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His to Seduce

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This one took me a bit to find my groove but one I did I was flipping pages like crazy. I’m always for finicky with Contemporary romance books. It’s hard to find that keeps me going. But this one did.

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Sweet and steamy romance; I wasn’t a fan of the whole no strings scenario right from the beginning of this story, but I liked Camden and David together. Good chemistry and fun banter. I didn’t fully connect with Camden; she’s too judgmental. Camden doesn’t want more than some steamy time with David because she thinks he’s just a lowly bartender. Luckily for Camden, David still wants more with her. They are cute together and David is a sweetie! Also, it’s fun checking in with characters from the past books too! Overall, an entertaining read. I’ve enjoyed this whole series!

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This book was so entertaining. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and was involved until the end. The characters were complex and interesting. I found the story to be well paced and engrossing throughout the whole book. I was invested in the couple throughout the book and felt all the emotions through both the highs and lows of the story.The side characters were such an integral part of this story as well. This is the love story i needed to read at this time. If you want an entertaining and well written book this is it for you

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Back to the Fireside Grill. Back to the people who make this series fun and interesting. Stacey Lynn really held my attention throughout His to Seduce. I can always count on her to give us characters with a bit of tragedy in their pasts and a way for them to work through it with the other by their side. David and Camden were no different.

David, former doctor, current bartender. Best friends with Declan and Tyson. Unfortunately, he’s close to losing those friendships, losing the woman who could be the love of his life. He has to come clean and tell everyone exactly what drove him back from Chicago to Latham Hills and the Fireside Grill. The truth will either set him free or lose him everything that he holds dear in his life. After a disastrous dinner where his past meets his present, he knows he has no choice but to tell Camden why he lied and made her think he was living the life of a care-free bartender.

Camden has her own trust issues and problems in her past. Brought up by a single mother in a trailer, she’s not proud of her past but she’s proud of the woman that raised her. An incident that happened when she was 12 years old has her holding back in her life. With her friendships, with men … she knows that they can’t handle the truth and can’t trust them to not look at her with pity instead of love. When David comes clean, she knows that she owes it to him to tell him the truth but she still can’t face everything. When push came to shove, when she yelled out what happened, he stepped back and left her feeling like she was no longer good enough for him. Little did she know that he stepped back to give her space to come to terms with him loving her and wanting to be there to support her.

So, unfortunately, there was a little too much angst in this story for me. Camden just dragged out her past way too long. She lived on lists, order, nothing that she could call “living” a life but just surviving a life until David showed her how much fun living can be. When her past is thrown in her face, she feels betrayed, not freed. I just couldn’t connect with her. David was just the opposite. When he realized how much he hurt her, he swallowed his pride and opened his heart to her. Too bad she couldn’t give him that back.

I loved that David pushed Camden to let go, have fun, test her limits … too bad she didn’t do that with her heart earlier in the story. The beginning of the story was HOT … the end of the story was beautiful. And, I did enjoy His To Seduce. Stacey Lynn always makes me smile and the HEA was beautiful. I loved the support shown by both families and the way David brought them all together. Her characters are always well thought-out, fun and compelling and her story-line never falters. Enjoy your trip back to the Fireside Grill.

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I’m loving Stacey Lynn! She is definitely becoming one of my favorite authors! I was sucked in from the first page and couldn’t stop reading!

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Received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

Another good Fireside read - this one about David and Camden. David is hiding from his past as a doctor after a terrible case. Camden has lived her life barely scraping by and refuses to go back to that and so she's skeptical of if David actually has anything to offer. The story starts in the middle, with things getting hot and heavy pretty quickly and then they have to deal with the emotional repercussions of their pasts.

This read was sweet and had enough heart to keep me invested. I wasn't blown away, just because it felt like these two were constantly keeping things from one another, and that's no way to have a relationship, but by the end, they were starting to get the hang of things.

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A perfect pairing...two damaged, broken people finding each other, David and Camden's story is wonderfully sexy, sweetly romantic, and a fabulous ending to a great series. My only issue was Camden's kind of catty attitude. She wasn't my favorite of charcters, although I really liked the story.

