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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elle Brookes grew up in Los Angeles, California, but lived in Jamaica for three years when she was a Peace Corps Volunteer. She moved to San Francisco and studied at the California Culinary Academy, and went on to become a private chef to a well-known L.A. based television production company.
From an early age Elle was a voracious reader of adventure stories and from elementary school through high school, she started writing her own stories of places foreign and exotic. She studied Art History and continued writing in college, focusing on short stories.
A dedicated and passionate traveler, Elle has explored river caves in Jamaica and Costa Rica, hiked glaciers in New Zealand and Iceland, and done dogsledding in Greenland and Iceland. She's danced a fa'a Samoan haka and slept in a fale on the island of Savai'i in Samoa, hiked in the northern mountains of Thailand along the border with Myanmar in the Golden Triangle, and in Haiti, she witnessed a white goat ceremonially sacrificed to Erzuli Freda by a powerful Houngan. For a time she did Performance Driving in Southern California, and has years of study and experience dedicated to fencing, theatrical combat, archery, and horsemanship.
Elle currently lives in the central highlands of Costa Rica with her dog Pixie, and her hedgehog, Quiller.
Reviewed by Faridah Nassozi for Readers' Favorite
In Lust. Mechanics. Mini Cooper, by Elle Brookes, Lesley Meryn lived a very secluded life, with just the characters in her books for company. Save for her long time best friend, major movie star Jax, she was not really into socialising with anyone, especially after the death of her dear aunt. She had had her fair share of failed attempts at relationships, thanks to Jax's endless efforts to set her up, until she decided to just give up. When her lawyer told her she needed to travel to London and personally sort out matters pertaining to her aunt's estate, she could not imagine what kind of business her aunt left behind that needed her personal attention. The visit to London brought back bittersweet memories of her early years, but it also had more surprises. Lesley needed to locate an old family property and sort out an upcoming lease renewal, but nothing prepared her for what she found on the property, and most especially for the surge of intense and confusing emotions towards the man currently occupying the property.
Lust. Mechanics. Mini Cooper by Elle Brookes is very thrilling romance story that had me hooked after reading just part of the prologue. It is the kind of story that has you reading nonstop because you cannot wait to find out the answers to the several intriguing questions that keep coming up along the way. The plot of the story has a thrilling romance theme yet gives so much more than that; suspense, intrigue, thrills, drama and sci-fi. Elle Brookes brought this captivating story to life with a flawless and very fitting writing style and characters that a reader could easily connect with and understand their emotions throughout the novel. I especially loved how Elle Brookes portrayed Lesley's character and the character development through flashbacks to her earlier life, which helped me understand her even better. I had an absolute reading thrill with this page-turner.
