Customer Reviews

Take Me Tonight (The Bullet Catchers, Book 3)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Lucy Sharpe expects nothing less from her Bullet Catchers staff than skill, focus and to remain emotionally uninvolved with the client. Yet when Sage Valentine, Lucy's estranged niece, shows up at her office with a request for information about takemetonite dot com, a thrill-seeker's site for women, Lucy has trouble staying uninvolved, especially when Sage plans to arrange a fantasy abduction for herself. Sage isn't convinced her roommate committed suicide she's sure the dancer's death is related to the website. And her investigative reporter's nose for news won't let her be stopped until she learns the truth. Lucy assigns Johnny Christiano to intervene, 'rescue' Sage before she's even nabbed and then protect her and keep her from pulling any more fool stunts. But he must not let her know he's a bodyguard. Because Lucy rescued Johnny from the mob, he feels a deep sense of loyalty to her and will lie to Sage if necessary to keep her in the dark about who he really is. Johnny is easy on the eyes, good in bed and more than handy in the kitchen. At first it's easy to let Sage believe he's little more than a male prostitute. But as the stakes rise and the threat to Sage becomes more real, Johnny's caught between his loyalty to his rescuer and his growing attraction to Sage and genuine concern for her safety. TAKE ME TONIGHT is the third book in Roxanne St. Claire's Bullet Catcher series about an elite cadre of personal protection specialists. Its quick pacing and can't-put-it-down-til-you've-finished plot will give readers an exhilarating tale and a hero they won't soon forget. Johnny gives new meaning to the term 'Renaissance Man' and will have female readers everywhere begging, 'Take me tonight, Johnny. Please.' While Johnny can whip up a pasta recipe with little effort, author Roxanne St. Claire has come up with a recipe of her own -- a recipe for a winner: equal parts of thrills and suspense, a liberal dash of sensuality laced with pure lust and a pinch of laughter. Mix them thoroughly and pour between the covers of TAKE ME TONIGHT and your reading appetite will be more than whetted.

The Bullet Catchers Series:

Kill Me Twice

Thrill Me to Death

Take Me Tonight



I'm hooked on this series. The heroes are always totally edible. The stories are enthralling. Roxanne St. Claire writes terrific mystery plots that keep you interested with plenty of twists. Some scenes are so intense you'll be literally holding your breath, while your adrenaline pumps through your body. Her outcomes are never easily predicted. I also love the fact that her hero characters tend to be muscle on the outside, but tender- hearted on the inside. When these guys fall in love, they are not afraid to let their woman know it. While drawing a gun with their right hand, they are holding their lover's hand with the left. "Johnny", the hero in "Take Me Tonight", fits that roll gorgeously. (And I do mean "gorgeous"! If you see his photo on Roxanne St. Clare's web site, it is the exact photo that is described of him in the midst of this story. Holy cow! HOT!!!!! Is it legal to look that good?!)



Sage Valentine is an investigative reporter. She now is desperately investigating the murder of her best friend. She approaches her Aunt Lucy, founder of the Bullet Catchers, for help with the case. Lucy turns her down. Bullet Catchers are bodyguards, not detectives. However, Lucy knows that her niece is bound to keep hunting for answers. To keep Sage safe, Lucy sends her most loyal Bullet Catcher undercover. Johnny Christiano is given the task of hiding his position with the BC's so that he can watch out for Sage. Sage thinks he is just a beautiful man who wants to be her boyfriend. Johnny finds himself truly wanting that more and more. He fears Sage will never forgive him when she learns that he has lied about his identity.

Sage's deceased friend, Keisha, was a cheerleader for Boston's NBA team, The Blizzard. Strange things are happening to Keisha's teammates. Some are disappearing, then showing up with memory loss. Others are being found dead. Keisha's death was pronounced a suicide. Sage doesn't believe it. To get the answers she seeks, Sage will dig into the twisted world that Keisha and her teammates are struggling to survive. Johnny can do nothing to convince Sage to stay out of danger. His only choice is to follow her in and help her find the answers, while keeping himself between Sage and those who would see her dead before she learns too much.



