A sexy standalone romance from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely! That inked bad boy who’s been flirting hard with me since he rode into town? Turns out he’s my new housemate, which is one heck of a problem since our chemistry is so hot it should be illegal. I have a fantastic family, great best friends, a job I love…and now I’m up for a promotion to police sergeant. I need total focus–not a … promotion to police sergeant. I need total focus–not a flirty, dirty, irresistible, tattooed hottie riding into my town on his motorcycle. Can I arrest him for being too good-looking? When he kisses me senseless in the back of a waffle truck, it’s criminal, the things he makes me think about hot syrup and melted butter. One order of hot, fluffy hookup to go, please. But the next time I see him, it’s not for our date with benefits. He’s the guy who just rented the room above my garage. I need the rent to pay my bills, not a man like Derek, who I soon discover to be strong, caring, generous, good with kids, and kind to puppies… If I’m not careful, he’ll be moving into my heart as well as my house.
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A no-strings-attached fling with the fiery redhead who revs my engine? Why, yes, that does sound like a delicious perk of my new job in this new town, thank you very much. I’m coming off a bad relationship, and I have zero interest in anything serious. I’ve got all the serious I need helping my sister take care of her three little kids while her husband is deployed. Except, surprise! Perri isn’t just my future fling. Turns out she’s my sexy, sassy landlord. A lease definitely counts as “strings attached,” and as much as I’d like to get tangled in her sheets, I can’t let myself get tangled up in a relationship. But as soon as we put the cuffs on our escapades, I learn over late-night conversations in the kitchen, that my landlord is so much more than the sexiest woman I’ve ever met- she has a quick mind and the biggest heart. Once I’m in, I’m all in. And to convince her that we should see where this goes, I plan on turning up the heat–and not just in the kitchen.more
I am still coming down from the high of reading this book. Oh My Lord the heat between Derek and Perri will cause not only your Kindle to smoke but your body will experience some exhilarating moments where you will either need a cold shower or ….. well you will see what I’m talking about when you read this hot book.
This book is about Perri, the cop friend of Arden from Best Laid Plans. Perri is focused on her career and definitely doesn’t have time for a relationship. When her boss recommends she enter a kissing contest for charity because he and several others in the community are doing the same, she decides that’s what she needs to do to help get the promotion she is after. Now to find a partner for said kissing. Meet Derek, hot as sin EMT with tattoos and a motorcycle and muscles that every woman just wants to run their finger over. Perri and Derek’s fateful meeting puts them in the right place at the right time and let the heated kissing begin.
Lauren Blakely is a word genius and each book she writes I think to myself, “she can’t get any better than this”, but then she proves me wrong and outdoes herself. I am a Lauren Blakely junky. I must read her books, I devour them each and every one but let me say this is my favorite. I am a huge fan of back and forth banter and a build up between characters and this one is the champion of that. The heat between these two will melt you and when you get to know Derek you will fall in love with him. He is my new book boyfriend and it will be challenging to find another to be better. Besides the extreme heat in this book there are so many other “feels” there. This is a great story of friends that love each other and help each other through tough times. It is about a families love and what you do when your family needs you. It’s about letting down your guarded heart and letting someone in, completely, even when you risk losing it all. I also loved that it shows their struggles with their day to day jobs and how we all have lives to live as well as love to cherish and some days are just tougher than others but we get through them.
This book is far better than 5 stars. I am still buzzing from all the “feel goods” it gave me. I received an early copy to read and review. I HIGHLY recommend this book. I can’t wait to get the audio version as well because, holy hotness I know it will be fantastic.
Omg where to begin !!!!!
Well I guess we should start with the cover now normally I can take or leave a cover but this cover has got to be one of the hottest I have seen and if you find the cover hot I can tell you the story is even hotter !!!! This book has it all, characters you will love, plenty of friendly witty banter, some seriously hot sizzling chemistry and it’s set in a smalltown so what more can you want.
Derek may be the hottest tattooed bike riding man on the planet but that doesn’t make him shallow he is the perfect man, he is caring , he is kind, he has a great sense of humour, he cares about kids and he is now my roommate……. Perri needs a roommate and maybe a no strings attached fling could Derek be the man for that job ……
Derek and Perri are a couple you will fall in love with and The Feel Good Factor is a Book you won’t want to end, you will love at the witty banter, you will sigh at the flirty conversation and you will certainly be left with all the right feels you would expect from a great read and the very talented Lauren Blakely and I’m looking forward to where she takes us next.
So many reasons to love this book;
The ginger (squee-ginger!!) sexy officer fantasy mixed with the perfect tattooed EMT makes this the feel good book to read this spring!
Plus–
Lauren Blakely has created the perfect book boyfriend:
Muscled
Inked
Compassionate
Family Oriented
Fantastic All Around Kisser
Derek is the ultimate unicorn of book boyfriends!
