Review: Martini Times Romance Book Review: About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
Review from MartiniTimes.comI'm very grateful to have gotten this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Ruthie Knox hits it out of the park with the smart, sexy, and amazing emotional ride in her contemporary book, About Last Night.The humorous wit and banter in this story just slayed me. I devoured this book quickly, unable and unwilling to set it down unless I absolutely had to. The characters she created were so real and the steamy sex scenes were palpable.This was truly romantic, and even I fell a little bit in love with Neville Chamberlain, City as Cath calls him in her head each time she sees him at the train stop in London. It's what she does-people watch and give them a name to go with her observations.City wears suits and reeks money, probably a banker in the city hence the name. It's obvious he's a beautiful stranger she knows she has no business tangoing with. He's one of them ... the good guys.Mary Catherine Talarico, Cath, has a past that she would rather have never happened, but we all know that's not possible. Instead she inks her body with tokens of the more heinous deeds she's committed, because she's a reformed bad girl and the tattoos will remind her not to go down that path again.And she was doing so well too, reforming into Good Cath, staying on the straight and narrow, and swearing off men, until a night of drinking and antihistamines lands her directly in the path of destruction and into City's bed."I've reformed. The kissing is sort of a holdover.""Don't reform, I like you bad.""I don't want to be bad." But her arms had reached up and twined around his neck, and she had to murmur the last part against his lips."I do," he said, and took over.God, I loved everything about this book, and I'm hard pressed to read it again. Please, everyone stop, drop, and pick this book up. With only 230 pages you could breeze through it quickly.About Last Night has exceeded my expectations, and if there were more than 5 Olives to give...I would. I'm looking forward to reading other books by Ruthie Knox and hope you all do as well.