My only disappointment with this book was Sage's character. I admire a heroine who is brave and strong. However I'm always turned off when "brave" crosses over to "completely without common sense". Johnny would try to scope out dangerous situations, gun in hand, moving room to room in silence, telling Sage to wait until he is sure it is safe. Instead of seeing the sense in that, Sage would totally ignore him and walk right into the room loudly and unarmed. Is she bullet proof, suicidal, or just stupid? It really bothers me when women are written to be so brainless.
Worse, was the fact that Sage was extremely hypocritical. Part of Johnny's cover was pretending to work for a company where men would sleep with the clients. Over and over she referred to him as a "male prostitute". She had no respect for him because of the job. However, she believed that it was completely acceptable that she used sex to try to convince Johnny to give her answers for her investigation. She brings him to the brink of "completion", then stops cold and says she'll finish for him if he answers her questions. In my book, a prostitute is a prostitute... whether the fee is paid with money, favors, or answers.
Sage's character brought this 5- star story down to a 4 for me.

If you like romantic tales with protective men and modern women, try these:
Extreme Exposure
Hard Evidence

Want to read the whole Bullet Catchers series? Here are the links to the first two books:
Kill Me Twice (The Bullet Catchers, Book 1)
Thrill Me to Death (The Bullet Catchers, Book 2)

More Roxanne St. Claire favorites:
French Twist
Killer Curves

Investigative reporter Sage Valentine asks her friend Lucy Sharpe of Bullet Catchers to help her learn what happened to her roommate Keisha Kingston. Lucy says the firm does not do investigations unless it relates to personal protection of a client, but gives Sage a thin folder filled with some data. Keisha apparently paid takemetonight.com to abduct her and rescue her in a role playing fantasy adventure. Whereas Lucy insists Keisha committed suicide, Sage believes somehow that thrill Internet site led to her murder. She plans to uncover the truth about this division of Fantasy Adventures software gaming company.

To do this Sage plans to register with takemetongiht.com so that she can be kidnapped. However, Lucy worries about her niece doing something foolish so she "hires" Bullet Catchers to protect Sage. Johnny Christiano pretends he is part of the rescue team to keep her safe. As they fall in love, Sage and Johnny team up to learn the truth about takemtonight.com and her late roommate.

This latest Bullet Catcher thriller is a fast-paced romantic suspense with the cautionary buyer beware warning when purchasing personal services over the Internet. The action never slows down once Johnny "rescues" Sage even when he cooks the sexiest tastiest repast in years. Fans of the series will appreciate TAKE ME TONIGHT as Roxanne St. Clair provides a faster then a speeding bullet tale.

Harriet Klausner

This is the first Bullet Catcher paperback I've read and it intrigued me from the start. The notion of getting kidnapped for a thrill seemed unnatural to me, so I had to find out more. Then, Sage really gets into the act just to investigate what really happened to her roommate who supposedly committed suicide. As surprising as this was, the book only gets better with lots of suspense, a few steamy sex scenes, and some cooking thrown in for good measure. I don't think I'll ever look at a cannoli the same again. Ha-ha. A great read!

Reporter Sage Valentine is trying to understand the tragic death of her roommate. Keisha was set to have a fake abduction but was latter found dead in her own bead. When Sage gets no help from her Aunt Lucy Sharpe head of the bullet catcher agency, she sets out on her own. Sage sets herself up to have the same fantasy as Keisha but she doesn't know that her Aunt is sending an Agent to look out for her.

Johnny Christiano will do anything for his boss. Lucy took a chance on him when no one else would. Lucy assigns him to protect Sage without giving him all the details. Sage and Johnny's first meeting is hot as any I have read. It's full of sexual tension and misunderstandings. Sage thinks Johnny is a paid escort but finds herself falling for him anyway.

As the tension escalates the danger to Sage is getting closer. Johnny finds him self torn between his mission and his growing feelings for Sage. Will Sage forgive him when she finds out the truth about his background and his connection to her Aunt?

Take Me Tonight by Roxanne St. Claire is another pulse pounding sexy story. Looking forward to the next hot bullet catcher story.

Roxanne St. Clair has another winner on her hands. Her characters always jump off the page but Johnny--oh, my--and Sage, virtually leapt! The suspense focuses on whether Sage's roommate and good friend committed suicide or was murdered. Ratchet it up with a website that offers sexy rescues from set-up kidnappings, and Sage's estranged aunt, Lucy Sharpe, owner of the Bullett Catchers, sends Johnny Christiano to keep her niece safe while she investigates. . . safe from everyone but him. Excellent read!

