Review: ** BETH'S 3.5 STAR REVIEW **
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
**Complimentary copy provided by author for an honest review**Against the Cage is an enjoyable read, a bit of a romantic comedy. Chrissy’s day has started out with bad luck and only gets worse when she has to go back to her home town, the one she took off from over 11 years ago, to bail out her brother. But with the bad luck of being pulled over for speeding, she accidentally punches the office in the groin, only to find out the office is actually her brother’s best friend and her childhood crush, Jack Daniels. Now many years later, Chrissy is not the same Chrissy he once knew and he plans on exploring that.Against the Cage is written in the third POV and I find it does take me a bit to connect with books written in third, I found that with this book, I just never really connected with the story or the characters. The characters and the storyline were good, but was left wanting and expecting more from it and from them. It always seems like it was missing that little bit extra, that it just didn’t get to that next level. I really did like Jack’s character, he was a hot alpha MMA fighter but found Chrissy’s character to be a little all over the place, strong, stubborn and independent women one minute and then the next a whiny pushover.The book had a good storyline but found parts to be very slow and drug out, having filler that really didn’t feel like it added anything to the story. I also got annoyed with their names and that they were all over the place with what they currently were calling the other. Chrissy starts out calling him Jack, but then calls him Jack Daniels to annoy him but then later in the story is calling him Daniels. Jack was completely all over the place calling her Chris, but then switching to Chrissy as that is what she wants to be called but he keeps going back and forth using both, sometime in the same paragraph. Maybe it’s just me being OCD or just picky but I got to a point where I just wanted to scream “Pick a name will you!”Overall, it was an enjoyable read. I liked the banter between Chrissy and Jack, it had me cracking up a few times. It also had a good sweet romantic storyline with a good level of drama added in.