GRR Reviews Hero In My Bed by Piper Sullivan

Preston is with town's search and rescue. Definitely a hero of sorts, and the town's golden boy. But he can't keep his eyes away from the sassy bartender Nina... And the town, making a charity calender of the hometown beefcakes is definitely going to bring them together... Nina tries to resist the temptation... but Preston wanted to make her his forever...

Didn't feel much about this one. Nothing really stands out. 3/5

GRR Reviews Seal's Professor by Piper Sullivan

SEAL's professor failed to follow reality, and had the bodyguard failed SEVERAL times at his job. Overall, it's just a STUPID novel.

Delaney Watson is a modern day genius that can rival Einstein, and is teaching at Stanford at a young age of 25, while doing important research that can revolutionize power generation as we know it. Her genius also made her a target for espionage... and sabotage. Enter Bennett Atlas, navy SEAL (active) assigned as her TA (teaching assistant), undercover, of course. He's model gorgeous, big, charming, and protective. And she fell for him, hard. He can protect her from harm, but can he protect his own heart?

Right off the bat, the fiction departed from reality in a major way. SEAL, esp. active duty SEALs, CANNOT be deployed within the continental US, even for undercover assignments. SEALs are not cops or spies. They are SOLDIERS (or sailors, as they insist) That's against the navy's equivalent of the *Posse Comitatus* act. For that matter, Atlas is a LOUSY bodyguard. Not only he left Laney got manhandled at the dance club, he failed to detect the saboteurs trying to burn them out of her home (too busy bonking her hours before). And in the end, he resigned from the SEALs to marry her. Whop-pee-dee. Happy, yes. STUPID? Absolutely.

The version I originally downloaded was over 1000 pages. I'm glad to see in the current version, the "bonus content" had been nuked, leaving a 135 page "short novel". But really, there are much better SEAL romances out there.

Category: Contemporary / Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: Undercover SEAL assigned to genius lady professor have to protect her from harm and she fell for him...

Overall Rating: 1/5

NOTE: Tropes are now in the "Labels" below. 

GRR Reviews Cowboy's Barmaid: A Small Town Military by Piper Sullivan

Cowboy's Barmaid is a "fling to a thing" romance with several tropes as a setup. It really introduced no new ground, nor was it that well polished. The bonus content didn't help much either.

Sierra had a crush on Jack for the longest time, but he's her best friend's big brother, and he doesn't see her as girlfriend material. Then he went off to joined the army. She kept writing him letters. Now he's back in town, and they reluctantly became business partners when she wanted to buy back her ancestral ranch, but doesn't have time to run it, while he's familiar with ranching, but have no ranch to run. Then came the Halloween party... and everything changed...

Honestly, nothing special about this setup. No obvious plot holes, but nothing memorable either. At 995 pages, it included several "bonus" stories but they are not that well polished either.

Category: Contemporary / Western

Primary Plot: Guy is back from the army and the girl who admired from afar is now a woman and wanted him, but will they enjoy it?

Tropes: fling to a thing, military, small town, reunion, return, bartender

Overall Rating:  3/5

GRR Reviews Wrangling the Cowboy: An Older Man & by Piper Sullivan

Wrangling the Cowboy is an "old man / young woman" romance involving a cowboy and a younger woman. There wasn't anything special in the romance though.

Struggling cook Clara Bloom is going nowhere at 23, and the only job she can find was cooking for a ranch (and housekeeper) for a guy who seems to barely tolerate her, even though he's one beefcake she'd like to... uh... never mind. She still has her V-card, and he's her boss. But Asher Hawthrone did not grow up ranching. He was a city slicker once, an investment banker. When his heart almost gave out, he changed careers and traded his condo for a ranch. When his wife didn't like the change of scenery, he divorced her. He's done with city girls... Until Clara came along... But she wanted to open a restaurant... in the city. The two should not want each other, but they do...

Nothing really memorable between the two. The plot unfolded just like a template formula. It's competent, but really shows no spark of creativity, or clever twists.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Virgin chef fell for her hot but older ranch boss who seems to barely tolerate her

Tropes: May / September, virgin, ranch, chef, hot for boss

Overall Rating: 3/5