GRR Reviews Twisted by Stella Andrews

Sam is a billionaire, and he owed a favor to Ryder... head of the Twisted Reapers MC. Ryder needs Sam to take Katherine aka "Kitty", one of Ryder's former... lovers (okay, "club whore"), and ruin some of the most powerful people in the land... including POTUS, and his pack of senators, all of whom are hypocritical monsters behind their public service personas. But such endeavors never go smoothly... // Katherine once wanted Ryder, and only Ryder, until he married someone even more broken than she was. Now Katherine just wanted to be free of Ryder by doing him one last favor. This would require her to be a chameleon... hide her revulsions of depravity deep, play dominant or submissive as the role requires, and entrap some of the most powerful people in the land, to completely ruin them. Sam is a nice and powerful guy... an ally... and someone had seen her soul. And she can't help but wonder... What would life with Sam be like?

Hmmm... I have a little problem with one woman being able to switch from dom to sub and play both convincingly despite lack of experience in the lifestyle.  We're talking about playing a dom to satisfy a guy who frequents dominatrices, and convince a different dom that Sam was her dom, and she's leaking information (fake, of course). But the plot twists are pretty good. 4/5

GRR Reviews Virgin for the Woodsman by Eddie Cleveland

Virgin for the Woodsman was somewhat interesting at first glance, and even somewhat romantic, then the logical problems with the plot start to make you "wait a minute, that made no sense..."

Cole killed a man to avenge his sister, and ran for the Canadian wilderness, knowing fully well the price he'll pay. He did not count on two bumbling idiots who tracked him to the right wilderness town. One's an older guy named Cecil, allegedly a private investigator and the other was Abbie, his... assistant. Cole was keeping an eye on them when Cecil got drunk that night and tried to assault Abbie in their camp. Cole had to intervene, but Abbey freaked out then sprained her ankle in her escape attempt, Cole had no choice but to kidnap Abbie and show her his secret lair, where Cole told Abbie his story...

You can probably guess where the story went from here... Abbie fell for Cole, they made passionate love, then realized they had to leave because Abbey's 'boss' is still out there, and by now they'd have called in search and rescue and his hideout would be found... then guess who showed up...

Which has a lot of logical problems...

1) How did they know that Cole did the crime, if he was as careful as he was in committing the murder, doing the vigilante thing?

2) How did these bumbling idiots knew which town in Alaska Cole went to? Why did they go despite apparently ZERO training in wilderness survival? Why THAT case in particular, even if it's the bounty? How do they think they'll apprehend him?

3) How did Cole keep his residence in the woods hidden, if he had to burn wood to keep warm? It'd show up like a beacon on infra-red, not to mention the smoke!

If you can ignore these factual and plot problems, then the book is actually decently plotted and a lot of hot sex. But the idea that they can have an HEA by living under the radar was a bit hard to believe.

Category: Romantic suspense

Primary Plot: Guy hiding out in wilderness was interrupted by girl and her boss trying to track him down and he had to save her from her boss

Tropes: protector, woman in peril, evil boss, vigilante

Overall Rating: 3/5