Maggie Reads Romance

4,5 stars!!

New-to-me authors seem to be determined to hijack my reading schedule and consume my time with their fantasic books and Jennifer Lyon just joined her predecessors like Cara McKenna, Elyssa Patrick and Charlotte Stein with the first book in the Plus One Chronicles. I bought all three parts when they released, intrigued by the blurb of THE PROPOSITION (book 1) after someone tweeted about it when it released. As it's a serial I knew I would be reading it only after last book was released. This happened during the "big hiatus" so they sat there for a while...waiting for me to get to them. Then, when browsing through my Kindle app, THE PROPOSITION jumped at me...demanding to be read!

So I did and now I'm kicking myself for not reading these books sooner! This first book turned out to be awesome! A strong, self-proclaimed broken, brave, resilient heroine who is trying to recover from a violent assault a few years earlier and a dirty talking ex-UFC turned tycoon hero with a dark violent score to settle with someone in his past. Kat is scarred, both physically and emotionally. Sloane, who isn't free of emotional scars himself, helps her heal and find the strong, sensual woman deep inside her.

The chemistry between Kat and Sloane is sizzling and sexy scenes were ripe with sensuality and heat. In erotic romance there's filthy dirty and beautiful sensual dirty, THE PROPOSITION and Jennifer Lyon's writing fall in the latter bracket for me.


Memorable Scene:
- when Kat brought Sloane cupcakes to the gym > a scene that spoke volumes about the characters and the story! I think this was the moment I fell hard for Sloane

Fave Quotes:
He wasn’t classically handsome, more like savagely beautiful.

The weight of every eye in the ballroom pricked her nerve endings. Including his. Especially his. That stare rode her back from her shoulder blades to her ass, leaving a trail of shivers comprised of a mix of want and fear.

“How can a man who made eating cake look like he’s going down on a woman he’s starved to taste manage to turn sex into a business proposition?” [Kat]

Oh Lord, his shoulders and arms, pure brawn that begged to be explored. Touched, stroked and squeezed. The sheen of sweat covering his chest made her think of long licks…
Get a grip! She didn’t do instant lust like this. Hadn’t ever thought of licking a sweaty man.