GIMME S’MORE (Hot Cakes #5) by Erin Nicholas-Review & Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 19, 2021
A friends-to-lovers romance that will make you melt.
Oliver’s a dreamer who is always ready for the next big adventure.
Piper’s the steady one who keeps his feet on the ground.
He’s wildly successful, thanks to her always being there to catch him when he leaps before he looks. But she wants more. While he’s as clueless as ever.
So she just gave her two weeks notice.
Ollie doesn’t know how he’ll survive without Piper. So for the next two weeks, he’ll be sticking to her like the marshmallows on the s’mores she loves so much.
But does he want her as his assistant… or is there a sweeter spot in his life for the woman who’s always had his back–and possibly even his heart?
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REVIEW: GIMME S’MORE is the sixth and final? instalment in Erin Nicholas’ contemporary, adult HOT CAKES erotic, romance series focusing on the new owners and investors in the Hot Cakes snack company in Appleby, Iowa (Aiden, Dax, Cam, Ollie and Grant). This is video game developer and writer Oliver Caprinelli, and PA Piper Barry’s story line. GIMME S’MORE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary.
SOME BACKGROUND: Aiden, Dax, Cam, Ollie and Grant designed and sold a video game that left the best friends businessmen millionaires. With nothing to do the group bought the faltering Hot Cakes snack company in Cam and Aiden’s hometown of Appleby, Iowa saving the town in the process. These are their stories.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Piper and Oliver) GIMME S’MORE follows the friends to lovers relationship between video game developer and writer Oliver Caprinelli, and PA Piper Barry. For five years Piper Barry has been the PA for our story line heroes but in the last two years, Piper fell in love with Oliver Caprinelli, a man who struggled with a direction in life. When the five friends sold their controlling interest in their online game Warriors of Easton, Ollie remained connected, writing a series of stories and adventures for the new owners and company but Ollie found himself the odd-man out as each of his friends started to fall in love, and in this our hero was oblivious to the woman who more or less did everything in his life. Enter PA Piper Barry, and the woman with whom Oliver would fall in love. What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Oliver and Piper, and the potential fall-out when Piper realizes that she may have been more of a hindrance than a help.
Oliver Caprinelli struggles with the day to day activities of normal life, and keeping his attention on the task at hand, and is unknowingly dependent upon their current PA but Piper is about to hand in her resignation, and in doing so, profess her love to a man who is blind to his PA’s attempts to attract his attention. Quickly realizing that he knows nothing about the woman with whom he will fall in love, Oliver will work side by side with our story line heroine as she endeavors to set up a camp ground for local kids.
The relationship between Oliver and Piper begins as a professional arrangement but two year earlier Piper fell madly in love with Oliver Caprinelli, and quickly realized that our hero was easily distracted by the world around him. In an effort to prove she was deserving, Piper walked away from the job that she loved, only to ask for two weeks to show Oliver that she was worthy of love. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
All of Oliver’s business partners play secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to Alpaca farmer Drew Ryan, and several local teens who help out on weekends at the campground.
GIMME S’MORE is an enchanting story of friends and family; relationships and love.The character driven premise is inviting, fun and refreshing; the romance is flirty, sassy and sexy- the palpable sexual attraction is electric; the characters are spirited, and dynamic.
Reading Order and Previous Reviews
Sugar Coated
Forking Around
Making Whoopie
Semi-Sweet on You
Oh, Fudge
Reviewed by Sandy
Copy supplied for review
Ollie scrubbed a hand over his face.
They wouldn’t be surprised, of course. But they were going to be pissed.
They’d all known that Piper quitting was a risk and that one day she’d probably wise-up and lose her patience and that would be it.
They’d also all known that when it happened there was a 90 percent chance it would be because of Ollie.
The other 10 percent chance was that it would be because of Ollie and Dax together.
And now it had finally happened.
If it came down to choosing between him and Piper, he wasn’t sure he wanted to know how that debate would end up. Or how short the discussion would be before they decided they wanted and needed her more.
That was only one of the reasons he hadn’t told them yet.
The other was because he was still processing the part where she’d said she loved him.
What was he supposed to do with that?
She wasn’t just supposed to say that out loud right to him, was she? He had not been expecting that. The guys and their girlfriends had insinuated for a while now that Piper might have a crush on him but no, he hadn’t expected her to ever say anything herself.
It was a might have. A crush. Okay, they were adults and maybe adults didn’t have crushes exactly, but everything anyone had said suggested that it was just that Piper thought he was interesting at times and that she didn’t hate spending time with him.
But a crush wasn’t love. For fuck’s sake.
And it had to be Piper?
Piper Barry was amazing. She was gorgeous. She was smart. She was capable. She could do anything. She was funny and sweet and sassy and tough.
She was intimidating as hell.
What was he supposed to do with her now?
What was he supposed to do without her now?
Well, the solution seemed pretty obvious. She’d basically given him the answer herself—I can’t be in love with you and work for you. And the only one of those two things I can change is the working for you part.
So he needed to get her to not be in love with him anymore. Then she’d come back to work and all would be fine.
Now he just had to get her to realize she could do a hell of a lot better than him.
Of course, he’d been a pain in her ass for five years now. If that didn’t do it, he wasn’t sure what would.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Erin Nicholas has been writing romances almost as long as she’s been reading them. To date, she’s written over thirty sexy, contemporary novels that have been described as “toe-curling,” “enchanting,” “steamy,” and “fun.” She adores reluctant heroes, imperfect heroines, and happily ever afters.
Erin lives in the Midwest, where she enjoys spending time 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 her family and friends (who claim to be “shocked” by the sex scenes in her books).
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