Review: fun light romance suspense
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
Wild on You is a fun and light romance suspense with some cheeky humor and sexy banter, but plan on suspending your disbeliefs a bit for this one. This is book one in a new series staring hot and sexy former Navy SEALs who now work for Chase Justiss of The Justiss Alliance security firm.For comparison, the writing and storyline reminds me a lot of author Christie Craig, who also writes fun over-the-top romance suspense novels with cheeky humor and a good dose of heat. If you like her books, or that format, I'd recommend this series. If you are looking for something along the lines of Troubleshooters by Suzanne Brockmann, this isn't your book.This is Risk's story. He is a former SEAL and a complete thrill-seeking adrenaline junkie. His first official case is to babysit Addie, a spunky lesbian animal rights activist who has pissed off a legion of groups with her less-than-legal methods to protect animals. Her overbearing, ex-military father hired The Justiss Alliance security firm against her will, and she isn't ready to play by Risk's new rules.As you can well guess, Addie isn't really a lesbian and the sparks quickly fly between these two. But everything else is true, as she is ruthless in her pursuit of saving animals from terrible (and often fatal) conditions, and will put her own life at risk if necessary. After nearly losing her life to save a young tiger named Tigs, she has no choice but to admit what her father already knew: someone wants her dead.The story moves at a clip pace and ends with a dramatic life-and-death encounter with the bad guys. It has a good dose of naughty steam as well. This has the insta-lust-to-love formula, but it worked for this type of story. While the dialogue felt a bit forced, and Addie border lined as a TSTL heroine at times, I still enjoyed it.As I said earlier: this book requires you to suspend your disbeliefs and just go with it. This book isn't big on accuracy or realism, its more farcical and silly. I am not sure I will stay with this series though, it was good but I wasn't blown away.This is a stand-alone read, but I would recommend you first read Wild Hearts, a short novella that explains the teams suspension from the SEALs program and introduces each of the new characters. This story will re-visit the event that took place in Mexico (but not in much detail), so it is not required, but you will get a much better understanding of the teams dynamic if you read it first.ARC provided by Netgalley.com