Review: Quick, simple, romance-lite
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
Sheri is a single mother of 7-month old twins; her military-husband left her for a stripper.She comes from a long line of military/marine brothers/father, etc.After her husband left her, and still reeling from her overbearing family - Sheri is on an anti-marine/military anything-related, men.Her brother is very concerned about her safety and health (since taking care of 7-month old twins by yourself is exhausting) he enlists his friend's help, Sam. Sam is to pose as a civilian manny. (male nanny).Yeah - at this point I was rolling my eyes. Sam is buff, reeks of being a marine, and is posing as a nanny- with culinary skills? How naive is Sheri?So the plot is really straight forward and simple. Sam is feeling guilty about lying to Sheri, is falling in love with her, and is involved in silly antics with the twin boys. Sheri is overwhelmed, falling in love with Sam's nurturing the boys and taking care of her as well. Bad 'villain' creates enough problems so that there is enough danger and drama to keep Sam feeling the need to take care of Sheri.There are sex scenes, so this book hit me as definite summer-reading. It was short as well.The plot wrapped up with the two characters having their HEA, Heroine kicks butt, Sam is in touch with his manny capabilities and bad guy loses in the end. This is a series, so already the book sets up the next one involving Sheri's brother and possibly her best friend.This book was like me eating a piece of pie. I LOVE cake. But this book was like eating  a slice of pie. Pie is 'ok', but after I eat it, I wish I used up my 'sweet' calories on a good piece of cake. This romance-lite book was okay for a quick summer read. May revisit the series if I need some mindless, somewhat steamy, romance books to read quickly on a plane or at a summer rental.