Review: Likeable romance with a "miracle" at the end
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2014
The PremiseSecond book in the Friend zoned series.  Asher 'Ghost' Collins and Natalie Kovac were like oil and water at first, but a one night stand shows these two that their connection is combustible. Nat ends up as Asher’s neighbor, and they attempts to be friends, but can they settle when they could be so much more than that?The Good-Ms. Aurora has created a great little ‘verse of friends and some of the strongest scenes are of -Nat, Asher and their group of friends hanging out with each other.-Asher and Natalie’s chemistry is strong and their love scenes are smoking.-Nat isn’t a TSTL heroine and she’s not some retiring virgin, and for a long while I was happy that she had some, well issues that she had accepted about herself (trying to remain spoiler free).-Asher fills his Alpha role, with the pre-requisite tortured past, well for the most part.The Bad-Stream of consciousness inner monologues are hard to pull off and sometimes Nat/Asher sounded distressingly similar to me. As in, Asher was a bit girly with his feels.-The “miracle” at the end of the book almost ruined it for me - this is a personal issue but I hate when certain problems are resolved in a fantastical manner just to have a standard HEA, when that “problem” was part of what made the story different in the first place.  It seemed unnecessary and trite.The Bottom LineWhile the ending soured a bit (and made this drop a star for me), I enjoyed the story overall and I’d read more by Ms. Aurora.