Review: Lots of Sex, But the Romance Takes Place Off the Page
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
I love it when the bad boy and the good girl get together in romance novels, and that's the premise for Just One Night. Chase Montgomery is an ex-con who works for Addison Duval's father. She's had a crush on him as long as she's known him, but she was just a teen when that started. As she grew into a woman, Chase became aware of her, never more so than when she offered herself to him. But he respected her father and had actual feelings for Addison, so he turned her down, and she left town for years, returning now only because of her brother's wedding.But the sparks are still flying between the two, and they get together during the reception. The pace of the story is very fast, and the sex scenes are explicit and hot. I just wish that more of the relationship between the two of them took place on the pages of the book rather than in a past history that defined their relationship but that wasn't defined on the page. I liked the characters well enough, but I don't think that they were developed enough that the reader gets a real sense of their motivations (I mean, other than really good sex). The writing was pretty good, save for its brevity. I thought the ending was just a little too simple given the conflict that drove the two of them apart to begin with.  That said, I've read the description and excerpt posted for another Decadence Creek book (Just the Way You Are) and am putting it in my TBR pile.