Review: Warm-light hearted story with some sultry heat
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
First taste of contemporary romance from this author - Actually I am quite familiar with her alias's work (historical and yummy Irishmen).--- 12% Most small town communities you always have the bad crowd and the preppy high-class crowd. Spin starts us off in such a town called Dodge Run.In Dodge run the Dante males are known to be the ruination of womenkind. Even seen talking to them can ruin a girl's reputation. And Finn Dante is no exception to the rule even at the young age of fourteen.Jane MacInnees is Finn's complete opposite in the social scene. Daughter of the town's powerful people, a cheerleader. She was raised to stay away from the Dante men with warnings of dire circumstances. She's a little too reserved, too cautious.Technically not a reunion story but one where the hero and heroine grew up in the same, town, knew each other by rumors---57% in - Wowza! That last sex scene... I had to stop reading just to cool down there. Quite inventive, never read a scene like that but in no way would I wanna try that out. I'd be way too embarrassed..The rest of the story sped by in a warm-and-light-hearted haze. To be honest Janey was not my ideal heroine. However, she is the perfect counterbalance for Finn's character, the perfect yin to his yang to make things work.Much of her views and quirks were ingrained by Dodge and her family. To the point where she was afraid to step out beyond the sphere she was mandated. Though her character was not one that I liked I identified with her, the frightened of trying aspect.Me identifying with her kept me from totally disliking her.And Finn - you gotta adore and love a man who is willing to tell his lady it straight. He backing his lady, protecting her from the slimeball rich boss or simply instilling confidence, telling her she could do anything she wanted.In First- Person but I liked how the author broke the scenes into different POV. We did not just get "one" side. One scene she would start in Janey's POV. The next scene Finn's. In First Person we are often cheated on the other's thoughts and feelings just knowing the one character's innermost thoughts and feelings. I thought she handled the need to know both this way.Ending was not necessarily a cliff hanger but a prelude that Janey and Finn's adventures are not over but this was just a taste for things to come.. And well I am hoping that we meet some more Dante men and Dante's friends..