Review: Deliciously sweet, romantic and sexy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
“Pumped” Stilettos and Seductions Novel by Willow James (aka Sara Humphreys)Sometimes you just want a Calgon moment; you know not too much angst and something you can sink your heart into.  That’s what this book is like.  A deliciously sweet, sexy romantic read.Skylar Sole a very independent woman, working at a sex boutique and learning the ropes of business while putting herself through college.  She hopes someday to open her own Jewelry shop where she can design or help others design their jewelry.  She has no time for men or relationships and has her heart tightly guarded and locked up.  This stemming from her Dad leaving her mother. The closest thing she’s come to a relationship is the daily ogling of Mr. Wall Street who passes by her place of employment.Griffin Blaze “Mr. Wall Street” as Skylar refers to him, is everything any woman would desire.  He considers himself a stray because he was bounced from foster home to foster.  He’s managed to cut out a pretty nice career for himself but he too is gun shy about relationships.  However he has been eyeing a particular sales person at Stilettos everyday he walks by on the way to the deli.  How convenient.  Until on Sunday afternoon he works up the courage to go into the boutique wanting to me Skylar.  While she’s in the back room ranting at her boss Franco she spouts off at the mouth about not needing men and taking care of her own pleasure.  When she walks out into the store she is shocked, embarrassed and everything else when Mr. Wall Street is standing at the register.  For all intense and purposes I think he was just going to ask her out, but when hearing what she said the brilliant idea popped in his head to proposition her.  He introduced himself and she introduced herself to him.  He asked her to walk with him so they could talk and he could tell her is proposition.  They stopped at the deli for coffee and iced tea and he led her to the park.  When Skylar asked what the proposition was Griffin responded “SEX”.  After some banter back and forth he hands her his card and tells her to think about it since neither was looking for a relationship or commitment.  Skylar takes his card and he walks away.  Just like that walks away.  Well you know she texts him back and say “I’m in”.  And so the proposition begins.  After their second encounter Griffin really regrets the proposition and the statement of no relationship and no commitment. He’s falling in love with her.My absolutely favorite excerpt from the book is “I love that face you make when you’re trying to come up with a word for Scrabble when you’ve got crappy letters. I love the way you look in the morning as soon as you wake up, even with that big stupid bandage on your head. I love watching you sleep in my bed, even if I’m not in it with you.  I love that my cat wants to hang out with you instead of me. I know it’s crazy because we’ve only really known each other for a little over a week and I don’t have any idea how it happened because it’s never happened to me before.”  Skylar asks What’s never happened to you? “Love” “I Love you, Skylar”.  Okay so I totally melted.  I love this book and I so give this read and Ms. James 5* I can’t see how anyone can not like this story.