WOW: Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Cream of the Crop (Hudson Valley #2)
by Alice Clayton

Release Date: July 12, 2016

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alice Clayton brings her trademark blend of funny and sexy to this second contemporary romance in the brand-new Hudson Valley series!

Manhattan's It Girl, Natalie Grayson, has it all: she's a hot exec at a leading advertising firm, known industry-wide for her challenging and edgy campaigns. She's got a large circle of friends, a family that loves her dearly, and her dance card is always full with handsome eligible bachelors. What else could a modern gal-about-town wish for? The answer, of course, is...cheese.

Natalie's favorite part of each week is spending Saturday morning at the Union Square Farmer's Market, where she indulges her love of all things triple cream. Her favorite booth also indulges her love of all things handsome. Oscar Mendoza, owner of the Bailey Falls Creamery and purveyor for the finest atisanal cheeses the Hudson Vally has to offer, is tall, dark, mysterious, and a bit oblivious. Or so she thinks. But that doesn't stop Natalie from fantasizing about the size of his, ahem, milk can.

Romance is churning, passion is burning, and something incredible is rising to the top. Could it be...love?

Aahhh, I'm really looking forward to this one! You meet both Natalie and Oscar in Nuts, the first book of the series, and I can't wait to see their story play out. If you haven't read Nuts I recommend it. It's a foodie lovers paradise infused with humor and romance.

Wallbanger by Alice Clayton

Wallbanger
by Alice Clayton

Stand Alone Novel

Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Omnific Publishing

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and – was that a meow? – punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.

Enter Simon Parker. (No, really, Simon, please enter.) When the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. Their late-night hallway encounter has, well, mixed results. Ahem. With walls this thin, the tension’s gonna be thick…

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My Thoughts:

Have you ever accidentally (or not so accidentally) overheard strangers doing the deed? No wait, maybe I don’t want to hear the answer to that, haha.

Wallbanger is great characters all wrapped up in a funny, sweet, and sexy story. I could easily see myself hanging out with Caroline and her friends and having a great time. It’s a small detail but I love that she talks to her cat, Clive, as if he’s a person….because really, what pet owner doesn’t?! Clive ends up being a fun addition. Cover to cover this book is an entertaining read. Heck, even the summary alone makes me want to read it again.

My only gripe would be that the book felt long. Although I did like the ending it just seemed as though it wasn’t really needed and it could have ended at a different spot.

Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5