Customer Reviews

His Little Black Book (Harlequin Blaze)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

His Little Black Book was my first of the Harlequin Blaze line. I just loved the premise, 3 short stories interconnecting all based out of an advertising agency when a high up sends a private text message to everyone in his phone book! It follows 3 women as they try to get to the company beach house for the "party" he has invited them to, during a hurricane!

All the stories sounded promising and started off great, but by the end of each of them I wasn't convinced by the chemistry between the characters, I think the stories were too short to make much really believable. I wanted more from all of the stories.

The best to me was the last story, Safe Text, because Cammy and Gil had a history, they already knew each other, so that made it most believable that all these feelings, emotions and naughty bits would happen between them. But overall I didn't find any of them hitting the right note for me, everything happened so quickly and ended just like that. I needed more!

All in all, I had fun with this book, great premise but the delivery was a little too quick handed for me. I look forward to trying another full length story from the Blaze line to see how I like it!

One wrong flip of a finger on his iPhone, and Jonathan Black sent out an invitation to a party to his entire contact list, instead of just the one lucky lady he wanted to join him at the company beach house. Now three of his lovely lady employees are in a panic to make it to the party that none of them were suppose to attend. With a hurricane on the way, none of them get what they are expecting.

Sophie, who sees the invite as recognition of a job well done, finds potential client Adrian at the beach house. A sexy exercise guru potential client. Who wouldn't want to be trapped in a beach house with a man starving for food and attention? Candlelight only adds to the fire between these two.

Mia, who is Jonathan's current hook up, never makes it to the beach house and finds herself stuck by the side of the road when the hurricane strikes. She gets rescued by hunky local cafe owner Kevin, who puts her to work in the kitchen, after letting her get out of her wet, white clothes. What will become of them after a wet and wild weekend in paradise?

Cammy, who is Jonathan's over worked personal assistant, gets stranded at the office and is rescued by former partner Gil. His way of helping her in the pouring rain is to do whatever to make her forget about work and their boss. But when the text message catching up with them, Cammy makes Gil take her to the beach house, and one heated argument turns into one heated encounter that neither will forget.

Heather's latest makes hurricane's sexy! The encounters in these three stories is her signature quirky style, each one as fun and sexy as the last. Bring a fan and a glass of cold lemonade. You are going to need it.

Who's been the sender of a misdirected text? Lots of people, myself included, as well as Jonathan Black in Heather MacAllister's latest Harlequin Blaze adventure, "His Little Black Book".

The three women who acted on Jonathan's text message were very lucky indeed. For although their final destiny was not the egotistical corporate kingpin Jonathan, they each found the man of their dreams because they wanted to be the best in Jonathan's eyes.

Heather MacAllister employs her characteristic humor in this hot romance trilogy to make it the most entertaining romp I've read in ages! And hot hot hot!!! Or did I mention that before?

I completely recommend this read. It's entertaining and as a trilogy, is a read that can be consumed whole or in its smaller pieces. I thought I would only read one story at a sitting, but found myself so infatuated with the concept I couldn't put it down.

Read this book and laugh...and be tempted to rent your own condo on the beach complete with hot bachelor!

Heather MacAllister has done it again. In her latest Harlequin Blaze Encounters, His Little Black Book, she delivers three delightfully funny, short, sexy romps.

Once Jonathan Black, Peck & Davilla Media Management's playboy boss, text messages one of the ladies on his cell phone's contact list to invite her to an intimate beach party for two and inadvertently hits "ALL" instead, the fun begins--for three other couples anyway.

Looking to work her way into Jonathan's privileged circle, Sophie Callahan, an agency newbie, sticks her neck out to rescue a sinking ad campaign. Her fresh approach catches Jonathan's eye, and Sophie hopes she'll get to work on the firm's Superbowl ad campaign for up-and-coming fitness guru Adrian Dean.

When Jonathan's errant text hits Sophie's inbox, she thinks she's on her way. There are two things she doesn't count on, however: a tropical storm raging along the Texas coast where the company's beach house is located and the sexy, abs-of-steel Adrian himself being in residence when she arrives, waiting to hear her pitch.

When the lights go out, it's every man--and woman--for themselves, which makes things tough for Sophie who wants to win the ad campaign for Peck & Davilla based on her ideas' merits. But if she doesn't win over Adrian, another agency will end up designing his Superbowl ad.

Meanwhile, down the beach, Mia Weiss, another Peck & Davilla employee with a thing for Jonathan Black, thinks he's finally ready to sweep her off her feet when she gets his text inviting her to the company beach house. En route, Mia finds herself swept off her feet all right, but by a rising storm surge that pushes her car off what's left of a Surfside road. Who should come to her aid but a sexy, good-looking local she recognizes as the famous "Cowboy Surfer" from a Surfside Chamber of Commerce ad campaign?

Kevin Powell, Surfside restaurant owner, doesn't appreciate being interrupted from his task of feeding the hungry at a local storm shelter to rescue some idiot who doesn't know enough not to drive along the coast in a hurricane. The episode that ensues will have you chuckling as, despite the driving rain and wind howling around them, Kevin must still convince a doubtful Mia to let him rescue her.

In the third selection, you gotta feel poor Gil Shaughnessy's pain. For years, he's been in love with Cammy Phillips, Jonathan's beautiful but vastly under-appreciated assistant. Gil has tried everything in the hopes of attracting the elusive Cammy's attention. Unfortunately for Gil, Cammy has eyes only for her boss, whose roaming eye never quite seems to settle on her. Not that that hasn't stopped Cammy from going above and beyond in the hopes her boss will one day notice her or, at least, appreciate her abilities. When Jonathan's text lands in her inbox, Cammy is convinced she's hit the mother lode. Just one teensy problem: her car won't start. Now, how will she get to the beach house and party with the man of her dreams? She needs a knight in shining armor, and Gil fills the bill nicely. Although he had fantasized about one day coming to Cammy's rescue, stewing in a mother of a traffic jam while chauffeuring a frantic Cammy to a beach house to "party" with Jonathan is not the kind of rescue Gil had in mind.

These reads are fast-paced. Even a time-challenged reader like me could fit them in and enjoy the escape they provide at the end of a hectic day. Heather's witty prose will have you grinning for sure. And the surprise twist that waits at the end for the guy who started it all with his errant text is just too good. For all who have appreciated Heather's brand of snappy humor in her Harlequin novels, His Little Black Book won't disappoint.