Drawn to Him: A Romance Collection

by Willow Winters

• ASIN: B073ZL753G
• Publish Date: 2017
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 595
• Language: English

Reviews

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Drawn to Him brings together a collaboration of hot romance authors to give you 8 novellas about the hot alphas we just can't resist!

I decided to start with A. Zavarelli's story, Bad Cop. Its a bit small town romance, a bit second chance love story. Ginger is not a very likable character. The town hates her, and she wasn't kind to the hero, Justice, when they were teens either. She let her friends bully him and never defended their friendship. 10 years have passed and Justice, now the town sheriff and military hero, is the one on the pedestal and Ginger has come back to town with not a penny to her name and ruined reputation. Their story was interesting but these two are frustrating! I wanted Ginger to explain herself and I wanted Justice to stop being so immature. Then you throw in Ginger's ex who is a crazy fucker, and things get interesting. For me, this was a solid 4 star story.

So, I skipped Fifth Avenue Blues by Jade West because a friend who LOVES smutty erotica said she felt it was a bit much for her. Y'all, can you imagine me reading it? No. It would be a disaster. I love some smut, but I am pretty vanilla. Thanks for the heads on this one to everyone who warned me :)

Next I decided to try Infatuation by Willow Winters because I love me a good insta-love Alexa Riley-ish story. I know not everyone devours these like I do, but I like what I like! This story started out with promise. I liked the mystery of why Alec seemingly lured Lila to the island and what secrets was he hiding. But then, the story just ended. I mean, literally just ended. No real answers, no real HEA (because it was all kind of up in the air in my opinion! He didn't even know if she would end up staying on the island long term!). So, for that alone, this story was 3 stars (4 stars for most of the story, then 2 stars for the terrible end!

I didn't read Malfeasance by K. Webster because her books make me uncomfortable. Like her 'taboo' stuff just creeps me out and gives me the heebie-jeebies. I'm sure not all her books are like that, but I'm trigger shy when it comes to her and will probably never read another one of her books.

Dr. Dreamy had me thinking of Grey's Anatomy the whole time, except it would be the version of Grey's if HBO produced it. HAWT. If you like your heroes on the alpha-hole side, get ready to love Dr. Matthews. This was my first LJ Shen story as well and I enjoyed her style. 4 stars!

Overall, the stories were short, sexy, and easy to devour in an hour or so! Perfect for a 'palate cleanser' between longer books! I read one story from this anthology in between each regular novel I read and it was great! I loved the quick pace and simple plot to give me something just enjoyable that didn't require me to be emotional or deep!

 



Other romance anthologies like Royally Mine, Alphas of Danger...then you will probably like Drawn to Him!

 

Drawn to Him

 

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[Eve1972]

Great cover on this one. It's hard when you have a collection of stories to have a cover that represents the entirety of the collection, but this one works very well. It has great composition and title work as well.

This turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag for me. There were three that knocked it out of the park and a couple that missed the mark completely. The rest fell somewhere in between. That's to be expected though when you go into reading a collection of short stories by very different authors.

Infatuation -- Willow Winters -- 4 Stars

I enjoyed this one a lot. Excellent writing and the story felt very mysterious and atmospheric. The pace was good. The sex scene was hot. The characters were likable. Since the story is left rather open ended, I am going to assume this is going to be a full-length book or a series (perhaps it already is??). I really hope so because I definitely want to read more about these brothers and the town.

The Billanaire's Begininning -- M. Never -- 2 Stars

This one was just OK for me. I didn't connect with either character, and I found the fact that Simone kept alluding to her "secret" and not just straight up telling the hero annoying as hell since it was drug out basically to the end. Like I said, just OK.

Doctor Dreamy -- L.J. Shen -- 4 Stars

OMG, this book was a RIOT. I loved it. It was funny as hell. Well written and paced. The sex scenes were smokin'. I ADORED the heroine. The hero was an ass. A dirty talking smokin' hot one, but a BIT too cocky for me to warm 100% up to him. That said, he did grow on me by the end. My only other niggle was that he was technically still married when they get together and had they been separated for awhile I would have been fine, but he only basically broke up with his wife four months earlier, so I found myself a little turned off by that. Overall though it was a great read.

Malfeasance -- K. Webster -- 5 Stars

My favorite novella so far. No surprise there as K is one of my favorite authors. This had everything I love in a book. Way older dirty talking hot as hell hero (52) and a likable and feisty younger heroine (22). It was pretty much insta everything and low drama. The sex scenes were smokin' and plentiful. It was well written and well paced, and the plot was pretty fleshed out for such a short little story. Loved it!

Fifth Avenue Blues -- Jade West -- 2 Stars

Eh, this one was just OK for me. It was dirty as f@ck no doubt about that, and normally I am ALL over crude sex talk, but the "sluts" and the "destroy her holes" just didn't work for me in this one. It was like the sex scenes didn't match up with the characters and the plot. I am also not much of a fan of famous heroes because they are almost always skanky manwhores and Kyle was no different and honestly, I didn't find him likable at all. I also wasn't a fan of the heroine who went from an awkward, insecure doormat to a pornstar slut in 3.5 seconds. So ya, a bit of a miss this one.

Datenight -- Isabella Starling -- 5 Stars

WOWZA was this one HOT. I honestly don't have much to say about this other than I LOVED it. It was well written and paced. The plot was interesting. The characters were likable. The sex scenes smokin'. Just a super enjoyable story that hit the mark perfectly.

Bad Cop -- A. Zavarelli -- 3 Stars

I'm in a bit of a quandary over this one. I liked it, and I didn't. I thought the hero was a major immature douche for most of the story. I generally always have issues with characters that act all butthurt over things that happened YEARS earlier when they were teenagers, and the hero was BIG on holding onto that butthurt. And the way he expressed that was beyond childish for a guy in his late 20's and a sheriff (IMO). On top of that most of the towns people were also a bunch of assholes as well. That said, I ADORED the heroine. Even if I think she should have told the whole lot of them (and the hero) to go f@ck themselves. There is no denying it is a very well written and paced story. And the one sex scene was hot. So yeah, another mixed bag with this one.

One Night -- K.L. Kreig -- 5 Stars

Awww, I LOVED this one. So much so I really wish it had been longer. It was super sweet and sexy. Well written and well paced. Relatively low angst and drama. The plot was interesting and like I said I wish it had been a full-length book. There wasn't a ton of side characters, but I hope Will is going to get his own book. And both main characters were very likable. Two thumbs up from yours truly.