slipping into other characters
points of view also took away from the intimacy of Reese and
Jasmine's tale.
Hoping for some spin off stories,
because I did enjoy some of the banter between Jazz's
friends and brothers, I kept on reading. I wanted to see
Reese capture Jasmine's heart. Then the ex-fiancé appears on
the scene, and Jazz pushes Reese away. I read on hoping that
she didn't go back to the louse. Jazz's strong reactions to
her ex and Reese really made me uncomfortable. I kept
reading expecting something really horrible, but didn't find
a good reason for Jazz to act as she did. A woman scorned
will have anger and rage, but she kept referencing that none
of her friends but one knew the whole sordid tale, and even
when I learned that I kept waiting for something to be
terrible enough to explain how she was treating Reese.
I thought Jazz wasn't good enough for
Reese. While that sounds like a bad review, it's not. That
McKenna Jeffries could make me feel so strongly for her hero
is very good. I would have preferred some groveling on the
heroine's part. If there are stories about Jasmine's
brothers, I would definitely want to read them. Especially
Mia's story. |