Stranded by a hurricane. Check. Hotel secured. Check. Hot guy to share it with. Check. No, wait. Not him! A tough girl with an awkward flirt-game, Claire has long ago given up on catching the eye of Irish hottie Conor and she refuses to change. If he doesn't like her as is, then screw him. A loner workaholic too busy to notice, Conor isn't looking to nail the next chick--even one as hot as Claire--just his next bonus-earning presentation. But when a hurricane strands them in Atlanta and they're forced to shack up in the same hotel room for several days, things tend to get…exposed.
So, this was a pretty good quick read. I liked both characters and I liked their POVs, even liked Conor’s POV in Irish. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 (really should've been 3.5) was because every time Conor (or his sister) spoke, the dialog ended with “yeah”. I’ve been to Ireland, was there for a week, and not one person I came across in my drive around the country spoke like that. It didn’t bother me at first, but the further into the book, the more it bothered me. Beyond that, I recommend.
**I voluntarily read and reviewed this book

I really think this series peaked with the first book, which is a shame, since I really enjoyed the author's story in the Some Like It Geek Anthology. In particular, the story lacked spark and felt rushed to me.

Claire and Conor have been wanting each other for a while now, but not acting on it until their forced together by a hurricane. It seemed like they were in their own little bubble, which would have worked great, except for the fact that all they focused on was a sexual relationship. Claire has a pretty big secret, which is the reason behind some of her actions while in the hotel room, but it's only used in the context of arousing Conor. While I'm no prude, it didn't seem like the book took enough advantage of the forced companionship for them to open up to one another. There was also very little of the sport mentioned. No mention of going to the hotel gym to continue with training regimes, no mention of a comparison between the womens and mens teams, nothing. It didn't make sense to me to have them both be in this sport and not talk about it!

All things considered, I would have liked it to be a longer read. It's great for the beach, if you don't expect too much from it. I'll be wary of this author's work in the future, I think.

I'm not usually a fan of romances where there are prickly interactions between the characters.  Usually I feel like one or the other (or both) of them is being an a** but I think that Quarles does a pretty good job here of making it work.  Once they start to get over themselves and connect, they are a good match together.  And being stuck in the same hotel room during a hurricane definitely forces them to get friendly :)

I really enjoyed getting to know Conor and he's such a good guy.  He's got some insecurities that totally works for him - helps his image and doesn't take away from his sexiness.  Claire also has a past that has left her with some scars and while I kinda wish she'd been a little more open with Conor I can totally see where she's coming from.  Thanks to her childhood she's made herself pretty tough but there's still soft spots that she's trying hard to protect.

Deserving It does have a shortened time frame, but with the forced cohabitation and the fact that they have known each other for a while it works for me.  They still have their issues to work through and there is, of course, the minor freak out at the end but I really like the way they find their way to a HEA.

(While part of a series, this one can easily stand on its own.)

A quick easy and sweet story between Conor and Clair. They are both in the same sport and team just one is in man, the other in women but they both think that others don't like him/her. A tornado changes everything. They are forced to be roommates for the storm to pass. And with a lot of free time, they get the opportunity to really know each other and for the other hot things too. I liked both of them Conor is one big soft teddy bear in heart, with great heart and need to fix everything. Clair has grown so much from the insecure girl that she once was. And the time that they spend together really opens both of their eyes that they haw grown and that they are strong and they accept one another as they are.
I volunteered to review an ARC of this book for NetGalley

Enjoyed reading Conor and Claire’s love story about secret attraction and finding someone who helps you deal with your past. Recommended read

This third book in the Stolen Moments series was just as delightful as the first two! I wasn’t quite looking forward to this book as I was the last two in the series (Earning It and Risking It), because the main characters here were two of my less favorite to appear prior to this: Claire and Connor. Unlike Pepper & Luke and Jane & Aiden, these two seemed a little more abrasive. Claire is kind of pushy and “prickly” in the prior volumes; while Connor’s “no nonsense” attitude and Irish accent were a bit off-putting to me. But they both proved to be totally darling characters!

