Review: Nice to see Rusty and Jenna front and center.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
Wild Child is a stand-alone novella that fits between the storylines of The Wild Ones and Some Like It Wild. Rusty and Jenna hit it off in The Wild Ones, but most of what happens between them is off-camera, so to speak. Here, we get a little more about their story while the friends are all prepping for Trick and Cami’s wedding.Jenna has returned home to transition between college and her first job, especially as she doesn’t know where she will be working. But the one thing she knows is she doesn’t want to stay in Greenfield for long. Rusty knows Jenna isn’t interested in sticking around long, but figures there is no reason they can’t have fun while they can. What niether planned on was developing deeper feelings for the other.Jenna is generally fun and carefree, so it was interesting to see her handle situations where she wasn’t her usual confident self. The same with Rusty. They are both such fun-loving characters that they can’t help but question everything when things get serious.I loved the forced celibacy the girls (Cami and Jenna) set up before the wedding which caused quite a bit of tension within both couples. The situations the guys and girls both orchestrate to challenge each other had me grinning with each attempt to add to the sexual tension.This was a classic case of lack of communication messing up a perfectly good relationship. It’s a quick read, with a lot of interaction from Trick and Cami. Because I read Some Like It Hot before Wild Child, this filled in some gaps in the overall series storyline, but not having that info didn’t leave me confused. Now that I’ve read the whole story, I can understand some of the more subtle references that I missed.Thanks to M. Leighton and PENGUIN GROUP Berkley, NAL / Signet Romance, DAW for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.