Lei'd with Cupcakes Kindle Edition

I read this book and the prior one back to back. They are short reads. A Little over a couple of hours each. If you are following the series (and it should be read in order) you already know Lila, Cade and the gang. This book finds the couple and her kids going to Hawaii to meet his family and have some vacation fun. But of course trouble finds Lila and they end up working a case involving Cade's younger sister. This book was the best yet. The author has a really good sense of how to write comedy. I had moments of true laugh out loud. The romance aspect was much more fully developed than in the previous books so I was happy about that. I think the detective work aspect still needs to be more detailed and finely developed but overall a great, sexy, funny read with a supercool heroine and an adorable alpha-male hero. I'm really invested in these characters now so I hope we get another installment soon.

Oh my goodness, it was so much fun to back with the gang again. I think I want to be a member of this group. I may not like martini's but I love a mean Mai Tai and do not get me going on cupcakes....

This book is set in one of the most beautiful place Hawaii. Cade and Lila head there for his sisters high school graduation and his yearly trip back "home". Well you don't think there would not be cupcakes do you??? And naked people, including Cade's parents catching Cade and Lila in the ocean. There is even a random dildo that shows up.

OH yea there is a case for Lila and Cade to work on that hits a little too close to home.

I can not wait for the next installment and I hope it may include a wedding or two in addition to a pig roast.

Best if you read the first two books and in order helps...

You will not be sorry to buy these.

This book was well written and edited. I loved the storyline and these characters have really grown over the course of this series. This author was a really great find. I loved the audio option for the first two.

Favorite Quotes:

Being the mother of eleven, almost twelve, year-old twins, you’d think I’d be used to them doing things in unison like that, but no … That s#@ is freaky every time.

I could feel all eyes on me as I retched all over the floor, and I had to admit, the red velvet cupcake no longer seemed like a good idea. It looked like I had internal bleeding. I was assuming that, coupled with my nausea and the perception that I’d peed myself earlier, did not make me the best candidate for the auction block. ‘She ain’t going nowhere,’ Yusuf replied. ‘And with the merchandise we’re already selling, we’ll probably have to pay one of the clients to take her off our hands.’

See, I knew even then that the kind of woman I wanted to marry would be wild like the sea, with a calm at her center, a generous spirit, and the kind of beauty that makes people stop and look. Not just one the outside, but because they know what’s underneath the surface is just as magical as what’s on the outside.

No matter what happens, I’ll never let you go, and I’ll never give you reason to want to let me go.

I guess I haven’t really traveled that much in my life, because I wasn’t prepared for how happy I was to be home. Seriously. I wanted to hug my front door and kiss my porch, that’s how excited I was to see my little house again.

My Review:

Lila and Cade take their adventures on a family visit to Hawaii and the Big Island may never be the same. Lila’s baby making hips were a hit with Cade’s mom who appears to be suffering a severe case of grandma fever. However, Lila wants to make a good impression and declares his parents’ home will be a No Sex Zone during their stay, which only leads to a build up of frustration and culminates in unbridled sexcapades. And, of course, snoopy Lila finds trouble - even when she’s not looking for it - and stumbles into a dangerous hive of criminal activity. I adore Ms. Lopez’s irreverent and witty humor, vivid descriptions, comical inner musings, and the peculiar predicaments the saucy Lila unearths and injects herself into. The writing and storyline were highly amusing, engaging, and intriguing. I am eager for the next installment to see what the intrepid Lila flings herself into next.

~~~~THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS~~~~

Hawaii, a hot boyfriend, and a vacation all rolled into one. What can go grow wrong with that? It's paradise. You walk out of the backdoors and not only do you hear the ocean but the beach is right there. Perfection, right?

Not all is perfect, and neither is this vacation.

Lila, Cade, and Lila's twins are heading to the big island to visit with Cade's family. His family welcomes Lila and her twins immediately. But despite where she is sleeping she has sworn off having sex in his parents house. But finding ways to get around that rule leads to a hysterical confrontation with his parents, and the second time leads to coral burns.

But with Lila being a PI she gets the itch, and a feeling that something bad is going to happen and that, Cade's sister may be involved.

But how do you enjoy your vacation, spend time with your kids, your hot boyfriend, and getting close to his family, and still go on a discovery mission.

You don't when your boyfriend figures you out and makes you tell him. When he fears his sister may be involved he enlists his childhood friends for answers and help.

Lila can't wait for anything g to happen. That's not in her blood. So she goes on out to break the case wide open. The only thing that stops her is getting caught in the middle of everything.

She also finds herself on a boat, the one thing she has always hated.

Once again Ms. Lopez has written another fantastic book in this series. I laughed, I cried, and I bit my nails till the very last page.

All the characters you loved from the previous two books, don't worry they all make an appearance.

I can't wait for more in the series.