Once again, this tale was told in alternating perspective, from his point of view and then hers, alternating by chapter. I usually don’t like this method of storytelling, because I tend to find it rather confusing. But the author clearly labelled their individual sections, as well as very easily gave each of the characters their own distinctive voice. And it was nice to learn how each of them was thinking and feeling about the events that were unfolding.

The story dealt a lot with the individual insecurities and personal baggage of Claire and Connor. This one, much more than the others, also involved quite a bit of family drama for them to wade through. It made them both seem like much more complex characters than otherwise would have been the case.

There was quite a bit less action in this tale due to the limitations of its creation, i.e. basically being stranded in a hotel room during a hurricane. Just about every scene in the story was entertaining though, even when they are involved in such mundane things as doing their laundry and heating up frozen pizza. The strip-poker scene was amazing, and the other love scenes nearly equally as hot.

Since this story is about the captains of the hurling team and the female equivalent camogie, I was quite worried that there would be an awful lot of sports situations and lingo this time around. In fact, however, there was even less reference to the games than in the prior editions. Something that pleased me as a non-sports fan.

I definitely recommend this great read, and the others in the series as well. I am totally bummed that this the last book in the series! I wish the author were continuing it with ALL the members of the hurling team, just so that I could live a few moments longer in this delightful world she has created.

Deserving It by new to me author Angela Quarles, is an entertaining book. The two main characters, Claire and Conor, reside in the Sarasota area of Florida. They are the captains of their local hurling teams. They are realistic and easy to get to know. Both of them have been attracted to each other for a few years, but have done nothing about it. After advancing their teams to the next level of play, they are en-route back to their respective homes. Unfortunately, or fortunately for them, a hurricane closes down the airport and they are stuck with each other until the weather clears. They fall into hot and heavy lust, which evolves into more.

Claire and Conor are a hot couple, and I enjoyed being a part of their lives. Conor is from Ireland, so his use of Irish English was quite funny at times. Claire's personality was interesting, and her coping mechanisms were understandable. This is the third book from the author's Stolen Moments series and it can enjoyed as a standalone.

Complimentary copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley.

Fresh fun romance

Angela Quarles won me over as a reader with "Deserving It".

Conor and Claire have known each other for years but neither was aware of the others romantic interest in the other.
Thrown together by a hurricane they discover each other and more about their own selves.

I loved the. together as a couple . I thought their interactions were realistic and I was rooting them on to a HEA. Conpr jumped out of the pages as an Irishman and I loved his "accent" and the Irish terms he used. The plot line kept my attention to the very end.
This was a sweet and sexy read and I look forward to reading more by this author.
I received an Advance Reader copy from Netgalley.

I loved the vocabulary and accent Conor had, “I won’t be saying no to that, but you’re acting like you’ve never seen a man’s wire before.” Conor obviously needs to work on his gift giving, "she looks in the plastic bag. Closes it. Then looks up at me, confused. “You got me panties? White panties?” I liked this book, it was a fun read I fell in love with Conor the man was every woman's dream.

3.5 STARS!!!
Although this is the third book in this series it can be read as a stand-alone. I've enjoyed this book as much as I did the previous books in this series. Deserving It gives us Conor and Claire's story. It was a good romance read with a lot of steamy scenes that you will enjoy. This was a very light read and it gives you a little bit of the characters past with their family members and ex's, which helps you understand the characters a little bit more. My only complaint about this story was be that the ending felt rushed. It seemed as if it came out of nowhere. I actually thought I somehow skipped a few pages on my kindle so I went back to check and I hadn't. That was a little disappointing because I liked the story but I didn't like the way it ended. Would I recommend this book? Yes, because it is a good romance read and I feel it's worth reading. I look forward to reading more books from this author in the future.

After I read the first two books in this series, I said I couldn't wait to read Conor's story and it doesn't disappoint! I loved the Irish "slang" and it was so well written that I could actually hear his words with that distinct Irish brogue. I loved Claire when we were first introduced to her and I love her even more after reading Deserving It. This was a quick, fun, sexy, surprisingly emotional read for me. After reading all 3 books in this series, I will definitely be reading more from this author! I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC for NetGalley.

