Can’t Stand the Heat

Can’t Stand the Heat by Shelly Ellis                Audio Book:  10 hours       Hardback Book:  466 pages                      

The Gibbons women sure know how to work men and these ladies have been clever and skilled at the art of love and going after and getting rich men to fall in love with them then support them and their expensive tastes in clothes, jewelry, cars, homes and furnishings, travel, etc.       These ladies have been doing this for over 3 generations and now they are going into a new generation though,  whether things will continue forward or end with the current mother and daughters is a tale to be found out later.    Amazing finesse taught by mothers to their daughters in how to trap a man but not how to love a man.     Like geishas these women are brought up to be beautiful and use all of the attributes to be trophies on the arm of any man they set their sights on and those men must meet the criteria of being rich, successful and generous with taking care of their lady.   If the guy has some freaky tastes, so be it, that is the price you pay for getting to be covered in diamonds and jetting to St. Tropez and any other hot vacation spot around the world.   If you want to drive a jaguar that somebody else pays for you to have you have to “stroke” a man’s…ego and these ladies are born performers in the boudoir arts.   Hot and steamy at times, funny, vulnerable and wickedly fun at others.    The things these ladies get away with though there is a chink in the classy, cultured world they navigate, there are haters in every life that just can’t be avoided.   This story tells Lauren “Laurie: Gibbons particular tale and how she lived the life, left the life, dealt with consequences and hardships, loved and defended, fought for, fought with and fought against family and seeks to find her own way through it all.     Good story.   Some situations were predictable but always entertaining.   When a party girl starts acting shy and demure you might want to say, “huh?”  but maybe it was that man that choked her that had something to do with that.    If you like urban novels  you will definetly like this story.   Part of a series I found out titled the Gibbons Gold Digger series.   Gotta check out all the ladies stories in this series.   If you like your romance stories full of hearts and flowers – this ain’t it.   But, if you like your romance gritty and real you will  like this story.  I did.