Review: Sexy Seaman
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
**ARC**In this book we meet Bridie who is a young girl who grew up in the system and eventually found her forever home with a mixed group of kids. They are the only family she has and each one protects the other with their life. She was always told by her older sister that she needed to finish college and get out of the city they live in and do better than the others.So when the man of her dreams is thrown in her face, she knows she has no time for a relationship. But after spilling coffee in his lap at work, she agrees to meet with him after her shift and they talk for hours. The conversation and comfort level with Scott is just so easy. They wind up exchanging numbers and she doesn't hear from him again.Bridie is working with her brother Washington at the bar and one night a group of rowdy soldiers come in and she is regretting it from the first moment she realizes they are in her section. The group gets out of control and Bridie and her brother Washington wind up getting fired, only to have Cody who is apart of the group come up to her and apologize explaining he will fix things because it wasn't her fault. Bridie had no idea that at that moment Cody was formulating a plan to snag her for himself.Cody is known around as the guy who has had many women. He has no plans to settle down with just one woman, and from the moment he saw Bridie, she became his new conquest. He wanted to sleep with her and knew he was going to have to lie to do so. Cody set out to get his claws into Bridie and he was not taking NO for an answer.Bridie finally agreed to go out with Cody and it was like instant chemistry to her. She knew she had to keep him a secret to her family because her siblings would not be happy with her dating. When Cody dropped her off that first night, he oldest brother came out of the house and they got into a fight. It was there that he started to earn the respect of her family. Since he was already in life waste deep he winded up diving in headfirst to see where he could take it.Cody decided to take Bridie to his house one day to meet his family and they accepted her with open arms until his mom realized she came from the ghetto. No matter how much she tried to pull away from Cody, he kept reeling her in with another reason she should be with him. One day while at his house for a luncheon, she is meeting his siblings. She has no idea who this Scott is that everyone keeps speaking so highly of until HER Scott walks in the door. The one who never called her.The story continues through the trials and tribulations of their relationship and when things start to wrap up in the end, I will guarantee you don't see what is to come happening while you are reading. This book was all over the place with the feelings and back and forth. I felt bad for Bridie and how Cody’s family was treating her and making a mockery out of her. I wanted to knock them out more than once. And I loved the close family dynamic that Bridie had with her siblings. I will definitely be getting Book 2 in the series soon.