You won't be disappointed with Take Me Tonight; it's another wonderful addition to Roxanne St. Claire's Bullet Catcher series.

Want fantasy? Passion? A sexy hero? A spunky woman who gives as good as she gets? Then, Take Me is for you and you won't be sorry you've taken the journey and the rollercoaster ride while reading this book that sizzles, simmers and entertains.

I am such a fan of Roxanne's and this Bullet Catcher series is wonderful and Take Me Tonight is no exception! Johnny and Sage's journey in finding the killer of Sage's friend and sealing their fate will be a journey you'll long remember. As for this Bullet Catcher, watch out, he's not only tough, sexy and handsome, he can cook as well!

Roxanne St. Claire is the best romantic suspense writer in the business. I loved the first two Bullet Catcher books, but Take Me Tonight was so exciting, suspenseful and sexy that I couldn't put it down. I read it in the car when the light was red, at the gym while working out on the elliptical machine, and while stirring pasta. (My Italian dinner was inspired by Johnny--how about putting his recipes on the author website?). I LOVED the book & kept imagining it as a movie, set in Boston of course, which came through with perfect authenticity. St. Claire always does her research, so each book is chock full of realistic details that serve to make the fantasy that much more exciting. And did I mention suspense? We're pretty sure Keisha's death is suspicious from the start, but oh boy, was I surprised to find out what was really going on! The characters were vivid and compelling, especially Johnny (he's my fave BC!), and I loved that we get to know Lucy Sharpe better in this book. Who else but Roxanne St. Claire could write "Ms. Machivelli does her thang" with just the right mix of humor, sarcasm and wit? I also loved that there was about 10x more sex in this one---thank you, Roxanne, for not making us wait. My husband (who doesn't read romance but ALWAYS reads a St. Claire book) says that fantasy is so we can have what's not good for us, so I'm sure he won't mind if I invite Johnny Christiano to take me tonight, and tomorrow, and the next day... Because no matter what Oprah says, I love a book with a happy ending.

If you like romantic suspense novels then the Bullet Catchers series would be a great read for you, unfortunately this is not the best of the series. It fell a little bit short for me in the romance department.

Sage Valentine is troubled by the suicide of her roommate, and she doesn't believe her friend would do such a thing. She is a reporter and thinks that foul play caused by a fake male escort service is the reason for her roommate's murder. She goes to Lucy Sharpe, the head of the Bullet Catchers and her aunt to seek help, but Lucy refuses to give it to her based on her disbelief that the death was anything but suicide. Still she assigns one of her Bullet Catchers, Johnny Christiano to watch Sage in the event she does need to be guarded. Johnny pretends to be a male escort while watching out for Sage as they uncover more and more secrets to why her roommate was murdered.

As far as the suspense and the mystery elements of the novel, it was a great one. I couldn't put the book down because I wanted to uncover who the killer was. It kept me guessing until the very end and completely surprised me. The thing that failed for me was the romance element. There was just something about the two main characters that bothered me. The sexual chemistry was there, but the personalities of the hero and heroine were kind of annoying. Johnny constantly talking about his abilities in the kitchen was a turn off for me, everything seemed to go back to one of his Italian recipes. Sage seemed bitter for most of the novel and recklessly stupid. In the end I didn't really care if they got together but I really wanted to see them catch the bad guy. The book is okay, and a pretty good installment in the series, I just hope that the next one is better.

St Claire hits another solid one. While this may not be out of the park for me like some of her others, it was still a very well-written book. The premise certainly can't be said to be run-of-the-mill nor can the characters. The heroine is desperate for answers about her roommate's death. She knows it wasn't a suicide and she is willing to do anything to get the information. That includes offering her body if she has to.

The hero, one of St. Claire's always sexy, always alpha Bullet Catchers, is trying to infiltrate the organization who offers up "romantic" kidnappings and other edgy sexual fantasies. St. Claire delves into a very dark world with this book and does it well.

I recommend this one to anyone who likes their suspense taut, dark and edgy.