Review: Funny and Smart Heroine
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
Rating 4 out of 5Makenna Lewis is a smart girl with a wickedly funny sense of humor. I laughed out loud at so many of her quips and ramblings."Three dates without sex? Holy God, my cookie will have packed up and left by then.""I've never had a problem getting off before. Hell, I pride myself on it. What is wrong with me? Oh God. What if I've broken my clitoris from overuse? Misuse? Self-abuse?""That will be after I've kicked Noah in the junk and left him in a sobbing pile of douchness on the ground."See, the girl is funny. But Mac is also familiar with heartbreak and her solution of no strings attached, friends with benefits worked for her. That is, until she met Daniel Winters. And oooh baby, Daniel Winters is forever material. Good looking, successful, and charming. Mac nails it with, "Holy hell, he's got game, and it's a game I want to play!" The opening chapter had me wondering where the book was going to go and how the "broken girl swears off attachment" storyline was going to play out.And then time flashed forward four years, I was involved and couldn't look away.  Mac is a strong heroine with a self-imposed vow not to get attached to a man.  Does she drown in work and deny all men? No, Mac has three (yes, three) men available to scratch her itch and they are all cool with it. Then there's Daniel and his chemistry with Mac was palpable.  They had a really cool dynamic between each other and I was so smitten for Daniel that Mac did get a talking to (or rather my Kindle did) for the way she treated Daniel at times. She's got a kickass best friend, Kate, who gets her own story in the next book.  And I, for one, will be reading Kate's story since Mac's story was so heartwarming and scorching hot all at once.BJ Harvey writes great dialogue and the characters all had immense chemistry. The story sped along and then the epilogue sealed it for me.  I love me a good epilogue!  Overall, I have to give Temporary Bliss a 4 out of 5.  A little more angst and drama would have sealed it as a 5, but I would totally suggest that you read this one.