Win The Brass Bed (Jewel Heiss #1) Authored By Jennifer Stevenson Presented In Ebook

wanted very badly to enjoy this, I liked the premise quite a bit, but I just didn't like any of the characters, OMG, I never laughed so hard, and Randy is PRECIOUS! Poor Jewel Heiss, is caught up between her best friend and her boss who wanted her to trail his wife as he thought she was having an affair.
Jewel is loyal to Nina and doesn't want her to end up divorced so see agrees to talk to her "sex therapist", Then the fun really begins! Chicago with smoking pigeons and PINK smog! Confusing writing style but good plot


This book was all over the place and the characters were borderline two dimensional.
The storyline was good and entertaining however, it was a mission the figure out what was happening/had happened in many places, The writing style improved nearer the end of the book so that combined with the entertaining storyline has encouraged me to consider reading the next book,
The friends of jewel were positively toxic with very few redeeming characteristics, She herself admits that she only stays with them so she is no longer alone which is a definite negative in the story, The characters need more clarity and substance,
This is not a light hearted easy read however, there is some promise as the author develops, Sorry, this just wasn't for me, I couldn't bring myself to like the characters or the plot, I liked the concept but that's it, This book was a huge let down, I had heard such good things about it, but it totally fell flat, I struggled to get through it, It was tedious, boring, lame and just downright hard to get into at all, The characters were flat and poorly written, The plot was frenzied, not very well organized and it was boring, Sorry to say I am not going to be reading the sequel if it is as bad as this book, I couldn't even force myself to finish it, I got/of the way and found it too horrid to finish, Sorry Jennifer Stevenson, but it wasn't working for me, I just discovered Jennifer Stevenson's wacky, wonderful series, and plan to read more in it soon, As others have said, her stories are original, amusing, and pretty darn hot! There are nods to romantic fantasy, but the tone here is sly and subversive, while staying light and fastpaced.
Her heroine Jewell is definitely her own boss, though susceptible to the charms of men, and she manages to call the shots with two hunky guys, one of whom literally sweeps her off her feet into fantastic sensual journeys.
I've never before read a sex scene in which the guy manifests as a Zeuslike swan ravishing Leda, Try it, you'll like it! Seriously, one of the worst books I've ever read, If I had the main character's job, or her friends, or her boss, or her life I'd probably throw myself into Lake Michigan, I can't figure out why, at no point in the story, she doesn't just throw her hands up in digust in walk away, There is absolutely no reason for her to keep putting up with the nonsense that is tossed at her, yet she keeps on trucking, Worse, this is supposedly a steamy romance novel, yet the sex scenes are completely unsexy, the "romance" consists of her staring at a guy's butt and the "other man" the one she is supposed to go for is a condescending jerk.
I have never met a more dislikable group of characters, I got this book for free from Amazon's Kindle page, so I can't complain about getting my money back, I desperately want my time back though, This is a funny, magicfilled, erotic, sexthemed story about a brass bed and its occupant, Jewel, Chicago investigator of "hinky stuff" and fan of risky sex, is referred to Nina's "sex therapist" for treatment of her proclivities, Jewel suspects a con after Nina confides she's visiting himtimes a week atper visit, Jewel gets a real surprise when she tries to bust the fraud, It's certainly not the kind of fraud she suspected, it may not even be a fraud, Randy, a bewitched succubus and Clay, a professional huckster, seem determined to upset her life, Meanwhile Nina's husband Ed, Jewel's boss, is after her to solve several "hinky" cases, After many comical misunderstandings, "hinkey" cases get solved, marital crisis is averted, Jewel finally gets her libido satisfied and in addition, a partner or perhaps two,.ish, rounding up toI guess because I did finish it pretty quickly, I had this as a pdf from somewhere and just randomly started reading,

This is a quirky book with decent character development, at least of the main character, There's lots of sex in it but its not erotic/explicit, Quirky really is the best way to describe the world, There's weird magic stuff going on in Chicago, its never really explained why or how no worldbuilding to speak of really its just there and the government is trying to "cover it up" despite the fact that everyone can see it.
The plot is fast paced, I didn't like the end very much as I felt like things are left a bit unresolved but maybe there's a sequel, Which I probably won't go out of my way to find,
Im back and forth betweenandstars, On the one hand, this was just so freaking weird and disjointed it jumped all over the place, theres no back story to why things are magicish, and there is just random stuff like the phrase “da mayor” thrown in as if its a figure of speech and then sometimes characters talk with that accent, and sometimes they dont.
It felt like a writer wishing she was Jenny Crusie, with the hot con men and the bigger girl heroine who cant help but want to help him out even though hes cramping her own con except with random magic tossed in.
The smoking pigeons were funny and I feel like this could have been really good if it werent such a mess, And there is some pretty awful slut shaming and one sentence about a teenage

