Review: Loved it
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2011
I really loved this hero Gabe. He is so many things I love in a hero. He's that tough bad boy, the one who eats you up with his intense eyes and makes you shiver in the most delicious ways. He's gruff, short-tempered, even rude and abrupt. And I know I should probably get some therapy for this but I so love a surly, rough around the edges man.I loved Gabe as a blue-collar tow truck driver, but when we find out he's a cop, there's just something about a hardened, disillusioned cop in need of some tender loving care. Gabe is the wounded hero type, the kind of man you want to help fix. Also, he has this white knight complex; no matter how much like a jerk he may appear, he'll still come to your rescue, which is what he does for Lily.I really liked Lily. She comes across as sincere, innocent, self-conscious and a little unsure. Lily is a nice girl, a damsel in distress, but she's also more than that. She's the one capable of rescuing Gabe from all the darkness in his life and job, the one woman who makes him feel alive and clean and whole. When Gabe tells Lily "I feel good when I'm with you," I melted.The sexual chemistry between them is so hot. In the first scene, the things this bad boy says to her just turned me on. Gabe is to the point and not very smooth in the sack; he's too needy and raw to be anything other than intense, rough and demanding. But did this make for some unbelievable sex. And when he 'frisks' her up against the door? Too hot. As Lily soothes all this masculine rawness, Gabe begins to let more feelings out. My favorite line is, "You do it for me, Lily, like no woman ever has." I can't resist when a bad boy realizes he's met the One.When Gabe confesses how he feels, that is one of the sweetest and most touching scenes I've read; from the flowers to the way he tells Lily not with actual words but with a gift, the man made my heart ache for him. I loved seeing how this strong but vulnerable alpha male admits his feelings. Gabe, the ever cynical cop, thought he was being played, that Lily was too good to be true, but Lily turned out to be just what he needed.