Review: Rev me up. (That was kind of lame of me wasn't it? :D )
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
I loved Rev.  You know when it comes to MC books, I honestly have no idea why I love some, like others, hate a few, it just all is in the writing.  There are some authors that can take this dirty gritty hard world where men are raunchy and don’t mince words, they take this world and they draw you into it.  You can’t stop reading until you finally turn that last page.  Is it a world I would want to live in?  No.  That doesn’t effect how much I love the book.In Rev, we have Grady, he is hard, harsh, talks to women in a way that had me cringing as soon as he entered the book, he has had a rough life, and now is dealing with the loss of someone close to him.  His daughter is starting to mess up in school and that is where Holly come into play.  Holly won’t let Chey fail.  She doesn’t stop staying on Grady’s butt.  She wants him to open up his eyes and see what is going on with his daughter.That gets her mixed up in Grady’s world and so the story goes.Like I said this is hard, harsh, and there is one scene that was especially difficult to read.  I normally can shut down my own emotions when it comes to things of this type in books, I can read it and it doesn’t give me nightmares.  This scene though, I had my hand over my mouth in horror at what went down.  Definitely not for the under 18 set.There are some really hot scenes, but this couple does not just fall in to bed, lust at first type kind of thing.  They build this relationship through their dislike of each other, through each of their own stubbornness, and we don’t even get into the first really hot scene until half way through the book.  I liked that about Holly.  She didn’t drop at his feet and pant away, she held her own.I liked that even though I came into this series with this book, I didn’t feel like I was lost.  I knew who each character was, who they were in relation to our hero and heroine, and what had happened in the past.I also loved that Grady wasn’t all hard.  When you got under the layers, under the hurt, we got to see the kind of man who could be.All in all, excellent book!  5 stars. I cannot wait to get caught up and read the rest of the series.Thank you so much for my copy of Rev.  I couldn’t  put it down.