Review: LOVED Rouugh and Tumble!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
4.5 StarsCrystal Green introduces a deeply emotional contemporary romance series with Rough and Tumble. Punctuated by blistering-hot sex scenes and fascinating glimpses into the tough world of motorcycle bars, this romance also delivers true heart and emotion, and a story that will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.Molly P. Preston is so easy to relate to. Career girl, always doing the right thing…go to work, come home, do the right thing always, never deviating…”Miss Prim and Proper”. After being sexually harassed by her pervy boss and walking away from a much needed job, she and her girlfriends decide a road trip is needed to cheer her up and take her mind off the situation for a few days. On the way to Las Vegas,they decide to stop at a biker bar at the edge of town. It’s the middle of the day, and there are not many people there. It’s a good time to check it out and take a break. Guess who just happens to be sitting at the bar? Cash Campbell! The rest is history (but you’ll have to read the book to find out what that is.)The secondary characters were fun to get to know – especially Cash’s friends. I really didn’t love Molly’s traveling companions, Arden and Sofia. I thought they were both irritating and detracted from the story. I give them credit for being loyal friends, though.Let me just say that I LOVE CASH! There were so many contradictions with that man. He was all HOT alpha male with a side of vulnerable. It turns out that’s the perfect combination. Cash is a traveling man, never one to settle down in one town, with one woman, for more time than absolutely necessary. But Cash has faced his own demons, and he's learned a lot about himself, and about the life he knows he's meant to live. He has commitment issues and is very clear and honest about it to his women. In other words he doesn't lead them on.Cash is a study in accepting people for who they are. Although I may not have agreed with the way he decided to live his life and his approach to relationships, when you find out his story you can completely understand why he is the way he is and that if Molly had handled him in any other way things would not have been able to work between them. I just love a tough, brooding sexy as sin, heart-melting alpha male like Cash.This was one hot book packed with action, suspense and passion that burns through each chapter between these two. Crystal Green definitely has an automatic reader with this reviewer. Overall, a great read and I highly recommend it.ARC provided by NetGalley and Penguin Group (USA) LLC.