Review: Rev it Up!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
*I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher, Red Circle Ink, for an honest review.Inspire Me is an erotic May/December romance between ad exec, Lily Bishop and the owner of a Hot Rod garage, Raine Reyes. He is twenty-four with a troubled past, and she is...well,we never really find out how old she is. My guess is 40-ish. This is not a cougar situation. She was not looking for a relationship...and certainly not one with a younger man. They met when she crashed her bicycle into a car that he had refurbished and was test driving. There was immediate chemistry between the two of them, and their story launches from that chance encounter. Raine is an old soul. He has packed a lot of life experience into his twenty-four years. Lily has been living a necessary life...giving up her dream job in photography for something solid that would pay the bills. She has been very successful at it, and lives in a penthouse apartment that is paid off. Raine has realized his dream of owning his grandfather's garage, but has debts left to pay. Lily offers him a job as a model for a new ad campaign. It pays a LOT of money, and the client has asked for him specifically after Lily inadvertently sent some candid pictures of Raine to her client, instead of to herself (as she had intended). As their relationship progresses, they both realize that it has potential, though Lily is very apprehensive. Watching them peel the layers of their relationship was page turning goodness. Who could not fall in love with Raine? He is complex sexiness...the perfect combination of alpha bossy versus gentle thoughtfulness.I would love to follow their story in future books. I just know they will have a happy ending. This was not a cliff-hanger...just hard to put down.