Conor is the captain of a men's hurling team and Claire is a member of the women's team, she has fancied him from afar for ages but got no traction, until a cancelled flight in a storm brings the two of them together. Sharing a hotel room lets them get to know each other better and a competitive game of strip poker when the electricity goes out takes things to a new level.

This is the third book in a series, I haven't read the other two books and this can be read as a stand-alone, although I wonder how much back story to Claire and Conor's romance would be explained in them. Both Conor and Claire have issues with their mothers - issues that aren't really explored more, they come off as an after-thought.

The first chapter of the book assumes you have read the preceding books and just launches into a dialogue between players, the morning after winning the playoffs but all becomes clear.

Conor is Irish and Angela Quarles doesn't want us to forget it, every single sentence he utters seems to have some Irish brogue or 'saying'. I'm English and I've worked with Irish people, even ones with heavy accents and I've not heard half the things that Conor says on a regular basis. After a while it became a bit boring TBH, we get that he's Irish just ease up on the brogue!

Most of the action takes place in a very short period of time while Conor and Claire are in the hotel room and the resulting effect is one of claustrophobia with a lot of sex.

I have had Angela Quarles' Must Love Chainmail on my Amazon wishlist forever so when I saw this book available for request on NetGalley I jumped at the chance. Overall, while this was okay it didn't really grab me and I'm not sure I would want to read the previous books in the series.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

2.5 - I love all his expressions… Stars.

We return to Angela Quarles hugely enjoyable Stolen Moments series with the third book Deserving It giving us Conor and Claire’s story.

I'm starting to see that opening up to someone isn't necessarily a bad thing...

This book had so much potential, the author has a snappy entertaining writing style, and I absolutely adored its predecessors and characters because of it. But for me the Angela lost the story through the over exaggeration of Conor being Irish. Coming from the UK I would like to think I have at least an average grasp of the language used by the Irish, and I literally spent 40% of the book not understanding what he was saying, and another 40% working it out even though it had been botched together and sometimes ridiculously so. One of my pet peeves is authors trying to being in an accent or type of dialect particular to a specific country/region, and then completely butchering it and the author did it with bells on, on this occasion.

I highlighted so much of this book, for the wrong reasons, and I have put the Greatest Hits below –

~ Christ bleeding on the cross.
~ “Chill the beans, now there. Didn’t mean for you to take a hopper.”
~“My bleeding mobile is bleeding after me.”
~‘diddies’
~“dead feek?”
~“What the bleeding hell? You’ve got a maggoting idea there, you have.”
~Muppeting plonker.

I could go on (and on), it verged on the ridiculous a lot of the time, and I spent so long at points trying to decipher what the author was attempting to get across, the actual story between the pair of them became secondary. The use of Bleeding and Fecking/Feck was just too much as well. I may be wrong, and if you are Irish and reading this review, please do correct me if the above selection is common speak, but as a reader, no matter the characters country of birth, although I appreciate an author attempting to be authentic in the language, I still want to be able to understand what is being said and not get distracted from the actual story because of it.

"Challenge accepted."

That said, and annoying language aside I really liked Claire (feisty) and Connor (adorable), another couple stuck in an unusual situation together, that then kick-starts a relationship. Both of them have their own demons they are dealing with, and I like the fact they both complimented each other in that area.

"The storm might have thrown us together in this room, but it’s not why I’m in this bed with you."

Although not an outright winner on this occasion, I still want to read more from this series and this author, and I look forward to reading whoever’s story she decides to write next.

3.5 Stars. This is a cute book that didn't take forever to read (which was nice, in my opinion). It is well written and well edited, has likeable characters, and has an interesting plot. It's not one of those books that wowed me so much that I'll read it again, or even remember much about it in a month, but it was certainly an enjoyable read. I like that it had just enough angst to make it interesting but not so much that I got impatient with it. Conor is an absolute doll, and his insecurities make him seem more real and do not detract from his sex appeal; Claire is tough as nails, with good reason, but comes around pretty quickly to realize what's right in front of her. This is the third book in a series but can definitely be read as a standalone (which it was for me). I wish this author's previous works were on Kindle Unlimited because I would read the other books in the series if so. I think they are a little pricey (at $3.99) for their length, though.