Night After Night

  In this blog, I reviewed Lauren Blakely’s Night After Night, the first  installment in the Seductive Nights contemporary romance series. This love story is so steamy and smoldering hot. Julia Bell is a bartender at a hot nightclub in San Francisco. When her sister McKenna hooked her up with Clay Nichols, an entertainment lawyer from New York City, the first night they met was red-hot after their first kiss. Besides their long-distance relationship and casual weekend visits to see each other, they couldn’t stop thinking about each other and seeing each other whenever they’ve gotten the chance. For Julia, she needed to keep the people she loved and cared about at a wide distance so they wouldn’t get harm. Her past had caught up to her. Until her debit was paid to a nasty loan shark, she couldn’t afford to fall too deeply with Clay and give him what he wants. For Clay, he had been burned by his ex who lied about her substance abuse addiction and problems. When he visited her for business, he would do anything to protect her, but if she continued to push him away and lie to him, would she be able to break free from that bind at any cost? This book had a happily for now ending in the series.

This was a steamy contemporary romance that kept me intrigued to know more about this sexy relationship they had with each other.  I cared for Julia and how she cared for the people she loved and would do anything to protect them. But as her past continued to sneak up on her, she would do anything to keep the close people in her world close to her even at wide berth. I felt for Clay who wanted to be with Julia, but remained concerned about how she kept putting off on telling the truth. I worried for the both of them. The dual locations of San Francisco and New York City worked out well for this smexy contemporary romance to portray a long-distance relationship.The theme is that honest is the best policy to break the binds that hold you.

This hot contemporary romance was smoldering hot and fascinated to read. I couldn’t find anything fault to nitpick on, other than to read the next book in the series to find out how it turned out.  I rated this book, four out of five stars, because  of the way it ended. If you love steamy contemporary romances that make you want to yearn for more with plenty of romantic action, a dose off steamy suspense, and heart-stopping non-stop drama, check out Night After Night.  This book is recommended for fans who love smoldering contemporary romance novels.