One Kiss- Lisa Fox

The Blurb

Sometimes one kiss can change everything.

New Year's Eve is supposed to be a night for celebration and new beginnings. For best friends Kat and Dean, it is a nightmare filled with disastrous dates and enraged ex-girlfriends!

Lucky for them, they've got each other to help laugh off the embarrassing, and downright inappropriate, moments. But then midnight rolls around and neither of them have anyone to kiss…

There's no doubt this is a night they will always remember.

The real question is whether it will be a night they want to forget…

The Review

I'm loving novellas at the moment.  I'm not sure if it's because my son's off school for the summer and we're out and about on trips/visiting friends etc and it's hard to find time to read for extended periods, but they're definitely suiting my lifestyle.  I've always preferred to lose myself completely in a book and read it in as few sittings as possible, so when time is limited these shorter reads still hit the spot.

One Kiss is the classic story of two friends taking the step towards coupledom.  Kat, the sassy heroine, is reluctant to get involved- she doesn't want to get hurt again so romance is the last thing on her mind- and Dean is fresh out of a relationship with a glamorous French model.  It probably isn't a good idea, but as New Year's Eve becomes New Years Day Kat and Dean don't want to be the only people on the planet with no one to kiss, their friendship takes a turn into something more serious. 

I tend to like stories of friendship blossoming into something more- it's cute when a couple have history!  Plus Dean was such a sweet character- if he was my friend, I wouldn't be standing by letting other women get with him!  Both his actions and words had my heart skipping a beat.

However, as well as being a sweet romantic will they/won't they, there were some hot scenes in there!  I remember liking the balance between sweet and sexy in Lisa Fox's A Kiss in the Dark and this was in a very similar vein- although if anything, I enjoyed this one more.

One Kiss had me hooked- a perfect way to spend a couple of hours.  This sharp, pacey novella was a joy to read.  

One Kiss is out now, published by Harper Impulse.

With thanks to the publisher who provided me with a copy of this book in return for my honest opinion.

I read this book as part of the #HIReadathon- follow the hashtag to get involved!

Lisa Fox- the Kiss Questionnaire!

Today I'm joined by author Lisa Fox who's kindly agreed to answer some of my questions.  As her new novella A Kiss in the Dark releases today, the questions are all kiss related!

A huge welcome to you, Lisa! Your HarperImpulse novellas all have a 'kiss' theme- what inspired you to use this idea?

It actually all started with One Kiss, my first book with Harper Impulse. That story takes place on New Year’s Eve, and we all know how important that midnight kiss is! I thought it would be really fun to base a series around having all the characters share their first kiss at midnight and then having that kiss be the significant turning point in their relationships. Of course, all the stories couldn’t all take place on New Year’s Eve, so I’ve had to come up with interesting ways and means for their kisses to occur at midnight. It’s been a lot of fun!

Tell us a little bit about your newest release, A Kiss in the Dark.

It features Ryan Granger, an amateur boxer and web designer, and Grace Betancourt, a cozy mystery writer. They meet when Grace hires Ryan to create her a new website. He’s bad boy, and she is a nice girl, and they are instantly attracted to one another. I think they have a lot of really good and very sweet chemistry, and I loved writing about them.                                               

Do you remember your first kiss?

Of course! Doesn’t everyone? It was at my junior high’s spring dance, in a darkened corner of the very romantic cray paper filled gymnasium. He was a boy I had known since the fifth grade, and I wish I could say it was love, but it was really more like an exploratory mission—for science! Lol! Still, it was nice, and it will always be a wonderful memory.

What's our favourite kiss in literary/film history?

My favorite kiss isn’t even a proper kiss. It’s the almost-kiss of Mulder and Scully in the first X-Files movie. God, I loved them so much! The X-Files was my very first real fangirling experience. When they almost kissed, I almost died!

What's your favourite song with the word 'kiss' in the title?

I’m not all that into ‘romantic’ music, so I’d have to go with Kiss Me Deadly by Lita Ford. Lol!

And finally, kisses or cuddles?

I’m not overly fond of the word ‘or.’ I much prefer AND.
 

Thank you so much for having me over, Kate!

Many thanks to Lisa Fox for joining me. A Kiss in the Dark is available to buy in ebook format right now, published by HarperImpulse.

My review of A Kiss in the Dark will be published here on Books with Bunny next week!