Review: Really good addition to the series. :D
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
4-4.5 starsThis was a really good story. I liked Nat in book #1 Friend-Zoned and kind of liked Asher/Ghost but wasn't sure what to expect out of this story. This was a good addition to the series and I think the author did a good job of working the relationship out between these two difficult people.Nat is a good woman but she tends to like her space and protect herself by acting like nothing gets to her and like she has no feelings. In reality things affect her rather deeply. She moved to NY to be with her BFF, Tina (heroine from book #1) and was living with her. The lease is coming up and Tina's getting married and moving in with her hubby so Nat finds herself looking for a new place as the story begins.Asher (aka Ghost) is a good guy but he's had a tough life. He had a very abusive father and a mother that was abused as well and did nothing to protect him. Asher went through years of torture and hell until he met Nik (the hero from book #1) and ended up adopted in to Nik's family. They're now brothers in all but blood. Asher has a problem with relationships though...because of his past he doesn't understand love or how it feels. This makes it very difficult because he can't recognize it in himself when it start to bloom.Asher and Nat had a moment about a year before when they had hot monkey sex in a conference room in the upstairs of the White Rabbit night club (which Nik, Asher and Max all run). After that things were tense between them until Nat said she wanted them to avoid each other. Asher wasn't happy about his but what could he say...? They don't really see each other for most of the next 7 months and the story kicks in at the end of the 7 months, just as Nat is moving in to a new apartment. Her first night in the new place, Nat has problems with the next door neighbor keeping her up for hours with noisy sex. Once it hits around 3am Nat goes next door and knocks to complain. She's shocked to find Asher lives there and was having the noisy sex. This makes things even more tense between them at first but soon Asher convinces Nat to give it a rest and try to be friends because their inability to hang in the same room causes problems with their mutual group of friends. Nat agrees and they start to get to know each other, finding they're actually a lot alike.Soon after moving in to her new place, Nat meets a guy that seems nice so she agrees to a date. Things go well at first but on the second date he shows some new colors and becomes and abusive jerk, hitting her over a note that doesn't mean what he thinks it does (and even if it did he had no right to hit her). Nat turns to Asher for help and he protects her when the guy returns, making sure that he wont return and threaten Nat ever again. Nat and Asher become friends (even going so far as to prank each other) and I liked seeing them get there. It's something both aren't sure about but they both want to try deep down. At one point Nat has fun blocking Asher's pickup attempts at the club and it ends them up in a sexual situation that brings them in to a closer relationship (although they still don't tell their friends). They end up slowly opening up to each other and for Asher this is important and means a lot because he has some heavy crap in his background. There are a few stumbles in the relationship and the majority of them come from Asher because he truly doesn't know love and doesn't understand how to recognize it when he thinks he might be in love with Nat. He does bounce back from his mess ups pretty well though so I was happy with the way it goes for them. Both Nat and Asher go through some drama as things get worked out but they end up with a well deserved HEA.I really enjoyed this story. Both Nat and Asher grew on me a lot during this story and I was so happy that they found happiness together. While I really liked Nat and I had a soft spot for Asher after seeing how much he dealt with growing up and how much he grow emotionally during this story. Loved the ending and I can't wait to see how things turn out in the next book in the series. I'd recommend this story. Thumbs up. :D