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    Sworn to Love
    Sworn to Love
    Sworn to Love
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    Sworn to Love

    By Karin Tabke

    4/5

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    From national bestselling author Karin Tabke comes the fifth installment in her sizzling Hot Cops series, featuring a mind-blowingly sexy cop who meets his match.

    Sometimes going after the bad guy you find the good girl…

    When DEA agent Mateo Juarez is given the mission to infiltrate the Dumas drug cartel’s compound and erase the entire organization, he doesn’t count on falling for Sophia, the head honcho’s daughter…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Star
    Release dateMar 3, 2015
    ISBN9781439127353
    Sworn to Love
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    Karin Tabke

    Karin Tabke is a bestselling author of historical and contemporary romance, the CEO of her own business, and wife of a veteran police officer. Her books include the first three novels in the Blood Sword Legacy series: Master of Surrender, Master of Torment, and Master of Craving; the contemporary romance Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa; and three erotic novels, Good Girl Gone Bad, Skin, and Jaded. For more information visit her website at KarinTabke.com.

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    • 4/5
      ****Full Review****

      3.5 stars

      I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

      Sophia lives a very sheltered life as she comes from a very old world “we are descendants from royalty" father. As the last surviving heir, her father has become very controlling and demanding she marry the man of his choice. Sophia knows her father is a very powerful man but has no idea he is the head of a drug cartel that is producing a dangerous drug called "O". Wanting one night of freedom before she is forced to marry a man of her father's choice, she goes to a nightclub where she meets Mateo Juarez. Mateo is really Mat, a DEA agent but currently undercover as the "Widowmaker” and working to take down Sophia's father and stop production of the O drug. When these two meet, lust and desire explode between them and suddenly Mat's mission has now become protecting Sophia. It's all drugs, sex, and danger that will keep your heart racing in more ways than one.
       
      This is fifth in a series and I don't know if it continues where book four left off or just the nature of the way this story starts but I did feel like I was playing catch up for the first few chapters; very thrust into the action without knowing or having connection to the characters. After a couple chapters with the author doing a credible job of establishing Mat and his mission I was able to settle in and get into the story. The high drama and outlandishness of powerful drug cartels, a drug that turns men into rapey savage beasts, pure virgin daughter, forced marriage, undercover identity, false severed head, and blood feuds definitely kept me interested but gave me the feeling of an over the top Spanish soap opera. The story is unrealistic but entertaining and the real reason you're going to read this story is for the sex scenes. They are scorching and abundant, sex scenes are the main course here with the drug cartel and undercover business side dishes.
       
      Sophia was kind of an unbalanced character with her wavering between innocently naïve about her father's business, stupidly blind, meek, and finally to fighting strong. Sophia is also, weirdly, a school teacher that seems to have no purpose in the story except for trying to further perpetuate her sweetness but ends up adding nothing to the story and character. Mat was a sexy dangerous protective dominate male but his hidden past pain wasn't discussed until the very end, so he didn't come off as complete a character as he could have been. Together though, these two really work and wonderfully them setting the sheets on fire is the main focus of the story. These two have some delightfully heated teasing and full on sex scenes, their bedroom antics are the real star of the show. The scenes aren't lengthy but as I said abundant and definitely get their point across.
       
      The ending and the wrap up to the suspense arc was greatly rushed, Mat completes his mission but I couldn't help feeling there were some unanswered questions or they were poorly answered. I'm also not sure I completely buy into Sophia and Mat's happily ever after outside of the bedroom. This book is more to be read for people looking for a little suspense action with their sexual exploits. Sworn to Love is a brief, brisk, and well written story that if you come for the sexy times you will not leave disappointed.
    • 4/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: One hot dark and dangerous DEA Agent and a cartel princess!Opening Sentence: “After two years building his rep as the “Widow Maker,” an independent contractor who killed not only for the government but for the everyday working stiff when justice failed to deliver, undercover DEA Agent Matthew Kane, known on the street as Mateo Juraez, had his next target in sight.”The Review:Let me start off by saying that I have not read any of the other books in the series. Having said that, this series is definitely one you can jump into without having to read the others. That of course is super good for me as a reviewer! Okay, if it had been one that you had to read the others, I am the type of reader that would stop and go read the previous books first. Now to get down to business, Sworn to Love focuses on hot cop Matthew Kane, aka Mateo Juarez. Mateo’s first order of business is to take down Javier Bertram. We find out rather quickly that he fakes Javier’s death and takes him into custody despite a desperate need for revenge. Javier murdered Mateo’s brother in cold blood, and he is also engaged to Sophia Dumas, the cartel princess!Now we have the beginning set up. Mateo gets to work taking Javier’s place and initiates a meeting between him and Sophia. There is an instant connection between the two of them. From there this is a fairly typical romance novel, except this one has murder attempts, dangerous drugs and one bad ass girl saving the boy! I really did enjoy this book, it was super easy to read and a quick one too, almost feeling more like a novella instead of a book.It was action packed and fast paced, with plenty of sexy time thrown in there. Despite its length, I really didn’t feel like there was more sex than action. There really was a good balance of plot, danger and sex. I am intrigued enough to go back and read the first four novels! Unlike other cop novels or police procedurals this book wasn’t bogged down in endless detail and descriptions, the author was not trying to make a legit case. I do enjoy those books too, but sometimes if the author isn’t careful you can lose a reader if it gets too boring. Karen Tabke clearly doesn’t have that problem, she did throw in evidence and details, but she didn’t get overwhelming with them.I also enjoyed Sophia, and by that I mean as a character in a novel this short you would almost think that you can’t quite connect with the character. She rocks though, you really get to know her, the love she has for her father, the disgust she has for his business. The sense of hopelessness she has with her life, her fears and even the hopes she has for the future if she could have a future. Sophia really made the book enjoyable. I know we are supposed to be hung up on the hot cop, but Sophia was the real star of this book. So get out there and check it out!Notable Scenes:“Mateo was a firm believer in sticking close to the same lie with everyone so when they compared notes there were no discrepancies.”“He was blindfolded and tied at the wrists and ankles to a chair.”FTC Advisory: Simon & Schuster provided me with a copy of Sworn to Love. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.

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