Review: Funny, heartwarming and sexy as sin
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
This story kicks off with Emma partaking in a crazy dare to help cheer up her best friend after a breakup. This is the first time Emma meets Tobias, naked as the day she was born, with a cop car doing patrols of the neighbourhood. He saves her from possibly being lifted, even though he doesn't know she's his future business partner.Tobias is utterly gorgeous, and the poor guy is getting over the murder of his fiancé. He's quiet, reserved, and the ex-cop in him can't help try to figure Emma out. He moved to town with his younger brother Josh--by the way, he totally needs his own story when he grows up--who Tobias has also been keeping secrets from. His first instinct is to protect those in his life. Though a bit stuffy in the beginning (the dare/stunt was frowned upon) Tobias quickly won me over with the way he cared for Emma and Josh.Emma is the quiet one in her trio of friends. She's wary, a little bit of a pushover, and a queen desert maker. But she is in no way shallow. Emma has a horrid past, losing her parents at a young age and trying to make her way in the world. She hurts, she feels, she cares and when she does I was right there with her. Tobias managed to coax her out of her shell to the point where she even stood up to the strongest personality in her group, and I think I fell for him a little more around then.All in all, Double Dare was a fantastic story and I can't wait for the second in the series, Twice Smitten. The humour one expects from a Melissa Blue story is inherent from the first page, right to the end. Both characters are a little broken, even though they may at times not think it, but they heal each other up nicely and I'm not ashamed to say I cried at the end. The scenes with Emma and her two best friends Sasha and Abigail are brilliant and I could picture being there, rolling my eyes at something Abigail said, or giggling at one of Sasha's one liners.I highly recommend this story, and can't wait for the second! Get to work Ms Blue.