NICE AND EASY (Boys of the Big Easy #3) by Erin Nicholas-Review & Excerpt tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 12, 2019
New Orleans firefighter, Caleb Moreau had to trade body shots and hot all-nighters for sippy cups and actual up-all-night fevers when his sister was killed, leaving his niece in his care. But two years in, he’s definitely got the hang of this fatherhood thing. Of course, he couldn’t do it without nanny-turned-friend and fellow single parent, Lexi. Because of her, things have always been pretty easy.
Getting pregnant and going it alone wasn’t in Lexi’s plans, but thanks to Caleb, she’s doing okay. He’s helped her out with everything from diapers to car repairs over the years. So, when she suddenly needs a place to live, of course Caleb steps up. After all, it’s only temporary. They’re just friends. It’s just a favor, like all the others.
But for now it really is, very, very nice.
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REVIEW: NICE AND EASY is the third instalment in Erin Nicholas’ contemporary, adult BOYS OF THE BIG EASY erotic, romance series focusing on a tight knit group of friends, and their single parent support group. This is twenty-nine year old, New Orleans fire fighter and first responder Caleb Moreau, and twenty-two year old, ER nurse Lexi Scott’s story line. NICE AND EASY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
NOTE: NICE AND EASY incorporates a few scenes of Domination and submission, as well as some light discipline including spanking.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Lexi and Caleb) NICE AND EASY follows the friends to lovers relationship between twenty-nine year old, New Orleans fire fighter and first responder Caleb Moreau, and twenty-two year old, ER nurse Lexi Scott. Two and half years earlier Caleb Moreau became a single parent to Shay, when a car accident took the life of his sister and her husband. Six months later, having met single mother and ER nurse Lexi Scott, at the local single parents support group brought the much needed help and support for one another, support disguising the palpable sexual attraction between our leading couple. A drunk Lexi will make a pass at our story line hero, resulting in humiliation and embarrassment when Lexi believes Caleb feels nothing in return but a potentially homeless Lexi finds herself cohabitating with our story line hero bringing one another closer than ever before. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Caleb and Lexi, and the potential fall-out when misunderstanding and issues of trust force Lexi to re-evaluate the direction of their relationship.
Lexi Scott believes herself to be a burden upon our story line hero, unable to forge ahead on her own with assistance and help. Caleb Moreau struggles to become the father his four-year old niece needs, struggles that include Shay’s ongoing disabilities as a direct result of her parents’ accident. Over protective by nature, Caleb will overstep his need to control potentially pushing away the woman he loves.
The relationship between Caleb and Lexi is a friends to lovers romance wherein our couple support one-another as they co-parent and raise their children together. The palpable sexual attraction does not go unnoticed by family and friends, an attraction that reveals Lexi’s need to be submissive behind close doors. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and passionate.
There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and ‘helpful’ secondary and supporting characters who offer advise to our story line couple, including the suggestion of erotic, romance novels to aid in the adventures and playtime in the bedroom.
NICE AND EASY is a story of family, friendship, communication and love. The premise is sexy and captivating; the characters are sassy and energetic; the romance is seductive and intense but in all honesty, I am tiring of the D/s story lines. NICE AND EASY is a spicy, fun and spirited story perfect for the romantic in all of us.
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Reading order and Previous Reviews
Easy Going
Going Down Easy
Taking It Easy
Eggnog Makes Her Easy
Nice and Easy
Copy supplied for review
Reviewed by Sandy
NOTE: The excerpt is intended for mature readers 18+ to due content and language.
Being compared, even in her own head, to a grilled BLT might not seem sexy, but in her mind, it so was. Caleb devoured those sandwiches. He’d do almost anything for one. He made sexy moaning sounds when he first tasted them. And he’d proclaimed that hers were the best he’d ever tasted. Yeah, put that way, along with the schnapps still coating her brain, it was strangely sexy.
“Caleb.”
She watched his pupils dilate and his jaw clench.
Her hand went to the front of his shirt and she bunched it in her fists, watching his eyes. He didn’t try to stop her. Then she tugged, urging him forward.
And he came, the hand next to her hip pressing into the mattress as she tipped her head to one side. Their lips touched. Softly. Briefly. But she felt it all the way to her bones. Heat, want, relief. She suddenly had to have more. She made a little almost-a-sob sound and licked her tongue along his lower lip.
“Lex.”
Her name was more of a groan than a word. It was the sexiest thing she’d ever heard.
“Caleb,”she breathed.
Then the next groan became the sexiest thing she’d ever heard. It was a combination of hunger and resignation, and she felt like he’d just set her nerve endings on fire.
Suddenly, Caleb’s hand came up to cup the back of her head, his fingers diving into her hair. And he took over.
His mouth opened over hers and his tongue stroked deep and hot. Every glide of his tongue felt as though he was running a finger over her clit. Some were firmer, some softer, some longer, some shorter, and her need ratcheted up with each one.
She ran her hands over his chest to his shoulders and up the sides of his neck, loving the hard muscles and the heat under her palms. Then she slid her hands down his sides to the bottom of his shirt. She slipped her hands underneath, moaning as she met hot, bare skin. He sucked in a quick breath and she smiled against his lips, loving having an effect on him.
And suddenly she was on her back and Caleb was moving over her. Her hands slid to his back, the muscles there bunching as he braced himself above her, still kissing her like it was his job. Instinctively, she slid her legs apart and he settled between them. The comforter was between them, but she felt him hard and hot and deliciously heavy against her. The feel of his cock pressed against her made her ache. She’d done that to him. She’d made him hard.
Hallelujah.
Erin Nicholas is the New York Times bestselling author of sexy contemporary romances. Her stories have been described as toe-curling, enchanting, steamy and fun. She loves to write about reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines and happily ever afters. She lives in the Midwest with her husband who only wants to read the sex scenes in her books, her kids who will never read the sex scenes in her books, and family and friends who say they’re shocked by the sex scenes in her books (yeah, right!).
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Excellent and honest reviews, Sandy. Thanks.
Another wonderful review and excerpt, thanks Sandy.
Thanks for the great review.
Fantastic review, thanks Sandy
Thanks for the review and excerpt, TRC/Sandy!
Terrific review, Sandy. Thanks.
Thanks for another wonderful review and excerpt. Congrats to Erin on the new release.
Great review. thanks for the excerpt.
Another fabulous review Sandy! Shared on my socials!??
Another fantastic review and excerpt, thanks Sandy.Congrats to Erin on the new release.