Review: Pretty Clean but Sizzling Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2012
Tessa Kahill had grown up abandoned by first her father and then her mother. Foster care had never given her a sense of belonging, but she majored in journalism in college and is highly recognized as a foreign and national T.V. news correspondent. The only person she's ever been close to is her college roommate, Leslie. Leslie had married Tessa's old boyfriend Max, after Tessa had left him to pursue her career. Now, Leslie has died leaving Ryan, Tessa's godchild, motherless, so Tessa goes to help, when Ryan starts having problems at school. Another problem arises in that she's too attracted to Max, but she's afraid he'll always love and grieve for Leslie. Max is attracted to her, too, but he believes she'll just leave again to continue her all-important career.I enjoyed this book much more than I expected. It's hard to find a clean secular romance novel, but this one comes close. It's full of desire, passionate feelings, sizzling chemistry, and even one scene of heavy making out, but no actual sex. And, there's no profanity. I think the story is much stronger because of the building attraction and tension that isn't released. I would give it a 4.5, which rounds up to a five.