Plus—
The Feel Good Factor will make you smile the entire time.
When Derek McBride slightly speeds into town for the first time, it’s not the typical police officer that pulls him over. Instead it’s a hot redhead who becomes the fantasy who consumes his dreams. She also becomes his landlord, which quickly complicates his life. It’s hard to bring those fantasies to life when Perri is the woman who provides the roof over his head.
“Holy redheaded lady-cop fantasy”-Derek
Perri Keating isn’t looking for a relationship, a new tenant-yes, a promotion at work-yes, a relationship-no. When Derek rolls into town he just happens to check off a lot of her boxes when it comes to her type of guy; flirty, tattooed, bad boy. However, when he shows on her doorstep, as her new renter, after a serious makeout session, things get complicated.
“He’s the stuff of panty-melting ovary explosions”-Perri
With rules in place Derek and Perri decide they can be adults and live under the same roof. Keeping their hot-for-each-other emotions under control, but also still practicing for the upcoming kissing contest which could mean, not only the promotion Perri is desiring, but also a chance to raise money for first responders. It’s a sinful win-win.
Even with their hectic schedules, they experience a side of domesticality, they push their flirting to the limits, and their kissing game goes to new levels. The passion between them burns and burns until they ignite. There is no going back and there finally becomes a point where neither of them want to.
What do you do when you don’t want a relationship, but you really want the person you feel everything for?
THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR by Lauren Blakely is a contemporary, adult, stand alone erotic, romance story line focusing on paramedic Derek McBride, and police officer Perri Keating. Perri and Derek were first introduced in the author’s Best Laid Plans. THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR is part of a series of interconnected but stand alone romance tales. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.
NOTE: Some of the events of THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR cross over and run parallel to the events of BEST LAID PLANS.
Told from dual first person perspectives (Perri and Derek) THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR follows the roommates to lovers relationship between paramedic Derek McBride, and police officer Perri Keating. Derek’s arrival in Whiskey Hollows, California is met by police officer Perri Keating when our motorcycle-riding hero prefers speed to following the rules. While his brother in law serves in the Middle East, Derek transfers to California to help his sister and her three young, rambunctious children. Needing a place to stay Derek soon discovers that his new landlord and roommate is none other than Officer Perri Keating, the sexy cop who pulled him over for driving too fast. With a fund raiser on the horizon, Perri seeks out our hero in an effort to procure the winning kiss. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Perri and Derek, and the potential fall-out as Perri struggles with a lack of direction in both her private and professional life.
Perri Keating is attracted to the look of a bad boy and Derek McBride’s tattoos and muscles fit the bill. Neither Perri nor Derek is looking for a serious relationship, but the heart wants something different when emotions get involved. Agreeing to a ‘friends with benefits’ type of relationship as they practice for the upcoming fund-raiser, our couple will develop feelings that threaten their non-relationship status, and any potential happily ever after. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense.
There are a large number of colorful and sassy secondary and supporting characters including Derek’s sister Jodie and her three children; police chief Jeff Jansen and his wife Theresa; fellow EMS paramedics Henry Granger, Hunter, and Perri’s brother Shaw Keating, and their parents Gail and Sam, as well as Perri’s friends Vanessa, and Arden and Gabe Harrison (Best Laid Plans); Vanessa and Shaw’s story line is next in NOBODY DOES IS BETTER.
THE FEEL GOOD FACTOR is a story of friendship, family, desire and love. The premise is entertaining and energetic; the characters are feisty and flirty; the romance is spicy and hot. Lauren Blakely pulls the reader into a seductive and breath taking look at a passionate romance with a happily ever after.
The Feel Good Factor by Lauren Blakely
Bad boy? Check. Tattoos galore? Check. Motorbike? Check. Dirty-talker to rival any of Blakely’s previous boys? Check and check again. There you go! I’ve just given you all the reasons to get your hands on Derek. I mean, The Feel Good Factor.
But really, when we had a brief intro to Perri and Derek’s first meeting in Best Laid Plans, I knew (because I’m psychic) that the sparks would fly off the page when it came to their story and it’s so nice to know I’m right! Derek is the quintessential bad boy with a heart of gold who has come to help his sister with her children while her husband is overseas and Perri is the cop who pulls him over for driving too fast on the aforementioned motorbike. Circumstances force them into close proximity and they realize how much they have in common: namely their lack of interest in a relationship and also their passion for helping the community – which leads them to entering what else but a kissing contest!
This book was full of deliciously dirty banter and a wicked slow-burn. The characters complemented each other in that they knew when to give and take, push and pull. Their relationship was full of all the things that make it a Lauren Blakely novel and it’s one I devoured with a smile on my face and a fan cooling me down. I am so so so very looking forward Nobody Does It Better – Shaw and Vanessa’s story!