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This is David and Camdens story. This is the 4th book in the series. Good read, kept me intrigued. Thanks Netgalley for the Arc

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A wonderful ending to a great series…

I loved the Fireside series from the first pages of His to Love and the love affair never ended. A close-knit group of friends, they were brought together in different ways, sticking together through thick and thin. And there was a lot of both in David and Camden’s story…

David was a doctor who couldn’t face the life-altering decisions he had to make every day in the ER. His past had brought him a career he wasn’t sure he wanted anymore. On the flip side, Camden’s career had the structure she craved and couldn’t fathom doing anything else. Lists, goals – it all kept her moving forward and not dwelling on a past she couldn’t completely shake…

Unspoken truths meant these two were going to butt heads before all was said and done. And that meant sizzling heat and heartbreaking revelations that this author knows how to weave so well, complete with family and humour enveloping every page. David was a battered hero who loved his family and was well on his way to falling for Camden when the opportunity to push her for more came. Camden was intrigued and attracted to David but was definitely making him work for forgiveness and a second chance… I cheered David (and his crazy, loving family) as the pursuit kicked into high gear.

A warm, sizzling journey that spoke of huge rewards if you dare to venture out of your comfort zone and trust in the right person. While I didn’t want this series to end, Camden and David were the perfect goodbye… ~Diane, 4.5 stars

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David McGregor’s dream had always been to be an ER doctor. However, when tragedy strikes at the hospital he works at in Chicago, he runs back home to Michigan. After taking a job as a bartender, he meets Camden, a woman determined to not give him the time of day. He is determined to show her just how good they would be together.
This was a pretty good book. I’ve read other books by this author but I don’t think I’ve read any from this series, but it works fine as a standalone. The story itself was pretty straight-forward. There were plenty of steamy scenes and I really loved David. While I felt for Camden, she got on my nerves a bit. I look forward to reading more from this author.
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His to Seduce is the 4th book in the Fireside Series. This one is about David and Camden. Those friends of friends that have such a powerful connection when around one another. This book starts out with David and Camden in Jamaica at their friends wedding. After a hot weekend together, Camden and David's secrets come out and cause problems. But David doesn't let Camden run from him. He is determined to make Camden his.
I loved David's tenacity and even when I wanted to slap Camden at times, I understood where she was coming from. I am so happy that these 2 were able to get their HEA.

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Now this is a book that’s just right up my alley. Stacey Lynn gives us an amazing story full of sweet and tender moments interspersed with smoking hot ones. This is only my second book of hers I’ve read and I’m quickly becoming a fan. Right away, David and Camden’s chemistry is in your face. I swear my glasses were fogging up. These two have it going on in that sense. It’s when David wants to take it further that that things start to stall. Now if you’ve read the previous three books in the series you’ll have a bit of a background on these two. I’ve only read one so I have a smidge of one. But it is absolutely not necessary to have read them; this could easily read as a standalone.

Camden is a Type-A, must be always in control, list-making woman. She rarely lets her hair down and has definite ideas on who she sees in her future as a partner. And David is not it. He’s sexy, carefree and lighthearted. Plus he’s currently spending time slinging drinks behind his best friend’s bar. But with both of them images can be deceiving. These two are beautifully developed characters. They have well thought-out backstories that fuel the storyline as well as their weaknesses and strengths. I have to admit, though, that Camden’s standoffishness makes it hard to connect with her and that I felt that of the two I feel like I got to know her the least. David is what really sold me on the book. His determination and tenderness with Camden melted my heart.

The drama within is about low to mid angst scale. I was definitely tearing up at points. Neither of them have easy stories to swallow. But Lynn does counter some of the drama and angst with well-placed humor. I loved David’s family. I wish we had seen more of the characters from the other books but they were pretty scarce here. It just makes me want to go back and read their stories even more.

If you like passionate stories that warm the heart, then definitely pick this one up. David’ll have you melting into goo in no time.

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While a fan of this author and this particular series, this story wasn't one of my favorites. I struggled to connect with the H and h and felt some of that passion/it factor from the other stories was missing here.

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Stacey Lynn's series just keeps getting better and better with David and Camden's story.

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I have enjoyed all the books in this series, except this one. For whatever reason I could just not get into it. I tried to read it on multiple occasions, but it just didn't grab my attention. In no way was it a bad book just not what I was expecting after reading the rest of the series.

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I've been following this series since it's inception and have, for the most part, been enjoying the cast of characters, as each of the women and men find their HEA ending, but this last novel in the series left me with mixed emotions, which is why I could not give it more than a 3.5 star rating.

His to Seduce centers around the relationship between David, who tends bar at the Fireside Grill, and Camden, one of the gals who meet at the grill for Margaritas, laughter and even tears, and Camden is also the one woman in the group I've liked the least because in the glimpses we've seen of her throughout the series, she's been the most straitlaced, standoffish, buttoned-down, and inaccessible of the group, and the reasons for her demeanor and the secret driving her behavior are central to the plot of this novel.

