Review: Nestled in a Book's Review of Unfixable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
4.5 Stars[“It’s inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come and find me.”]I wish I could say I couldn’t put this book down, but instead, and much to my dismay, I was so busy this time that I could barely find the time to pick it up! It was like a specially-designed torture for book junkies.  Not that giving this book 4.5 stars is any sort of insult, because it was really good, but I wonder if I’d been able to read it in no more than a couple of days if it would have been a 5 star for me.  You know what I mean?  When you go a while (ahem… days) between reads you have time to come out of the book haze.  When you read a book mostly straight through, you stay immersed in the character’s world.  You feel everything more.  Is this even making sense?In any event, I loved this book!  I don’t know if this is a new trend or if I’ve just happened to read a lot of them lately, but I’m loving books that are set in exotic locations.  Lately I’ve read about characters who travel to France, Amsterdam, Ghana, and now Ireland!  It’s so much fun to get to experience the beauty of a foreign place through the main character’s eyes.Willa is a photographer who has recently broken up with her first love, but lucky for her and thanks to her talent, she’s just won a competition that sends her to Ireland for a month.  It’s just what she needs to clear her mind and refocus.  But her trip is interesting from the time she lands in Ireland when she meets the surly man waiting to pick her up from the airport.Shane Claymore races cars.  Not like for fun.  For real.  It’s what he loves, it’s what he’s meant to do.  What he’s not meant to be doing is running his family’s Inn/Bar and retrieving spoiled, privileged Americans from the airport.  Willa and Shane get off to a rough start.  They’re both prickly, surly, closed off and stubborn.  They’re both immediately attracted to each other but neither of them is particularly happy about that.  Watching the sexual tension grow between them is exhilarating and exciting.[“Why?” he growls into my wet hair, bracing one hand on the brick wall, keeping his other thick forearm wrapped around my middle.  “Why can’t you stay put?  Every time it gets uncomfortable, I have to chase you down…. Here’s what I want to say, girl.  Having to chase you only make me want to pin you down.”]The two of them fight their attraction for a long time.  Willa’s stay is temporary and rushing into something else that she will just have to walk away from is not ideal.  But some things are easier said than done.[“What are you waiting for?  Permission?”“Yes,” he groans, clutching my hips.“You have it.”]Just as Willa’s trip is winding to an end, Shane is offered the opportunity to live his dream again.  Starting tomorrow.[“That’s right, girl.  Fight me.  Show me you give a damn.”“Why don’t you tell me what the hell you want from me?” I shout up at him.“What I want?” He’s shouting back.  “I want one word from you, one word that tells me I’m not crazy.  That I’m not imagining what it feels like when we’re standing in the same room together.  God, the thought of getting on a plane without you, babe… I can’t breathe for thinking about it.”]Unfixable was a fantastic, enjoyable, smoldering book.  I loved every bit of it.  Trust me, you’re going to want to meet Shane Claymore!