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review 2019-02-09 03:30
Review for COZEN by Bethany-Kris
Cozen - Bethany-Kris
 
 

COZEN

by Bethany-Kris 
Narrator: Conner Goff Audio 
Publication Date: October 2018
  • Audible Audiobook
  • Listening Length: 7 hours and 58 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Bethany-Kris
  • Audible.com Release Date: October 17, 2018
  • Whispersync for Voice: Ready
  • Language: English, English
  • ASIN: B07JDJH966 
Genres: Adult, Audiobook, Romantic Suspense
Reviewed by Angels With Attitude Book Reviews 5 stars from us
 
Organized Crime. Erotic Romance
 

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SYNOPSIS:

coz-en (kuz-uhn) verb 1. trick or deceive. • obtain by deception.
She was named most appropriately.
Cozen Taylor has more than earned her place as one of North America’s most successful thieves. Her name is whispered amongst criminal elite as the go-to thief when someone needs a heist.
She has never failed.
A call from the Miami-based Astor family could change all that with a job that seems almost impossible to complete. The mark should be simple—a stolen family heirloom, the man who has kept it hidden for over twenty years, and six months to return the piece to its rightful owners.
Nothing is ever that easy.
Three-hundred million for a successful heist. No smart thief would turn the offer down. Cozen didn’t expect a complication like him to put a kink in her plans, though. Sargon Makri—tall, dark, gorgeous, and entirely dangerous. For her life, her heart, and for the success of the heist.
The last thing Cozen needs to be thinking about is Sargon, and how she can get him into her bed … especially when he just happens to be her mark’s bodyguard. The thrill of the job has never been more addicting to Cozen, and she will risk everything to make the heist a success.
But at what cost?
***
From author Bethany-Kris comes a whole new world. A North American network full of criminals battling to stay on top, and painting the streets red in war as they dabble in the game of betrayal. Malicious, cunning, forbidden, and violent—welcome to The Empires and Badlands.
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We have to say that this is our first book by this author and we throughly enjoyed the story from beginning to end.The story engaged us from the very first pages.We loved the characters that the story had and the magnetic pull that went on between Sargon Marki and Cozen Taylor.I loved the complication that this posed for Cozen because this pull between her a Sargon is making her job only ten times harder to do the job and the fact that they can't keep their hands off one another isn't helping matters especially when she is suppose to be seducing her mark yet, doing the dirty with the witching bodyguard who is never far from her thoughts.What complicates matter's even worse is Sargon is having trouble keeping his jealousy at bay endangering both their lives even more.
 
Cozen's and Sargon's entanglement up the suspense level on a daily basis and keeps you on edge the entire time throughout the story.The chemistry between the couple was super hot and their sexual encounters even hotter.
 
Jett aka the mark was the typical arrogant businessman and with his obsession and jealousy he feels for Cozen makes him dangerous and unpredictable and it doesn't help the man by nature is not a patient man but, used to getting what he wants.Cozen for him poses the perfect challenge. Jett on the surface seemed like a nice man but, I found him to be anything but.
 
I loved the banter,the intensity that went on between Sargon and Cozen their love scenes super hot,explosive,exciting and very intense.The chemistry this couple had was Hot! Hot! Hot!I loved the cat a mouse game they had going on between them as it makes things exciting a you never new what was going to happen next.I loved that it should have been a forbidden romance between the two but,the pull was indelible between them.I liked the fact Cozen was doing something that was out of her character for once in her life and that just spiced things up making the game even more intense and even more dangerous.
 
Overall we loved the story from beginning to end as it had the perfect mix of all the things we love to read about we loved the drama,romance, it had a great cast of characters that were engaging and fun, but, most of all we love that the story engaged us on an emotional level which we loved the most.The story made us laugh as well as cry.And last but not least we loved that ending as we never saw that ending coming which made me love the story even more.
 
I am so looking forward to our next read from this author.
Recommended read to all!
 