*I voluntarily read an early copy of this book.
**Reviewed by Melinda for Joandisalovebooks Blog.
Firstly, check out the hot hot hot cover – I am not usually one to even bother looking at covers, however he is so pretty, that I can’t not look at him when he turns up on a book cover….
Oh, sorry, I got a little bit distracted there!
Ms Blakely has given us another sweet, sexy, lusty small town story.
Now, I have not yet read Best Laid Plans (so many books, so little time) however this did not make me like this book any less – and has made me move BLP up my reading list.
There is so much spark between Derek and Perri, that you just knew that things were going to be hot hot hot between then. I mean, you can’t blame the girl for lusting over the tattooed hottie!
This is a light, but passionate story – and just the break I needed from the heartbreaking stories I have been reading lately. I love that there is no stupid miscommunications between our lovelies, and no drama just for drama’s sake.
I love stories set in a small town, where it is like Cheers – everybody knows your name (and your business) – even though it is not so much fun when you live the small town life like I do hehehe.
It was great to watch Perri and Derek fight their feelings, even though everyone could see their attraction, and knew they would be great together before they even knew.
This story has left me smiling, and now I can’t wait for Shaw and Vanessa’s story.
The Feel Good Factor by Lauren Blakely has another HOT, handsome, rugged from the scruff, heart-of-gold Blakely Boy by the name of Derek. Ohh, forgot to mention the tats…lots of women love tats, especially Perri. Wow, Derek’s just…everything. Derek had his heart broken by his last girlfriend so the timing was right to move and help his sister with her 3 “rugrats”. Gotta love the tatted bad boy who loves kids and family. The kids are pretty darn cute and funny, too! As Derek comes roaring into town he is stopped by our sassy, feisty, beautiful, and very smart heroine, Perri (local cop). Perri is need of a roommate to help with bills and Derek needs a place of his own. Perri’s brother Shaw helps her get a new housemate, Derek. They decide together that they cannot pursue any type of romance while sharing a house. Plus, neither one wants a relationship at this time, yeah right! Will they give in to the attraction or be hard headed and not see what is right in front of them. For a wonderful escape into another fun world reading The Feel Good Factor will make you smile, laugh some, and just be plain happy. I love Lauren’s style of writing. Her characters are strong, funny, lovable, loving, handsome/beautiful both inside and out. I received an ARC in exchange for a honest review. 5 stars*****
4.5 stars
Lauren Blakely sure knows how to write about FEEL GOOD FACTORS! The Feel Good Factor is such a sweet rom-com that left me feeling all giddy. This dual pov is such a cute and flirty read, it took me no time to finish. I really enjoyed the push and pull between the characters, and how witty they were towards each other. It made it feel youthful ( in a good way ), and organic. I loved how deeply they were devoted to their jobs and humanity. I loved how the lead heroine had a higher role of dominance than the man when it came to their professions. The chemistry between the lead characters was off of the charts. I felt it to the tips of my toes. It’s things such as these, that sets this author in a different category than the others.
Perri is as competitive as she is serious. She has a sweetness that comes to surface, that is not expected given her personality. This knit loving red head loves her job as a police officer, and enjoys giving back in one way or another. She has a sassy side, that quite honestly shocked the crap out of me.You know what they say, ” Lady in the streets……… ”
Derek- a tattooed, motorcycle riding hottie, that can literally make your ovaries explode with just a look. His bad boy looks are just that, looks. He has an amazing personality, with this mushy heart that will melt you into a puddle. His greatest love is his family, whom he absolutely adores. He has a profession that would mentally crush most people, and yet it gives him more of a reason to be so appreciative of the little things.
When Derek makes his entrance into Lucky Falls, he puts on quite the show for the lady cop. With both characters not looking for love or a relationship, can they settle for just kissing companions for charity? Or does living in close quarters with one another push past lust ridden eyes?
* I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!
*REVIEWED FOR REVIEWS FROM THE HEART
~Liz
You will get ALL THE FEELS from this book! Lauren rocks your world again with her characters!
Meet Perri, bad ass female cop, loves doing her job, doesn’t want any distractions. Till one day she pulls over a guy on his motorcycle, Derek, and sparks fly!
Derek has just transferred to a new unit to be an EMT, and help his sister out while her husband is overseas, when he gets pulled over by Perri, he can’t believe his luck, he wants her but does he really want to break the law to see her again?
These two wove their way into my heart, Derek will make you swoon & fall in love, Perri will have you cheering her on, she’s strong willed, determined, but does have a soft side you will see! That’s all I’ll give you, I always feel you need to experience the emotions as you read along! With that said, this story gets 5++++ stars and you must read it!! Looking forward to more from Lauren!!