The Lady Most Likely by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway

3 stars
R- 3.5

Like The Lady Most Willing, this is a novel in three parts by three different authors.

Honestly, probably even steamier than the first one.  And by first one, I mean second one, because this one in fact came first, I just read it second.

(That was a great sentence, by the way.  You should write that one down.)

Which is why it got 3 stars instead of 4.

But it was also possibly funnier.  Or more consistently funny?  Something.

I laughed and laughed.

Overall, still not really my style, but it was entertaining.

The Lady Most Willing

by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway

4 stars
R- 3.5

So, my friend and I have very different definitions of fluff.

Hers (which she reads on the treadmill mostly) tend to involve a love story and some humor.

Mine tend to involve murder.

But I finally caved and read this one.  And while it's not really my thing, it was pretty darn funny.

The first section is the best... it loses its way a little in the second and even more in the third.  In fact, I might have given it 5 stars if the third section had gone differently.

Think of it as Pride and Prejudice meets Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... except set in Scotland.

Overall, I found it really funny and worth the read, though a bit steamy for me.

Ah, Romance

That's right, I read a romance novel. And it was actually good. Which is a total "go figure" in my world.

Skinny Dipping by Connie Brockway
5 stars
R- 3.5

Okay, seriously a romance with a title like Skinny Dipping? Gag. I was not looking forward to reading this. But it was on the Reader's Choice list. Sigh.

But it was good. It was entertaining. And I'm talking laugh-out-loud entertaining.

And yeah, there was a love story, but there was also a lot of... life. Outside of the romance.

I have nothing against characters falling in love. Really I don't. I am, after all, a girl, and I think at heart we're all suckers for a good love story. As long as there's enough other stuff going on to hold my interest. :D

Skinny Dipping was also shockingly clean. Given that it's a romance, I was very pleasantly surprised to find only one steamy love scene. (Note, however, that it was steamy. Hence the 3.5 on the risqueity scale.) All in all, I was impressed.

Not impressed enough to change my mind about the genre, mind you.

I'm not going there. :D