Review: Wow!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I really need to stop reading books that feature characters from earlier books I haven't read yet. I dare you to pick this one up and not feel a burning desire to see exactly how Willa's story started. THANK GOD Protecting What's His, Willa's sister Ginger's story, is available on audiobook. Guess what book I'm listening to next?Willa's story blew me away. It's written in first person, so we can see directly into her broken, "unfixable" heart--and right through her tough-girl exterior. Readers have a front row seat first as she runs away from the breakup of a relationship that never should have been and later as she flat-out sprints away from the one she was meant to have all along. It's glorious.Willa and Shane have an antagonistic relationship from the start--she's determined to get her old who-cares-what-anyone-else-wants-or-thinks self back, and he's only hanging around his family's pub long enough to sell it and get back to his real life. Neither one wants anything to do with the other--neither has room for or wants anyone else in their lives--yet they're drawn to each other in a way that neither can deny.Watching them fight is fantastic, because it's that I-can't-stand-you-let's-just-do-it-already kind of fighting. Tessa Bailey builds up the tension nicely, ratcheting up the steam factor until the reader is almost as ready to scream as her heroine and hero are. When they finally do get together it's with trademark Tessa Bailey steam, though perhaps tempered just a tad for the new adult market. Still, it's wonderful.Willa, of course, isn't done running. Fortunately, Shane's got her number. Plus, he's not above tossing her over his shoulder to get his point across.Delicious.If you like witty banter, growly heroes, highly combustible sexual tension, and heartwarming family moments, then this is the book for you.Rating: 4 stars/ A-I received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.