This review is from 2013 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
Katy Evans
Book ArchiveContemporaryEroticaMolten
REAL
A fallen boxer.
A woman with a broken dream.
A competition…
IS HE FOR REAL?
He even makes me forget my name. One night was all it took, and I forgot everything and anything except the sexy fighter in the ring who sets my mind ablaze and my body on fire with wanting…
Remington Tate is the strongest, most confusing man I’ve ever met in my life.
He’s the star of the dangerous underground fighting circuit, and I’m drawn to him as I’ve never been drawn to anything in my life. I forget who I am, what I want, with just one look from him. When he’s near, I need to remind myself that I am strong–but he is stronger. And now it’s my job to keep his body working like a perfect machine, his taut muscles primed and ready to break the bones of his next opponents . . .
But the one he’s most threatening to, now, is me.
I want him. I want him without fear. Without reservations.
If only I knew for sure what it is that he wants from me?
INTENSE. There’s one word that can summarize this book in its entirety: intense. From the characters’ histories to their workout regime to their sexual relationship, Brooke and Remy are intense. Though REAL is classified as “New Adult” (I am not listing it as such here) with retailers, there is nothing innocent about the sex scenes in this book. In fact, they’re some of the best I’ve ever read. There’s tension packed onto tension with a side of tension all throughout the story, so when it all pays off with such intensity, REAL makes for a must-read book. [April 2013]