3.5 Stars~~~This was a cute-light-funny read with a touch of sexy. Yes, there were Stephanie Plum hijinks, but I still liked Addison. The story was a bit slow starting...the curse of most first books of a series. Things got going around the 45% mark. Addison and Nick (the hot cop) have great banter. There were some really funny parts, too, and Addison's mom is a hoot. I did think the ending was a bit rushed. This was an Amazon freebie that hit the mark...it made me want to read the next. This wa...

True story: I was looking for an ebook on Amazon and I passed this by twice, thinking it probably wasn't my thing. Then I accidentally tapped the screen and downloaded it. My first thought was "no, no, no!" My second thought was "eh, whatever. I've got it now, may as well try it."Best. Happy. Accident. Ever.I love this book. There's nothing I don't like about this book. Okay, maybe I don't like that books #2 and #3 aren't also free ebooks on Amazon at the moment but I love #1 so much that I just...

Addison Holmes needs more money than she makes as a teacher so she takes a job at a strip club. Turns out she is not good at stripping so her first dance is also her last. She freaked when she saw her principal in the audience. But when she saw him taking pictures of her, she was sure he was going to fire her. As she was leaving Addison tripped over the principal's dead body in the parking lot.The cop handling the investigation is Nick Dempsy and there is an immediate attraction between the pair...

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Two-haiku review:Teacher needs moneyTries stripping then detectingFinds body, meets copFunny but crazyNot at all believableKnock-off of Steph Plum

Brief review coming soon!

Addison Holmes is a middle school history teacher in Georgia who tries out stripping and private detective work as a way to help with her messy financial situation caused by poor spending choices and wedding debt leftover from when her fiancé left her at the altar. On her first and only day as a stripper, she finds a dead body. Then, she uses her new side hustle for her friend's private investigator business to insert herself into the investigation. There's also a bit of open-ended romance, whic...

Oh...I was unconscious and you took off all my clothes??? giggle giggle giggleErr....no...not funny. Kind of rapey. I might have liked this book more if Addison wasn't such an idiot and her love interest wasn't so creepy.

2.5 stars. This was very meh. I was basically raised on this type of comedy-mystery books – then written by Janet Evanovich, starring the heroine Stephanie Plum with love interests and side-kicks Joe Morelli (cop) and Ranger (bounty hunter). This felt like a pale imitation of those books. The heroine, Addison Holmes, felt like a less interesting and likeable Stephanie knock-off and the love interest, Jake, felt like a merger of Morelli and Ranger… which was a little weird when he had to take on

Review by Ursula: An entertaining, fun read. Addison has a knack for getting into trouble. She has horrible luck and it's only going to get worse. The story was well told from a first person point of view and moved the action on at a steady pace. Addison's mom, best friend and co-worker are the perfect addition to the story. They make the story more interesting and provide relief from Addison's horrible mishaps that seem to happen at an unnatural pace.Nick, the cop working on the murder case tha...

I couldn't finish it. Actually I liked the idea of the book but it's more like a raw draft and not a finished book. There are huge plot holes, the characters are not very well developed and also not very likeable.For example: it isn't a funny banter between potential lovers if the male says she is in a bad mood because of "those days in the month". For heaven's sake: we have 2014 - how old is this "funny joke"?Major plot holes: given the circumstances you would assume that Addison is the main su...

A Mediocre BookThis is such a shame, because there was no reason for this book to be so mediocre. I liked the character – she reminds me of someone I know – and I felt the plot was a good one. She starts of as an inexperienced and none too impressive stripper, so there’s comedy there right from the start. However, despite the fact that I consider myself to be a man of the world I had no idea what a ‘bustier’ was or indeed ‘pasties.’ I assumed ‘pasties’ was a euphemism for her pale boobs but they...

This was a kobo freebie. Addison is very Stephanie Plum-like right down to being the accident magnet, cop boyfriend and small town. Takes a second job as a PI too. Not a bad read, different enough from Plum to keep me interested. Can't wait to see if Ranger shows up in Book 2 lol!

Thank goodness it was short because I don't think I could stand any more of Addison Holmes. What. A. Moron. Totally unbelievable that a cop would even give her the time of day. Add in the disjointed bits (other reviewers have already pointed these out, and yes they are annoying) and the fact that there is not one likable character in the whole story, and this is the beginning of a series I will never, ever be buying into. I gave it two stars because I found some of it quite entertaining, and may...

Two chapters in, I was all set to declare Liliana Hart the next Janet Evanovich. By the end of the novel, not so much.Addison Holmes is a very funny protagonist, and I wish her well as Hart develops her over the next several novels in the series.But this book just has too many problems. Let’s start with editing. Whoever edited this novel was not paying attention. One chapter has a dialogue segment in which Addison is coerced by her friend Kate to go out on a blind date. By the next chapter, that...

This was so laugh out load funny at times. Addison Holmes needs money quick! She is on the hook to buy a cute little house in her native Whiskey Georgia and due to be homeless in 90 days or something like that, as her apartments are due to be condemned. So what does any smart, 9th grade teacher do, go and get a stripper job...yes that would have been the first thing I thought of. Now, her career as a stripper is very short lived shall we say as Addison may be a pretty woman, but her middle name

So this book has a 4.01 average rating. Interesting. I really must have missed something here. I recently discovered Liliana Hart through her J.J. Graves series (which I enjoyed quite a lot) and thought I would give this a try. Bad idea. The MC is silly and acts like a teenager, her main squeeze is a walking cliché, the plot is uninteresting, the book is just amazingly dull and not the least bit funny. Janet Evanovich this is not. I didn't enjoy the last few Stephanie Plum instalments I read but...

If anyone had talked to me like Nick talks to Addison, they'd be picking themselves up off the floor.He told her she was stupid so many times, it just boggles my mind why she stayed interested in him. There is something more than a good body... like being a nice, respectful person. Nick was a mysoginstic little shit.

The book started off great. The MC's in a pretty predicament - she's just found out that her career as a stripper is a total bust and she sees her boss. Huh. Then said boss gets murdered and she meets a hot detective. Next, she begins investigative work and ends up embroiled in this huge conspiracy. Pretty interesting right? But why 2 stars? Well, that's because the plot turned out to be really disappointing and frankly, I thought it was stupid. The ending was just so ridiculously absurd. (view

This is a Quickie Review. For the full review, please visit The Romanceaholic.Expected Release Date: May 30, 2011 (Available Now!)Publisher: Self PublishedImprint: N/AAuthor’s Website: http://www.lilianahart.blogspot.com/My Source for This Book: Gift from the authorPart of a Series: Yes, Book 1, Addison Holmes seriesSeries Best Read In Order: N/ASteam Level: SteamyOkay, this book is hysterical. It’s a true comedy of errors. Poor Addison is a high school history teacher with an incredibly awesome...