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5 stars for Pamela Clare's FIRST STRIKE and 4.5 stars for STRIKING DISTANCE

11/6/2013

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I'm back! Life has finally settled down from my London-to-Hawaii move this summer, and I'm excited to re-launch this blog with a book review on not one but two titles from one of my auto-buy authors, Pamela Clare. For a chance to win a copy of First Strike or Striking Distance, leave a comment about which book cover has you the most excited to turn the page. The winner may choose which of the two books to receive as their giveaway prize.
book cover for First Strike by Pamela Clare. A tan-skinned man and pale-skinned woman sit embracing on a bed wearing very little clothing
book cover for Striking Distance by Pamela Clare. A man wearing black combat pants and boots and a torn white shirt is crouched low, a gun in each hand, before a backdrop of a fiery explosion
Author Pamela Clare has been so clever with her marketing that I found it impossible to review one of these books without the other. First Strike is the erotic romance prequel novella (17k words) that she self-published on October 18th as an ebook companion to Striking Distance, book 6 in her best-selling romantic suspense I-Team series, published by Berkley (Penguin Group) on November 5th in MMP and ebook formats. How clever is that?

I’ll leave the finer points of the story descriptions to the blurbs at the end of this review, but here’s the gist of how these books fit together:

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