daughter that just threw me off so badly like, you could think that, . . but should you write it You definitely shouldnt publish it, . . This book needs three or four more drafts and a really good editor and then Id be all about it, I tried, I really did, but the writing is horrible, the plot has potential, but the banter was crap, and the story was boring,
I got aboutpages in and couldn't finish, came backmonths later, and I couldn't get farther than page, It was just too hard to read a book I couldn't find it in myself to care about, I'm really glad I didn't buy the book, that is was a free download, I bought this ebook because it was listed as being a time travel book, but it really wasn't, Jewel, the main character is an officer in the fraud division in Chicago, But this Chicago is a place where a lot of "hinky" stuff happens, Some of the oddities are a little strange, and it took me a bit to feel comfortable accepting what was going on, Jewel is also an oversexed, single gal with lots of issues, There were some fun scenes and some really raunchy ones, If you are easily offended, I don't recommend reading it, but if you want a wild romp in a bizarre world, give it a try, I love how different this book was to anything I've ever read before, Not just the story itself but even the writing was something else entirely, I admit, it took a little bit to get used to but once I understood the flow of things this book got really good, This one has a mix of comedy, sexy times amp a whole lotta "hinky" stuff happening, Well worth the read for sure! Told in first person, our narrator refuses to even think about what hinky means to clarify the situation, so this book gets a bit confusing as you try to figure out what's going on.
Also, hinky As an official term Really

Then there's her boss having her tail his wife/her best friend, Who would honestly expect to get an honest report while sending his wife's best friend to spy on her

The book was just hard to follow and illogical.
I just have better things to read, In my defense, I was offered this novel during a time when I was accepting everything offered for free on Amazon, I was so indiscriminate that my Kindle is still so full that I have to eliminate stuff whenever I want to download anything, My memory is full and I resolved to fix my situation by reading as much as possible and then removing from my library, Eventually I got my second Kindle and of course I cluttered that one too, It's a sickness I tell you, The Hinky Brass Bed is supposed to be a sexy read, but it really isn't IMHO, There's supposed to be a sexdemon attached to a bed, There's condescending male characters, an oppressive overlydemanding boss, silly, ribald humor that I'm OK with when it's funny, but here it's not that's supposed to be about the fun of sex.
I don't want to give this a one star because clearly Stevenson was trying to write something unique and witty, It just wasn't something that I liked, uhm kinda weird, there didnt seem to be a plot until almost the end, The book went into details on the characters and story line with no introduction first so it was confusing, I don't know who I ticked off, but this was another book I could not finish, I picked it up THREE different times trying to get into it and finally just gave up, The author's writing is first person which normally doesn't bother me, Whenever I tried to read this book, I just ended up frustrated, confused, and lost, The plot seemed to jump all over the place and I didn't much like the hero or the heroine, Hopefully, somebody else managed to finish this and like it, but it certainly wasn't me!! The Brass Bed is the first book in the Jewel Heiss series by American author, Jennifer Stevenson.
Jewel Heiss is an agent for Chicagos Department of Consumer Services, Her boss, Ed Neccio has her permanently assigned to cases involving magic: the Mayor gets upset when magic hits the news, But on the side, Ed wants her to find out what his wife, and her best friend Nina, is up to: hes convinced this “therapist” she is seeing is her lover on the side.
Clay Dawes runs a sex therapy service involving a brass bed, Jewel is sure its a scam, so she goes undercover as a client, and is surprised to have the best sex of her life, alone, in said bed.
This brass bed, it seems, has been haunted for two hundred years by a cursed English Lord,

The alternate reality where apparently anger causes a pink mist, genies are addicted to Drambuie and pigeons steal cigarettes to smoke, is never really explained, and the reader may well feel like they have been thrown into the middle of a sitcom.
But there is plenty of humour and the scenes with Randy are good, although the story drags a bit in the middle, An excerpt of the second book, The Velvet Chair, is included,
This was funny. It is not dirty/erotic, so if that is what you are looking for, move on, However, there is sex.
My biggest issue was the feeling that it was a later book in the series, since it felt like we should have known what "hinky" meant in the context of the book.
It is mostly explained toward the end, but really should be earlier in my opinion,
My favorite quote is from the end,from a prayer, Gathering for food is quite the expression of love, as you will see, 'Lord, they say you cant pick your family, but you can pick your friends, As we sit at a table loaded with your delicioussmelling bounty, lets remember that everyone comes to your table a beggar, a stranger asking for a handout, Everyone is a lost soul with no past and no future, if not for your grace, '
I will have the rest of the series on my list, The story concept was solid a government official that investigates "magic" sounds interesting, I could not get into the story, I didn't understand why there was such a change in the city that government officials were denying the existence of magic, This could've been an alternate time line or universe but it was not stated, I was confused by the main characters sexual prowess but naivete of everything else, The writing is solid but I could not follow the storyline, I know others have enjoyed it but I had so many questions from the beginning to end, Jennifer Stevenson's world is quirky and fun, and like no other author's, This is light reading that you can get through in a few short hours, The story develops by making assumptions about what the reader knows and then gives background in a less traditional way, so don't expect to get all the information in ABC order.
That is not Jennifer's style, But you will get the whole story eventually!

I love Jennifer's sex scenes! They always leave you with the impression of great sex, but without any of the excruciating details that can make more explicit sex scenes boring.
They are a swirling mass of feelings and sensations and magic, This is one of her strengths as an author, in my opinion,

I've read the whole Brass Bed series, and I enjoyed them all as much as the first one, I've also read several other books by Jennifer and I feel that she is getting better and better, This is a good author to follow, .