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Farrel Sisters #3
Sweet as Sugar, Hot as Spice
Stir Things Up...And Turn on the Heat Sweet as Sugar As owner and operator of Sugar and Spice Sinema, Eve Farrel creates red-hot how-to videos that help couples go from mild to wild. But Eve herself is single-and her famous feminist mother is determined to keep her that way. The only way Eve can get her mom off her back is to do the unthinkable-like get married. Hot as Spice Linc Adams is a bad-boy Nascar driver whose love life is even faster than his car. The last thing he wants is to follow in his father's footsteps and run for mayor of his Georgia town. Hoping to blow his electoral chances, he agrees to marry Eve. Surely, her knockout looks and steamy career will shock conservative voters! But Linc's in for a shock himself on his wedding night. This fast-track ladies' man is about to learn a trick or two about lovemaking ... while Eve is about to learn something new about love.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2005
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Kimberly Raye
138 books460 followersI've always been an incurable romantic. While I enjoy reading all types of fiction, my favorites, the books that touch my soul, are romance novels. From sexy to thrilling, sweet to humorous, I like them all. But what I really love is writing romance--the hotter the better!
I started my first novel back in high school and have been writing ever since. To date, I've published over thirty novels, one of them a prestigious RITA Award nominee, Romance Writers of America's highest award of excellence. I have also been nominated by Romantic Times magazine for several Reviewer's Choice awards, as well as a career achievement award.
I've written for several different publishers, including Harlequin Books, Leisure Books, Berkley/Jove, St. Martin's Press and Warner Books. Born and bred in the Lone Start State, I still live deep in the heart with my real-life hero, Curt, and our young children.
Like any over-worked, under-appreciated wife and mother, I have very little free time. But when I find a few precious moments, I LOVE to read. Some of my favorite authors include Janet Evanovich, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Charlaine Harris (see my Favorite Reads page for more) and the exceptionally talented Nina Bangs. Give me a bag of Sugar Babies, a Toby Keith or Kevin Fowler CD (I love Texas music), and a great book, and I'm in heaven!
I started my first novel back in high school and have been writing ever since. To date, I've published over thirty novels, one of them a prestigious RITA Award nominee, Romance Writers of America's highest award of excellence. I have also been nominated by Romantic Times magazine for several Reviewer's Choice awards, as well as a career achievement award.
I've written for several different publishers, including Harlequin Books, Leisure Books, Berkley/Jove, St. Martin's Press and Warner Books. Born and bred in the Lone Start State, I still live deep in the heart with my real-life hero, Curt, and our young children.
Like any over-worked, under-appreciated wife and mother, I have very little free time. But when I find a few precious moments, I LOVE to read. Some of my favorite authors include Janet Evanovich, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Charlaine Harris (see my Favorite Reads page for more) and the exceptionally talented Nina Bangs. Give me a bag of Sugar Babies, a Toby Keith or Kevin Fowler CD (I love Texas music), and a great book, and I'm in heaven!
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October 21, 2013
Jacqueline Farrel is a womanist, which is not really the same as a feminist, but close. She looks down on marriage as a man made institution to enslave women. Jacqueline is a famous tv show hostess, and she preaches the Holy Commitment Trinity: a solid foundation of shared interests, mutual respect, and great sex. After 30 plus years, her own Holy Commitment man has grown rebellious lately, and she really doesn’t know how to handle him. He wants to marry her! He has taken over her apartment lately, changed the tape for her answering machine, and she really doesn’t like seeing his socks in the livingroom and the toilet seat up all the time. But Donovan seems determined this time. This leaves Jacqueline with only one option: to move in with her only unmarried daughter, Eve.
Eve was always the rebel of the family, doing everything her mother doesn’t like, but so far, she has not found the man she wants to settle down with. And at the moment, she is really focused on working on her career. She cannot deal with a mother who wants to spend more quality time with her, as her mother drives her crazy.
So when she meets an old blind date at her sisters wedding, who has his own problems to deal with, the solution seems clear: marry him, pretend it is for love, while it will only lasts 9 months, and their problems will have been solved.
Eve has a successful company making instructional sex films for couples. And now a major network has asked her to do a series of documentaries, and Eve thinks it might be her big break to become the director of a major movie, her secret dream.
