Review: Sexy Ex-Boxer, String Willed Heroine.. Two Broken Souls and One Amazing Love Story...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
Caitlyn McCoe, (Cait) is a twenty-year-old business major and gym employee. She has a painful past that has lead her to believe touches are tainted. She surrounds herself with good friends, but keeps them at arm's length. She cringes at their touch even the smallest of hugs has her skin crawling and twisting in a way she is afraid will never fade. Now as she is finally putting the pieces of herself back together, out of nowhere Dominic, her ex, is back.... But he is not the only person surfacing in her life..... Fist Candy--a boxer she stumbles across at the gym... He is everything that should scare her- powerful, sexy, confident and absolutely beautiful.... He is safe and just an obsession she could appreciate from a far. Until now as they have just become coworkers. What was once just a fantasy becomes a real life man, a man who has his sights set on her. The scariest part about it.... she thinks he may just be the one to touch her all the way to her soul....Art Lyons has his own demons... He once was an up and coming boxing star and a bright medical student... Events he never thought could transpire shattered his boxing career and derailed his medical ambitions. After some much needed time off to regroup he resurfaces as the new sports massage therapist at Caitlyn's gym. He has no desire to let anyone in nor explain the 4 red tattoo slashes donned across his hip. Those are his battle scars, a reminder so he never forgets. When he meets Caitlyn he knows she is special and he wants her... Something about her leads him to believe she might be the one who can quite those demons....This book had a little bit of everything- sexy alpha male who is an ex-boxer-"He drives one fist after the other, and each hit echoes loudly as the bag creaks on its chain..... There's almost something dirty about the rhythm. I find myself zeroing on the muscles in his broad back rove beneath his skin"a wounded, but not broken heroine-"though it felt like all the colour had been drained from me... I was a clean slate" - CaitAlong with well rounded secondary characters and even humor that made me laugh out loud. The topics breached in the story while dark are not deeply disturbing and the humor off sets allowing for a good story flow. This book is a definitely a must read if you like a sexy hero, battered, but not broken heroine, need-a-fan on hand kind of lovin' and some really witty banter between all the characters of the book.Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads