Heat

I'm a fan of Opal books. See has great story line with amazing characters. You feel for each one & you want keep turning pages to what will happen next. Rikki has heartbreaking history in which holding her back. She meet Simon and Carter she can't believe she has these feelings for two men, which are friends and firefighters. I hope Opal maybe have another book with these characters 💜💜💜

I'm sorry. But I just can't read another story that has a woman saying or doing something stupid ( like a real person wouldn't) just to add drama to the plot. I quit reading because it was one stupid decision too many. I lost interest in her character.

While I really hate giving bad and/or totally negative reviews, in this case, the best thing I can say about this book is that I forced myself to finish reading it.When I first read the blurb about a 17-year-old girl losing her first love, a 24-year-old fireman, in a fire, and remaining a virgin until she finally moves to a new town and starts over, begins pursuing a career as a photographer, whose first gig is creating a sexy firemen calendar, it sounded interesting. Sadly, it was all downhill from there, and gets a one-star rating from this reader.First night in a new town and Rikki (the heroine) goes to the local pick-up bar with her former college girlfriend, where she is picked up by not one, but two very sexy men. She gets a "feeling" every time she touches the right man, or in this case men, so this shy virgin, getting more drunk by the minute, goes home with them. At least they have enough honor to realize she's too drunk to make this decision, but when she sobers up in their apartment the next morning, it's game on, and the innocent, never been touched virgin, decides to lose her virginity to both men, she's suddenly adept at fellatio, can't stop the dirty talk, and loses her virginity to both extremely well-hung men without even a twinge of pain. Give me a break! If my eyes had rolled any further back in my head, I'd have been able to see behind myself.The next day she goes to the firehouse and it's no surprise that both men, Simon and Carter, are firefighters there. That's when the waffling begins and it doesn't let up at all. Most of it consists of "I can't fall in love with a firefighter because Jesse (her first love) died in a fire, but I love them both, oh my, what shall I do?" If the author had left Rikki's age at 17, this infantile, inner debate might have been more believable, because at 26, the whole insta-love plot line, when they've all had way more sex than learn anything about one another, might have been more than laughable. The men are in insta-love with her too, except what they're really in love with is the fact that their little virgin is ready and willing to have sex with them, in any position at any time, anywhere. Rikki barely bats an eye when they suggest double penetration to this newly deflowered virgin.I've read a lot a erotic romance over the years, and there are some wonderful writers in the genre, who somehow manage to include a plot and backstory that makes you care about what happens to the characters. I'm fairly new to this author, but after finishing this book, I realized that it was little more than one sex scene after another, none of them particularly titillating, and held together with almost no plot, no character development, a thready backstory (only about the heroine, there no backstory on the two men), and not much else. The heroine was too emotionally immature to be taken seriously and all of the characters behaved as if they were still in grade school. I'm sorry to say that this book was a total miss for me, and I highly recommended passing it by.I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.

RATING 3.5 STARSHeat is by Opal Carew.Rikki is a photographer just trying to get started. She has just moved to Muldona, Virginia to be near her college best friend, Cassie. Cassie wants to help her get started so proposes a sexy calendar of the local firefighters to help to raise funds. But Rikki is very cautious of firefighters. Several years before, she had been engaged to a firefighter but he was killed.The night before she is to start the project, she goes out with her new roommates and feels a strong electrical attraction to not one but two men sitting at the bar. How could this even be possible? Her intuition has never led her astray before but this time, it must be the stress of living in a new city.Simon Davies and Carter Fenn are best friends, roommates, and both are fire fighters. They have shared women before but neither have ever experienced this deep attraction to another woman. They’ll do whatever needs to be done but they will make her theirs.Rikki had been saving herself for her now deceased fire fighter so who could have ever guessed that when it’s time to give up her “V” card, it would be to not one but two over the top sexy firefighters. But she had made herself a promise after she lost her fiance. That she could never withstand that sort of pain again. That ALL fire fighters were off limits.First, I want to say that the last book I read of Opal Carew’s I was over the moon for. But this one didn’t work for me as well. Although I don’t want to demean the pain that Rikki still carries for her ex, to me she came off as a bit whiney.Let’s also talk about when she and Simon and Carter go the distance. The sexy times in this book were scorching hot. But, wow, once Rikki crossed the bridge, she was insatiable. I mean, this woman was like a sex machine. Lucky for Carter and Simon I guess. And I didn’t like her constant indecision.All in all, this was a super sexy, quick, fun read. I just had trouble really falling for Rikki. I still do love this author and hope to read plenty more of her books in the future.

*3.5 stars*This author knows how to write ménage with all the heat and angst that comes with it! Rikki had lost her first love and wasn’t interested in risking her heart again. Too much pain, too much heartache but what happens when two men tempt her resolve? Simon and Carter were handsome firefighters who were beautiful, inside and out. And oh my my, were they tempting her…This read was all kinds of hot as Rikki worked through her reservations and Simon and Carter worked to convince her taking a chance on them was worth it. With her photography work they were thrown together quite a bit so lots of opportunity to chip away at her defenses.The back and forth was flirty and heated and offered a glimpse into how a ménage can work, and work well. While I did wish this story hadn’t been so hung up on Rikki’s fears, as it overshadowed the storyline at times, theirs was an entertaining journey and the ending made it all worthwhile. And, really, people – FIREMEN!!!!*Reviewed for 1-Click Addict Support Group**Reviewed for NetGalley

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