*winks*Ģ.5 ‘’Joshua’s Guide to Getting His Man or Operation Cuban Missile Conquest‘’ stars Turns out a book that can make me belly laugh gets extra special points. (See: backstory is important, I swear!).įor the outrageous laugh-out-loud moments, for which there were a couple for me, I’ve decided to round up my rating instead of down. Those niggles aside, I still really liked Joshua and Frank as characters and I was very pleased with how their romance played out in passionate and sexy form, spurred on by some intense and potentially dangerous shenanigans, caused by events occurring in previous stories. It was rewarding to finally get their story, but for as sweet and sexy as it was, I couldn’t help but feel like it belonged in the original series, not among the spin-offs-and certainly not as a main novel when it reads as a sort of “extra” instead of a fully developed story. In this winter-inspired novella, long-time fans (of the above-mentioned series) finally get to witness the coming together of Sapphire Sands club owner, Frank Ramirez, and his look-but-never-until-now-touch dream-man, the younger, highly competent and always sweet-hearted, Joshua Sterling.įrank and Joshua have been circling each other for YEARS-since way back in the early scenes of the first Four Kings book, Love in Spades. Hence, this is one of those Cochet reading journey’s that is best tackled in sequential release order for full enjoyment-at least that’s my humble opinion if you're new to either series.
Due to the interlinked nature of the series, first with the Four Kings Security series, and now with its spin-off, The Kings: Wild Cards, I would highly suggest doing your reader research first before diving into any of these stories willy-nilly, as MOST OF the characters-from ALL OF the books, across BOTH OF the series-either feature prominently, make brief appearances, or are referenced in relevant backstory in some way, shape or form. Although capable of being read as a standalone, this isn’t, by far, the first time the characters in Raising the Ante feature in a Charlie Cochet book.
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