Review: Willing Victim
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2014
This is another example of Cara McKenna taking ordinary people living ordinary lives and giving their story words that make them appear extraordinary. Willing Victim is one of the hottest books I’ve ever read. Flynn’s dirty mind and dirty mouth are enough to get any gal’s panties in a bunch, but not to worry. He can take care of that for you.This book was interesting from the get-go, and I love that it started out with the heroine pursuing the hero.I loved both of the main characters in this book. They were carried emotional scars from their pasts, but they didn’t wallow in them.Laurel was sort of just letting life pass her by until she met Flynn. She wasn’t discontent–just indifferent to life. Flynn came along at the perfect time and was just what she needed to help her start living again. I love that she wasn’t afraid to put it out there for him.Flynn is one of my most favorite heroes of all time. He was such a simple man–fighting, working, and sex was all he needed, and the man was content with his life. I loved his concern for the people around him and his candor with Laurel. There was nothing complicated about him. What you see was what you got with Flynn.The sex scenes in this book were among some of the steamiest I’ve read, and the dirty talk is enough to make the reader’s heart do some pitter-pattering.I loved the pacing of this book. Everything just developed so naturally, and Flynn and Laurel were perfect together.Something I really love about Cara McKenna’s books is that it seems to start out with the man showing the woman what it is he likes or wants, but he inevitably ends up learning something from her. I love that her male characters so open and receptive. Also, her books don’t end with everything being presented to the reader with a big red bow around it. I feel like she brings her stories to a place where the characters have learned a lot about themselves during the portion of their life’s journey that we get to see, but there’s still a long road ahead of them. It’s almost like she’s trusting the reader to take the character’s where they need to go from there. I love that!If you’re in the mood for a quick, steamy read from an author that can deliver depth despite the smaller word count, this book is for you!