Eve was set up on a blind date with NASCAR driver Linc Adams a few months ago. And even though she was very much attracted to him, he acted like a real jerk and she walked out on him. This really surprised Linc, as women usually bought this act hook, line and sinker. He has become a race car driver on a later age than usual. His family has been in politics for generations, and his career has been plotted for him since the cradle. But he doesn’t want to be in politics at all, even though he has a law degree and was a successful public defender. When his grandfather died, he overheard his father cursing the dead man for ruining his life, and Linc is determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps. He does not want to hate his life and his parents for making him do things he does not want. And so he took up NASCAR racing for real, while his parents still think he will be the next major of their city. But Linc wants his best friend to win, as he is much better qualified for the job. If only he can ruin his reputation even more in the eyes of his voters … And marriage to a free spirit goth person like Eve might be just the thing …
And so they end up married after the bride and groom and most of the guests have driven off. Giving Eve’s mother almost a heart attack when she witnesses the last part of it. How can all three of her daughters so easily throw away everything she has thought them?
And now her mother is staying with her as well, and she is 71, and looking for a man to have her first orgasm with herself. Usually this would make her proud, a woman who knows what she wants and goes after it, but this is her mother! Sure, her mother had a horrible marriage to an abusive man, and when he died young, raised her and later her three granddaughters almost on her own, she never found someone to love. But hearing her talk about this, is just too much!
Meanwhile, Eve is really disappointed in Linc on their wedding night, and is determined not to have sex with him again, and Linc is completely amazed when he realised she faked an orgasm with him. And with the help of her own instructional dvd’s, he is intent on doing better the next time, and to woo her into staying married after all…
I really enjoyed this book. It was fun and fast and well written. Of course, the mother is a bit over the top, but she believed in what she preaches, and I admire her for that. We see a bit more of the NASCAR world when Linc is racing, and winning the Daytona. It was also fun to see Eve act out while in Linc’s home town, needling his parents and making a friend of his kid sister. Yes, I enjoyed everything about this book basically.
8 stars.
Eve was always the rebel of the family, doing everything her mother doesn’t like, but so far, she has not found the man she wants to settle down with. And at the moment, she is really focused on working on her career. She cannot deal with a mother who wants to spend more quality time with her, as her mother drives her crazy.
So when she meets an old blind date at her sisters wedding, who has his own problems to deal with, the solution seems clear: marry him, pretend it is for love, while it will only lasts 9 months, and their problems will have been solved.
Eve has a successful company making instructional sex films for couples. And now a major network has asked her to do a series of documentaries, and Eve thinks it might be her big break to become the director of a major movie, her secret dream.
Eve was set up on a blind date with NASCAR driver Linc Adams a few months ago. And even though she was very much attracted to him, he acted like a real jerk and she walked out on him. This really surprised Linc, as women usually bought this act hook, line and sinker. He has become a race car driver on a later age than usual. His family has been in politics for generations, and his career has been plotted for him since the cradle. But he doesn’t want to be in politics at all, even though he has a law degree and was a successful public defender. When his grandfather died, he overheard his father cursing the dead man for ruining his life, and Linc is determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps. He does not want to hate his life and his parents for making him do things he does not want. And so he took up NASCAR racing for real, while his parents still think he will be the next major of their city. But Linc wants his best friend to win, as he is much better qualified for the job. If only he can ruin his reputation even more in the eyes of his voters … And marriage to a free spirit goth person like Eve might be just the thing …
And so they end up married after the bride and groom and most of the guests have driven off. Giving Eve’s mother almost a heart attack when she witnesses the last part of it. How can all three of her daughters so easily throw away everything she has thought them?
And now her mother is staying with her as well, and she is 71, and looking for a man to have her first orgasm with herself. Usually this would make her proud, a woman who knows what she wants and goes after it, but this is her mother! Sure, her mother had a horrible marriage to an abusive man, and when he died young, raised her and later her three granddaughters almost on her own, she never found someone to love. But hearing her talk about this, is just too much!
Meanwhile, Eve is really disappointed in Linc on their wedding night, and is determined not to have sex with him again, and Linc is completely amazed when he realised she faked an orgasm with him. And with the help of her own instructional dvd’s, he is intent on doing better the next time, and to woo her into staying married after all…
I really enjoyed this book. It was fun and fast and well written. Of course, the mother is a bit over the top, but she believed in what she preaches, and I admire her for that. We see a bit more of the NASCAR world when Linc is racing, and winning the Daytona. It was also fun to see Eve act out while in Linc’s home town, needling his parents and making a friend of his kid sister. Yes, I enjoyed everything about this book basically.
