Review: Opposites Attract. When 1 plus 1 makes more.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
This was a book that worked better for me the second time around. I read it months ago for review and then ran out of ARC time. I didn't feel confident enough to write the review without referring back to the book.There were a lot of things to like about this story. The conflict between the uptight 'City' aka Nev Chamberlain and the apparently messed up bohemian Cath, aka Mary Catherine. Our heroine hasn't been Mary Catherine since her Dad died when she was fourteen. She calls Nev 'City' before she even meets him, seeing only his external facade.When fate brings them together, When World's Collide, they both discover so much more about each other than they expect. But they both keep some very important secrets, secrets that could tear them apart. Or bring them together. No-one is quite sure and that makes for some angsty tension.Ruthie Knox packs a lot of emotion into this story. Mary Catherine is wounded to the soul and it's going to take a bigger man than 'City' to heal her. The question is whether Nev is going to be able to step up to the plate. Can Mary Catherine be the one to make him the man he is meant to be?There is humour and a lot of sad here. It got me feeling a little weepy at times and smiling at others. The story itself isn't anything startling but the characterisations are well done and I did engage with the hero and heroine.The smex was fairly hot without being nasty and seemed to comprise a fair amount of the interactions. One detail of the heroine's past gave me a squick factor that pulled me out of my enjoyment of the book but overall all it was a great read and well written.