Review: Would have liked more dialogue between the H&H
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
I have just discovered this author and read both her previous books Brother's Keeper and Devil's Pawn one after the other so when I discovered Restoring Jordan would soon be released, I was a happy reader.Adeline is a 22 year old virgin and not particularly by choice but more because she has been studying so hard to earn her Internship at the prestigious Architecture firm. When she is out celebrating with her friends, she catches Jordan's eye but she doesn't think he pays her more than one glance until she comes out of the toilet and he is waiting for her and ask her if she wants to have sex with him (well it's hotter than that but Amazon won't publish the word!). Adeline realises Jordan is older and perhaps too old for her (he's 34) but she can't resist him. Before they have sex, he makes sure she is aware that he does not do relationships and only has one night stands. She doesn't tell him she's a virgin and he doesn't realise until the morning when Adeline has already left.The next week when Adeline arrives at the firm she finds that Jordan is one of the Partners. It is not long before they start a 'relationship' which features a lot of sex...sex in the street, sex in the workplace etc etc! Adeline has quite a lot happen to her at work, not all of it pleasant and I did feel she could have stood up for herself more. Especially with the nightmare character of Vera.Jordan has a few 'issues'. He has never been close to his parents. He is divorced and since his divorce he has just used women for sex but does not have relationships. That changes for him when he meets Adeline.This book features lots of hot steamy sex and the author can definitely write a good sex scene. This book is told from both Adeline and Jordan's POV's. As with Brother's Keeper, the male POV did not work for me. At times Jordan sounds feminine...when a new chapter would start, it could take me a few sentences to work out which POV it was as they were both so similar.I also have to agree with the other reviewer in that I would have liked more dialogue between the two. There is too much inner dialogue and not enough conversations between them both. I have to admit, I didn't really feel that they fell in love due to the fact we didn't get to read enough of their conversations.This sounds like quite a negative review but I do recommend this book and I do like this author it's just out of her three novels, this one has been the weakest. I think I was spoilt with the exceptional Devil's Pawn and interestingly, that book only has the female POV, which I think may work better for this author until she can make her hero's POV a bit more male!