8 stars.
© 2013 Reviews by Aurian
May 12, 2008
Kimberly Raye finishes up her Farrel Sisters Trilogy with SWEET AS SUGAR, HOT AS SPICE, and boy, does she go out with a bang! If you haven't read the stories of Skye Farrel in KISS ME ONCE, KISS ME TWICE or that of Xandra Farrel in SOMETIMES NAUGHTY, SOMETIMES NICE, you'll want to pick those two up at the bookstore when you run out to purchase SWEET AS SUGAR, HOT AS SPICE.
Eve Farrel is starting to panic. She's recently watched both her older and younger sister find their happily-ever-afters and settle down in marital bliss-to the complete shock, dismay, and chagrin of their very famous feminist and anti-marriage mother, Jacqueline. Now that mom only has one single daughter left, she's determined that Eve will stay that way, no matter what. Jacqueline is driving Eve nuts, to the point that she now believes there's only one way to get her mother to leave her alone, once and for all-find a man, fast, and get married, even faster.
Fortunately for Eve, there's a man who is having a very similar problem. Linc "Shooter" Adams is known on the NASCAR circuit as a bad boy, a skirt-chaser who knows no limits-on or off the track. Everyone and their brother knows that Linc's family is urging him to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming Mayor of his hometown, and nothing Linc says to the contrary will convince the constituency that he doesn't want a life of politics. In the current poll, he's even ahead of his best friend, Craig Sanders, the man Linc wants more than anything to win the election. Desperate measures are called for, and taking a very unsuitable woman as his wife just might do the trick.
Eve is definitely an unsuitable politician's wife. As the owner of Sugar & Spice Sinema, a company that produces how-to sexual videos for couples who want to up their sex lives a few notches, Linc knows that marrying Eve Farrel will stop any Mayoral races cold. As for Eve, what better way to get her mother off her back than to marry Shooter, the ladies man of NASCAR?
Kimberly Raye has written a laugh-out-loud romance story that has two people thrown together as a matter of convenience, and learning to love each other as a matter of the heart. Eve finds out pretty quickly that Linc isn't as bad as he'd like the world to believe, and Linc in turn realizes that there's more to Eve than a sexy body. As these two find a balance between the desires of their family and the desires of their own bodies, it's a joy to be along for the ride.
Eve Farrel is starting to panic. She's recently watched both her older and younger sister find their happily-ever-afters and settle down in marital bliss-to the complete shock, dismay, and chagrin of their very famous feminist and anti-marriage mother, Jacqueline. Now that mom only has one single daughter left, she's determined that Eve will stay that way, no matter what. Jacqueline is driving Eve nuts, to the point that she now believes there's only one way to get her mother to leave her alone, once and for all-find a man, fast, and get married, even faster.
Fortunately for Eve, there's a man who is having a very similar problem. Linc "Shooter" Adams is known on the NASCAR circuit as a bad boy, a skirt-chaser who knows no limits-on or off the track. Everyone and their brother knows that Linc's family is urging him to follow in his father's footsteps by becoming Mayor of his hometown, and nothing Linc says to the contrary will convince the constituency that he doesn't want a life of politics. In the current poll, he's even ahead of his best friend, Craig Sanders, the man Linc wants more than anything to win the election. Desperate measures are called for, and taking a very unsuitable woman as his wife just might do the trick.
Eve is definitely an unsuitable politician's wife. As the owner of Sugar & Spice Sinema, a company that produces how-to sexual videos for couples who want to up their sex lives a few notches, Linc knows that marrying Eve Farrel will stop any Mayoral races cold. As for Eve, what better way to get her mother off her back than to marry Shooter, the ladies man of NASCAR?
Kimberly Raye has written a laugh-out-loud romance story that has two people thrown together as a matter of convenience, and learning to love each other as a matter of the heart. Eve finds out pretty quickly that Linc isn't as bad as he'd like the world to believe, and Linc in turn realizes that there's more to Eve than a sexy body. As these two find a balance between the desires of their family and the desires of their own bodies, it's a joy to be along for the ride.
September 24, 2014
~3.5/5
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
This was a pretty average, but good book.