We know almost nothing about David, other that the fact that he's working as a bartender at the Fireside Grill, and is best friends with Declan and Tyson, two heroes from previous novels. He too has secrets that he fears may cause him to lose those friendships if he doesn't reveal them soon, and possibly lose his chance to win the heart of Camden, the woman with whom he's been incessantly flirting for months. Unfortunately, after hearing Camden admit that she'd never date a bartender, he assumes she's a snob and a gold-digger, who's after his family fortune (one she doesn't even know about).

Everything changes when the entire group attends Tyson and Blue's wedding at a resort in Jamaica, all expenses paid by the happy couple, and David finally gets Camden alone and the two have sex in a closet during the wedding, and then spend the rest of their stay on the island enjoying each other, in and out of bed. It's clear that David is crazy about Camden, but has yet to reveal his secrets to her, and although she's having the time of her life with David, Camden still won't open up to him, and when he questions the scar on her leg, she tells him it was from an accident when she was 12 years old, and that's not even close to the truth. When an incident at the resort forces David to reveal part of his secret (no spoilers from me), Camden is devastated, feels as if he's played her for a fool and lied to her, and she flees the resort early, taking the last flight off the island at 1:30 a.m.

David, after dealing with the emergency situation, returns to the resort to come clean to Camden, only to learn that she's already gone home. He hires a private plane and when Camden opens the door to her home in Detroit, he's already inside, waiting for her, and hoping to get back in her good graces. It's at this point in the story that was the reason I downgraded my rating of this novel.

Yes, Camden had a traumatic and troubled event in her childhood, one that no child should ever have to face, but the worst thing that could have happened to her, actually didn't, and to carry her angst about it despite 16 years of time and therapy should have given her all the tools she needed to get past it and get on with her life. Long, personal story short, been there, survived that, which is why I simply couldn't accept that the incident Camden survived and actually triumphed over caused her to stop living her life and led her to hide behind a shield of a straitlaced wardrobe, silence (even among dear and trusted friends), hiding her pain and her emotions, and relying on lists and rote routines, and calling that a life. Her overreaction to what happened to her simply was so over the top as to be unbelievable to this reader. Even after David admits his own secrets to her, Camden still maintains her silence, and I can't think of a woman who, faced with a man as sweet, charming, intelligent, giving, noble, loving, supportive, adventurous, exciting and sexy as David, could possibly still resist him.

Yes, there's an HEA ending, and yes, this novel is well-written, the sex scenes are sizzling hot, the the supporting cast of friends and family were incredibly appealing, and the hero among the best among the thousands of novels I've read, but the angst level, it's duration, and Camden's unreasonable behavior made this novel less a 5-star read for me.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book and received no compensation for doing so. The opinions expressed are my own.

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I really love it like all the others. Very intense and emotional. Make me cry at the end.

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I LOVED the first 50% of this book! Absolutely loved it!

At a friend's wedding, Camden and David finally give in to their mutual attraction and end up spending the weekend together. They finally get to know each other after months of flirting on David's part and non interest from Camden.

My issue is by 70% you know everything. There's nothing left to uncover. David has bared his soul to Camden about why he suddenly appeared at the Fireside Grill and begs her forgiveness for keeping a secret. By this point in the book we know Camden's story because she rehashes it with someone else. Essentially all that remains is Camden telling David about her past. This takes until nearly the end of the book.

I felt the second half of the book dragged out, there was nothing new gained.

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5 Stars!

Stacey Lynn captivated me from the very first book in the Fireside series. I have had the pleasure of reading each of them as they release and man let me tell you... each boom had provided an incredible journey.

This series is so good... addicting, sweet, angsty, sexy, passionate, and beautifully written. Lynn knows how to grab hold of her readers hearts and not let go until she has left you completely satisfied. His to Seduce is the fourth and final in the series, really tugged at me heart... and left me just a little breathless.

Camden and David are both broken... hiding behind a facade, trying to push the best they each can. But when their hearts collide and souls meet, can they heal the wounds of the past and find love together? Their journey is full of ups and downs and everything in between... but for these two, every moment and every emotion was all totally worth it.

While I'm sad to see this series go, it had been such a beautifully broken journey... and I wouldn't change one single moment.

I highly recommend this book and fantastic series.

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This is probably the best story in the series hands down. A little sweet and a little sexy, it's a great weekend read and a truly enjoyable story. Can't wait to see what's next.

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