Review: Really, really liked it. ALMOST loved it.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2012
This was my first book by this author but it will NOT be my last. I love her "voice". I was looking for specific items when I started this book and found all of them. Yet there is a reason this book is not a five star for me.Jealous? Check.Possessive? Check.No cheating. Check.Heroine likeable? Check.Chemistry? Check.So Raith has wanted our heroine Willow, who he calls DeVane since he saw her two years ago. But she's 10 years younger and socially more advanced then him. Her family has money and she is a junior partner in a law firm so she does well. He is bitter about his divorce because he has to pay alimony to his cheating ex-wife.Everytime they see each other he tries to get under her skin because he wants her BAD and figures she wouldn't look at a schmuck like him. She knows he purposely tries to get arise out her her, but she doesn't know why. So she gets attacked by a client in front of him, and she demands that if he wants her to learn self defense, he better teach it to her.Therefore he goes over to her place teach her and what I ADORED about this book was you got his thoughts. It was nice, he was nervous, he was worried and he was jealous. Everytime he saw her with a man, he saw red. Everytime he heard about some man she had dated, his "murder list" would grow. And I liked Willow even though we got more POV from Raith she was great.Why not a five? Raith is my definition of a punk-hero. He knows he wants her but he's so busy being scared that she doesn't want him, that he's a jerk. Example and this is a BIG spoiler so do not read if you want to miss:******So they've been having protected sex and so much of it that he teases she is going to make him grow broke on buying condoms. So Willow suprises him by being him a box. First one they use breaks. He panics because he LIKES the thought of her being pregnant so he accuses her of trying to trap him and how can you trust something that bleeds for seven days and doesn't die. Holy crap. That was 64% in, but goodness.Also when she has a stalker, but when she tells him the man was in her house and she saw him following this he acccuses her of trying to get his attention. If Kage hadn't done such a good job getting me to LIKE him prior to this he would have been inducted into my Hall of Romance Hero Jerks.But I liked the book and truly ENJOYED reading it, therefore you should NOT miss it.