I liked the characters, and really enjoyed getting to know them. I liked Eve and her outrageous self, and how Linc was trying to appear worse than he actually was. I liked their getting together, and how their relationship developed. At times I would have liked them to get together faster, but that’s okay. I particularly liked that they had problems in the sex department, that things didn’t go perfectly right from the start, and that they worked at it to make it better. I don’t think I’ve ever read that in a book before, and I really liked that. After they got better, though, they didn’t have any problems ever again with the sex, but that’s okay. I did like the ending, aside from how cheesy and showy it was, but that’s okay, too.
I liked Eve’s family, and might pick up another of Raye’s books to get to know them better. Although I didn’t really like how anti-man/marriage Eve’s mother was. That just went a little too far for me, but, you know, that’s okay.
This was a fun book, I enjoyed it. It had a couple problems, but overall it was pretty good.
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
This was a pretty average, but good book.
I liked the characters, and really enjoyed getting to know them. I liked Eve and her outrageous self, and how Linc was trying to appear worse than he actually was. I liked their getting together, and how their relationship developed. At times I would have liked them to get together faster, but that’s okay. I particularly liked that they had problems in the sex department, that things didn’t go perfectly right from the start, and that they worked at it to make it better. I don’t think I’ve ever read that in a book before, and I really liked that. After they got better, though, they didn’t have any problems ever again with the sex, but that’s okay. I did like the ending, aside from how cheesy and showy it was, but that’s okay, too.
I liked Eve’s family, and might pick up another of Raye’s books to get to know them better. Although I didn’t really like how anti-man/marriage Eve’s mother was. That just went a little too far for me, but, you know, that’s okay.
This was a fun book, I enjoyed it. It had a couple problems, but overall it was pretty good.
February 11, 2013
Review written for www.books-n-kisses.com
The thing I liked best about this story? Everything. Well, ok, the NASCAR information was no longer accurate since the book was originally published in 2005 but that is ok. I really liked that there were problems. Not problems that we normally see but real life problems. They get married first and have sex later and she fakes an orgasm and he knows it. Now how do they get through that? Her mom is a pain and his parents are set in their ways. She expects him to be ignorant and he expects her to be wild. And so now they are married and they have to deal with everything else.
I could have also used a bit of a different ending. Where was the dramatic scene with the parents? I missed that! But other than that it really is a great story. I read the first one in the series and somehow missed the second but I will be backtracking to read it.
If you enjoy a non-perfect romance then this is the story for you.
Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
The thing I liked best about this story? Everything. Well, ok, the NASCAR information was no longer accurate since the book was originally published in 2005 but that is ok. I really liked that there were problems. Not problems that we normally see but real life problems. They get married first and have sex later and she fakes an orgasm and he knows it. Now how do they get through that? Her mom is a pain and his parents are set in their ways. She expects him to be ignorant and he expects her to be wild. And so now they are married and they have to deal with everything else.
I could have also used a bit of a different ending. Where was the dramatic scene with the parents? I missed that! But other than that it really is a great story. I read the first one in the series and somehow missed the second but I will be backtracking to read it.
If you enjoy a non-perfect romance then this is the story for you.
Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
December 24, 2012
Linc Adams is trying to keep his bad-boy image as a Nascar Driver... His family has different carrier plans~ following in the family's political footsteps and becoming mayor. What can call a stop to the madness ~ marrying a woman whose career would stun the voters. Eve is the owner of a production company that specialized in how-to sex videos. Catch the hilarious and sensual interaction between these great characters...there is even two secondary stories that you will enjoy in this fast-track read. Oh, I miss the first two books in this series, and plan on reading them when I can. Don't miss this one!!
September 4, 2007
Main character and NASCAR guy marry for ulterior reasons and end up falling in love. Steamy. I found out mid way through that this was book 3 of 3. I was disappointed as I would have read all three otherwise. Would read Kimberley Raye again.
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July 30, 2014I picked this book up out of my bookshelves as something different (out of like 350+ plus books, 90% are murder mysteries). It was short, caught my attention and I managed to read the whole thing in one day!
December 25, 2009
Book three in a group of three related books--not necessarily a trilogy. Hot and sweet.
May 24, 2009
I really liked this one!! I didn't think I would, so I was pleasantly surprised.
April 28, 2017
It is a great book to read
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