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Melt
Melt
Melt
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Melt

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Jonah Steel is intelligent, rich, and hard-working. As the oldest of his siblings, he was charged by his father to protect them.

He failed in the worst way.

Dr. Melanie Carmichael has her own baggage. Although the renowned therapist was able to help Jonah’s brother, she is struggling with feelings of inadequacy. When the oldest Steel walks into her office seeking solace, she can’t turn her back.

As Melanie and Jonah attempt to work through their issues together, desperately trying to ignore the desire brewing between them, ghosts from both their pasts surface…and danger draws near.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 20, 2016
ISBN9781522652618
Melt
Author

Helen Hardt

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helen Hardt’s passion for the written word began with the books her mother read to her at bedtime. She wrote her first story at age six and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to being an award winning author of contemporary and historical romance and erotica, she’s a mother, an attorney, a black belt in Taekwondo, a grammar geek, an appreciator of fine red wine, and a lover of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. She writes from her home in Colorado, where she lives with her family. Helen loves to hear from readers. Visit her at: helenhardt.com or facebook.com/helenhardt.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I thought I would love Jonah.

    I was dying for his story with Melanie but it fell short. Their steamy, intimate scenes were too quick off the mark and no reasonable moments for them to happen when they did. Melanie seemed to revolve everything around her desire to be mounted by Jonah which I love but not when it's every interaction.

    The plot that runs behind all these books has great potential and I will probably carry on the series to finally tie together all the pieces. I really wanted more depth to the character's relationship and the side characters also seemed to change. Talon was not the character I remembered from the first three books, he seemed to be a completely different character.

