All I Want Is You [Mass Market Paperback]

Holiday Seduction

3 stars
Cute quickie holiday read. Mikkie and Barry had great chemistry from the beginning. They had a couple hot and heavy love scenes that I didn't expect at all which made the story all the more interesting. Overall just an ok read.

Her Holiday Gifts

4.25 Stars
This was such a good love story. Gabriel and Malisa had a humorous meeting which let to a hot steamy start of their relationship. Delores brought a ton of friction. She was really some piece of work. I wouldn't have mind this being a full story instead of a short because the story was that good. Definitely the star of these two stories.

After an unexpected break-up with Alexander and an even more surprising encounter with an old high school friend, Mikki Harper headed to Florida and her sister's wedding, welcoming the change and to quite possibly make some sense of it all. However, in Kayla Perrin's Holiday Seduction, Mikki will find that events that happen out of the blue may certainly be what she truly needs in her life.

Will this be Mikki's best Christmas ever, or will she return to New York the way she left?

Holiday time, caterers and specialty bakers are usually brought together, but the way Malisa Ivey met Gabriel Whitman would certainly go down in the record books for chance encounters at Christmas time. Having been locked into a make-shift cake for a special cake prepared for the man of honor himself, Malisa could not hide her embarrassment or her immediate attraction to the man.

Will this special baked encounter lead to more, or will the confectionary delight turn sour before it could be tasted in Deborah Fletcher Mello's Her Holiday Gift.

I enjoyed reading All I Want is You because it put me in the mind of the Christmas jingle and the fact that it is still possible, and because it is a wonderful read to curl up with during the holiday season. I recommend this book to anyone who loves romance and special holiday stories.

This book was provided to me courtesy of the publisher for review purposes.

Review by Sharel E. Gordon-Love
APOOO BookClub

Holiday Seduction by Kayla Perrin

Mikki Harper has just broken up with her boyfriend of two years and is out with her girls drowning her sorrows when she meets the most handsome guy she has ever laid eyes on. After a few drinks too many, Mikki ends up in bed with "Fairy" Barry. Barry Sanders turns out to be Mikki's safe, chubby, nerdy friend from high school. Boy has time been good to him! Once Mikki realizes what she has done, she quickly leaves Barry's hotel room thinking she will never see him again. Unfortunately fate was not so kind. Mikki runs into Barry again in Florida at her sister's wedding. During this time Mikki changes her image, the two of them make some startling realizations, and Mikki's ex comes to Florida to win her back. Hopefully it's not too late for everything to work out as it should.

Holiday Seduction is a good read by Kayla Perrin. It is a feel good story that draws you in. Perrin does a good job of developing the primary and secondary characters. She also does a good job of keeping the story flowing. Nice holiday read.

Her Holidays Gifts by Deborah Fletcher Mello

Restaurant/bakery owner Malisa Ivey finds herself in an awkward position when she gets locked inside of a cake box and delivered to the office of her handsome client, Gabriel Whitman. Gabriel could not believe the beautiful woman he just rescued from a cake box of all places. He and Malisa are drawn to each other immediately, and they decide to see where it could lead. There is only one problem: Gabriel's ex-wife and mother of his son. She is determined to get Gabriel back. Malisa is not sure she wants a ready made family, especially one with so much drama, but she quickly decides that Gabriel is a man worth fighting for.

Her Holiday Gifts was a good read by Deborah Fletcher Mello. Fletcher Mello does a great job of making the story flow without lagging moments and with character development. The only problem that I had with the story was the abrupt ending. The ex-wife causes all kinds of problems, there is a a brief conversation between Malisa and the ex-wife, and then Malisa is with Gabriel and his son. Problem solved! All the drama that is built up throughout the story and it gets resolved with a brief conversation. That was a little disappointing, but other than that, Her Holiday Gifts was a good story.