 
 
 

AUDIO EXCERPT - NARRATOR CONNOR GOFF

ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS

Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.
To keep up-to-date with new releases from Bethany-Kris, sign up to her New Release Newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/bf9lzD

 

 
 
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review 2019-02-09 02:56
Review for CAPTIVATED by Bethany-Kris
Captivated - Bethany-Kris
 

 

CAPTIVATED

by Bethany-Kris
 Narrator: Daniel James Lewis 
  Genres: Adult, Romantic Suspense, Organized Crime, Erotic Romance

  • Audible Audiobook
  • Listening Length: 8 hours and 23 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Bethany-Kris
  • Audible.com Release Date: October 25, 2018
  • Language: English, English
  • ASIN: B07JMHJ2R3
  • Reviewed by Angels With Attitude Book Reviews
  • 5 stars

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SYNOPSIS:

A shadow meets the light …
When someone needs to disappear, the Chicago mob calls on Joe Rossi. A man who can move without a sound, and kill without a word, they don’t call him the Shadow for nothing.
This time, it’s a New York crime family in need of his skills, but it takes one glimpse of her to make him agree to the job.
Liliana Marcello is every inch a principessa della mafia. Her life has taught her to be wary of strangers, yet her ballet career contradicts everything by putting her on display.
It’s a man with a dark smile and a constantly changing demeanor that makes her feel safe again, but it’s the unknown that holds her back.
It takes one look … One dance … One word … One smile to captivate a man.
And one second to kill a woman because of it, too.
Not all monsters hide in the shadows. How are you supposed to see them coming?


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Let's start off by saying that this is a new author for us and we are really enjoying her stories.

I really enjoyed this tale it was griping suspenseful and a really great love story.I have to say I really loved the main characters Joe and Liliana were complete opposites yet fit each other so well.One thing they do have in common is that they are are both from powerful crime families.


Liliana's career as a ballet dancer keeps her very busy which keeps her away from the family business although she is not naive about her father and brother's she is not privy to how they conduct their business and I really feel she doesn't really know just how powerful and dangerous they really are.


Liliana and Joe form and instant connection he to is from a Mafia family based in Chicago.This story reminded me a little bit of the story Beauty and the Beast.


I loved the chemistry and the connection that was their between these to as they made a cute couple their courtship was somewhat of a train wreck waiting to happen yet ,they were super sexy and hot together when they came together for some hot and dirty sex. lol Joe is keeping secrets their entire courtship first because it was family business and then to protect her.How do your court the girl you are crazy about without her realizing in actuality you are guarding her and not just a job ?


I have to say that I haven't really read a lot of the Mafia romance gene but, I have to say that the story kept me interested and turning the pages until the very end.The story had a great cast of characters and some twists and turns and a few surprises.


I loved both Liliana and Joe from the onset of the story but, Joe became my favorite character this time around.Joe just kept surprising me at every turn because he kept doing things out of his comfort zone and out of character for him and also kept straying from the plan and then gets involved with finding out more about the job he was hired to do things he never ever does.The cool and collected man is everything but, as Liliana has him totally off his game. Lol 

"Grinning"

Overall we enjoyed this story as I found the characters to be love-able,intriguing,mysterious and that it had just the right amount of drama and suspense .I also loved the author style of writing and would love to read more books by her and will have to start with one of her mafia series for sure.


We loved it ! 



 

AUDIO EXCERPT - NARRATOR DANIEL JAMES LEWIS

 

ABOUT BETHANY-KRIS

 
 

Bethany-Kris is a Canadian author, lover of much, and mother to four young sons, one cat, and two dogs. A small town in Eastern Canada where she was born and raised is where she has always called home. With her boys under her feet, snuggling cat, barking dogs, and a hubby calling over his shoulder, she is nearly always writing something … when she can find the time.

To keep up-to-date with new releases from Bethany-Kris, sign up to her New Release Newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/bf9lzD

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