This third book in Ms. Blake’s Blackwood Family Saga, Sugar and Spice, is just that when it comes to the main characters in this romantic thriller. Their romance is under a lot of pressure as they race for their lives, but there is plenty of sugar when it comes their falling in love and plenty of heat too, the good spicy kind and the bad dangerous kind. The stars in this tale are James Sullivan and Susannah Blackwood. The sexy, handsome and charismatic James Sullivan, loves to cook. We girls love a man who can cook. And he likes to cook spicy, as Jamaican cuisine often is, a culinary skill he learned from his mom. And boy does he cook, in more ways than one. Susannah Blackwood has a sweet tooth and when things between them begin to steam up, James teases her and calls her Sugar when she claims she is more of a dessert girl. But I can assure you, she quickly learns to love spice. I always enjoy Ms. Blake’s banter and dialogue and she is especially good at it when it comes to lovers.
So it is Susannah Blackwood who is the Blackwood featured in this book. She is the sister who leads a quiet life, who saved half of her large inheritance from her dad and used the other half to buy a bookstore, lives in the apartment above the store and likes her independence. Her quiet life is about to change. The Blackwood family doesn’t get a break from drama and disaster. Susannah unwittingly catches the obsessive interest of a particularly heinous serial killer. Her brother Luke, who runs a prestigious and successful corporation for finding lost children, assigns his best agent, James Sullivan, to protect her. James has been in love with Susannah for a long time. Susannah has feelings for James, but when they first met, she was married and then the marriage fell apart and after that she was rather reclusive as far as it came to men. James respectfully kept his distance. Now they are thrown together in an intense race for their lives with the maniacal killer on their heels. The climax is spine chilling. Another plus to this book is that you learn a lot more about the mysterious Isabella, who is part of the Blackwood clan through marriage. She’s Luke’s’ wife, Ariana’s sister-in-law and just wait until you find out more about this lady!
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Be still my beating heart!
Blake continues the saga of the Blackwood family with Susanna Blackwood who is forced to run and keep running for her life; but she’s not alone in facing these life threatening actions of a deranged serial killer. Bare Bones thoughts… ~A savory, spicy and titillating love story ~Action from the git go. Blake doesn’t waste any time. ~A serial killer, a man hunt, a game of wits and hide snd seek ~ There’s more to Isabella ~The titles and the photos on the covers of this series hints to what is inside ~If you’ve read The Book of Eve by Blake, the last chapter may give you an ahhhh moment. Be still my beating heart! I didn’t see this one coming; but it was inevitable by chapter 2! There’s no wasting of time in setting the stage for Susanna and James Sullivan. Blake has concocted a story of heart rendering terror mixed with heart fluttering love that will have you holding your breath. This story is packed full of action, sweeteness and tingling spiciness in all the right places to make you keep turning the pages till the very last page is turned. Believe me, Blake takes you to the very edge and then ties it all together into a neat little package. I love this series thus far as it takes an element of life and turns it into an intricate, fast paced hand wringing and emotional story. That’s life, after all, even if on a less grander scale than the Blackwoods. I’m looking forward to the next one because I’ve got to really know more about Isabella and her story....
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2021Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
Blake continues the saga of the Blackwood family with Susanna Blackwood who is forced to run and keep running for her life; but she’s not alone in facing these life threatening actions of a deranged serial killer.
Bare Bones thoughts…
~A savory, spicy and titillating love story
~Action from the git go. Blake doesn’t waste any time.
~A serial killer, a man hunt, a game of wits and hide snd seek
~ There’s more to Isabella
~The titles and the photos on the covers of this series hints to what is inside
~If you’ve read The Book of Eve by Blake, the last chapter may give you an ahhhh moment.
Be still my beating heart! I didn’t see this one coming; but it was inevitable by chapter 2! There’s no wasting of time in setting the stage for Susanna and James Sullivan. Blake has concocted a story of heart rendering terror mixed with heart fluttering love that will have you holding your breath. This story is packed full of action, sweeteness and tingling spiciness in all the right places to make you keep turning the pages till the very last page is turned. Believe me, Blake takes you to the very edge and then ties it all together into a neat little package.
I love this series thus far as it takes an element of life and turns it into an intricate, fast paced hand wringing and emotional story. That’s life, after all, even if on a less grander scale than the Blackwoods. I’m looking forward to the next one because I’ve got to really know more about Isabella and her story....
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- CJSReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2024
Sweet with heat, and all the thrills
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Hugely enjoyable
Format: KindleVerified Purchase - Karen KaneReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2020
It did not disappoint at all, already looking forward to the next one in the series.
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