    i don't think I'll be diving into book 5 too soon.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I… can’t deal with the male narrator’s “female” voice. Can’t believe they let that roll through production.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The suspense is really good Book kept me interested! Really like the way all the characters are in all the books
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Damn it, I have been roped into this series against my will and I can't think of a way to get out of reading every single shitty book this author pumps out without hurting a friend's feelings. Sigh. And so, for the fourth installment in this ridiculous series, we have now switched to Jonah and Melanie, both of whom were introduced in the previous three books. The shift was a bit jarring, but I was glad to get out of Talon's head in particular, as well as Jade's. Surely this book, featuring Jonah (who seemed more level-headed than Talon) and Melanie (who seemed much more mature than Jade) won't be as shitty as the prior three, right?Wrong. Because even though the author has theoretically switched characters, Jonah is almost EXACTLY like Talon, and Melanie is almost EXACTLY like Jade. First off, one of my pet peeves is how the author has obviously NEVER been to (Grand) Junction; if she has, she defintely didnt pay any attention. She actually said that there was a skid row in Junction! SKID ROW! Dude, Junction has its problems - there is illegal drug use and the associated problems that come with it. It has some homeless people (a lot of them are temporary, young adults hitching across the country and hitting up "the west"). But I cannot imagine a SKID ROW, or even an area so freaking shady that there is a plethora of "bums" who will either beat up a Steel brother who wants to be hit (Jonah) or a Steel brother who wants to "defend" himself after someone tries to pick his pocket (Talon). I get that this mythical seedy side of Junction is a driving factor in this series, but if you're going to make a town so bad, you should probably just make up a name for a fictional setting (Snow Creek, for example, is not a real place). Once again, the Steel brother (Jonah this time around) equates being "dominant" with being a grade A asshole. Even after Melanie tells him that she doesn't want to see him anymore, he keeps showing up - I call this stalking. And he WILL NOT take no for an answer, because he just KNOWS that she secretly wants to say yes. Fuck you, Jonah Steel, and anyone else who doesn't think that a woman can make up her own mind about what she wants or desires. While Jonah and Melanie are having shitty sex (to be honest, I skipped through most of the sex scenes, because they are SO FUCKING BAD in this series - more on that later), he slaps her ass. Melanie, who is forty years old and yet as shy and retiring as an eighteen year old virgin (more on THAT later, as well), has never been slapped around during sex and doesn't know if she likes it or not, so she tells him that she doesn't particularly care for it and to not do it. He gets pissed! Jonah was about to perform oral sex on her, but since she doesn't mesh 100% with his sexual desires, he just flops on his back and seems to lose all interest in Melanie until she gives him a blowjob. Ick (for his attitude, not necessarily the blowjob, although as a lesbian myself - double ick!). But never fear! In his mental ramblings, Jonah tells himself that Melanie, who told him that she didn't want him to slap her in bed (not on her face, just her ass and breast), will LEARN to like it. He'll make her learn to like it! FUCKYOUVERYMUCHAnd that is how a man who is "dominant" is supposed to act, which makes me think that the author (who has already proven that she does not have a grasp on basic human anatomy) has absolutely NO FUCKING CLUE about D/s. And let's get on to Melanie, who as I mentioned (beneath the previous spoiler cut) is forty years old and yet is as blushing and retiring as a teenaged virgin. Look, it's okay to be vanilla. It's fine. But Melanie, who has had sex with multiple men, including one night stands (which makes me think that she's not so "vanilla" after all), seems to be completely clueless about her own body - AND SHE'S A FUCKING DOCTOR, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! She doesn't seem to know what she does or doesn't like during sex (and the one time she tells Jonah she doesn't like something, he turns into a petulant child), and she doesn't seem to be very active in their sexual relationship. And it's okay to be a passive partner - if that is what you want to be. But I never got the feeling that that is what Melanie WANTED - she was just stuck in this loop where she HAD to be passive, she HAD to be ignorant of her own body, and she HAD to just let Jonah do whatever the fuck he wanted to her and hope that he cared enough to get her off in the process.I mean, I'm closer to forty than I am to thirty, and I am light years ahead of this woman when it comes to sexuality, even though she's older than I am. And like I said - nothing wrong with being vanilla, nothing wrong with being passive - IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WANT. But I really can't believe that Melanie hasn't gotten a vibrator at some point in her life and discovered what BOB (or BOG) can do for her. Her sexual immaturnity is just painful to read. Painful.And speaking of Melanie's body, every time she talks about it, she keeps putting herself down. She isn't stacked. She's too lean and athletic. She's a perfect size six, but she's just average. GIVE IT A FUCKING REST. She has what is considered a "perfect" body by American standards, and every time someone tries to compliment her, she just tears herself a new one. I FUCKING HATE THIS TROPE IN ROMANCE! It's like a woman HAS to look good in a typical romance book, but she's not allowed to think that she does indeed look good. This trope almost literally makes me vomit at times, and this is one of those times. Melanie sounds more like a whiny thirteen year old than a forty year old woman.And speaking of tropes that I hate, I got some more up my sleeve! I also hate the "this is the best sex I've ever had so it must be love" trope, which gets heavy play in both Jonah/Melanie and Talon/Jade. Sex does not equal love! You can have great sex with someone you don't love and not-so-great sex with someone you do love! Sometimes the shittiest sex you'll have is with someone you love, and that's okay! Also, super sick of the "he's got a huuuuuuge dick so this is the greatest sex I've ever had" trope. As a lesbian who has never had sex with a man willingly, I don't get the appeal in het (and often gay) romances with the big dick thing. Personally, sleeping with someone who is wielding a baseball bat between his legs sounds unattractive on multiple levels. And if the guy doesn't know how to use said baseball bat, it sounds even MORE "do not want" to me. And like I already admitted, I skimmed through the sex scenes, because I knew if they were anything like the ones between Talon and Jade (which they totally were), they would be god-awful. Melanie, like Jade, has the rare "ruby red" nipples and labia. WTF. Has the author ever looked at a woman naked before? I have slept with several woman, and never ONCE have I found ruby red nipples or labia, haha. Finally, allow myself to declare my disgust for the cliffhanger ending, which I KNEW would be coming because the author is incapable of wrapping any storylines up at all, apparently. Cliffhangers like that make me think that the author believes that the story isn't strong enough to draw readers back, so she has to "pull them in" with a cliffhanger - and that is lazy storytelling.