Review: B rating...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
My Review:One of my favorite tropes is friends to lovers and this one featured a firefighter and a bartender...how about that for a win? Overall this book is pretty good. I liked the relationship between Smith and Jamie. As friends, they already have a good relationship, but Jamie knows that Smith is a serial dater. She assumes that's because he doesn't want a commitment, but that's not the way Smith sees it. He just hasn't met the right girl. Jamie knows that it would be way too easy to fall for him, get her heart broken, and lose her friendship with him. That's not the way she wants to go, but she really wants the guy so she proposes a week of no-strings sex. Smith finally gives in hoping he can change her mind.Smith is one of those guys...he's nice, he's sexy, he's charming. Girls don't turn him down so he doesn't know what to do about the girl he really wants basically using him for sex. As a girl, it was a bit empowering to read this guy have a little bit of reality in his life. At the same time, I did really feel sorry for the guy too. He has it really bad and Jamie just won't give him any breaks. And on the flip side, I could totally see Jamie's side of it too. That's the problem with friends dating...they know how you treat women and it's not always a pretty reality.This book is part of Entangled's Brazen line so it's one hot little book. Honestly, that was my one complaint. Smith is a "bad-boy" and he likes to talk dirty. Normally, I like that, but something about it in this book bothered me...it just seemed too over-the-top and fake. That could totally have been because of my mood while reading this book because everything else about the book worked for me. The dirty talk just got to be way too long-winded and a bit too porn-movie-like for my tastes. Otherwise, it was a pretty good sexy little read.I received a complimentary copy of this book in return for an honest review.