Review: Hot and Cold Heroine
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
So this book leaves off with everyone heartbroken. Nick is heartbroken over never getting a real chance with Emma, Seth is heartbroken that Emma broke up with him and refused to move away with him, and Emma is heartbroken because she feels guilty for hurting Seth. She also can't stop thinking about Nick. She thinks Nick didn't want her because she threw herself at him and he refused. He refused because she was drunk, and felt like she deserved more. Obviously, it's a horrible misunderstanding.Eventually they run into each other, and realize the mistakes they made. Nick admits he's leaving for his trip in a couple weeks, so Emma suggests a friends-with-benefits arrangement. This is where the book kills me. They have sex. Lots and lots of sex. I review smut for goodness sakes, I expect it, but I felt like the sex took away from the story. I feel like half the book was them having sex. Granted it was really hot sex, but still, sometimes less is more. I could be alone in that, though. I know our readers are Dirty Girls! ;)On top of that Emma kind of got on my nerves. She was so hot and cold with Nick it drove me crazy. One minute she's kissing him passionately, and the next she's giving him the cold shoulder. I understand she was trying not to get attached, but Nick was getting such mixed signals.I was happy Emma chose Nick, as much as I loved Seth from the previous book. He was even sexier in this book than he was in the last. I just felt it was missing the sub plots we had from the last book. I fell in love with all these characters, and I missed them. Her brother showed up at the end for a few sentences, and that was it.Despite all that, it was still a well-written story. Megan Keith blew me away with Finding my Way, so maybe I'm holding her to a higher standard. I have high hopes for Seth's story, which should be out soon. This might not be as good as her last book, in my personal opinion, but I would still highly recommend it.XOXO-Mallory with Dirty Girl Book Club