Review: Lots of angst and lots of lust!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
Mousy librarian meets the Air Force hero; sounds like a match made in heaven, right?  Yeah, not so much, and Brianne Nave was not just some quiet pushover.  She may have spent her days engrossed in books and entertaining her pet fish, but when the lickable Ryan Flannery showed up at her door for a blind date and gave her a reaction she didn’t like, all bets were off for these two.  It sparked a battle of wits and sharp tongues that left me wondering how these two could ever find their way into a civil conversation, let alone the same bed.  But it also made for an entertaining road to get there, to say the least!Brianne was not one of those characters that I have warm feelings about.  She was prickly and borderline rude to Ryan at the drop of a hat, and a lot of her comments were based on rumors and her first impression of a guy who didn’t even deserve her attitude.  But I did love seeing Ryan lash right back, putting the presumptuous new resident of his hometown in her place on more than one occasion.  Her strange obsession with her pet fish aside, he was intrigued by the quiet but outspoken woman who just couldn’t stop pushing his buttons.  They triggered this hatred/lust reaction from each other, and it was like a minefield between the start and finish.  Once they got down to the basic fact that they both were crazy hot for each other, though, they didn’t hold back!Forced to spend days alone together and work out their issues, all kinds of fireworks were going off.  There was a lot of tension, both the yummy kind and the bitter, between these two, and it led to a lot of bickering and of course plenty of hot sex.  But the dynamics here were just a little hard for me to go along with.  I liked that this wasn’t a smooth sailing textbook romance story, but it was almost too much in the other direction.  Brianne would go from hateful to wanting to yank Ryan’s pants off and ride him like a stallion, and I had a hard time with her polar opposite reactions.  I was definitely a fan of Ryan, between his good-natured outlook and the fact that he was an air force hero, and he was a saint for putting up with Brianne’s attitude.  When she finally started to thaw a bit, and the friends who pushed them together were proved right in thinking they were perfect together, Brianne became a much more likable character.  In the end, their story was definitely enjoyable, but took a little too long to lose the angst for my taste.Quotes:How could one giant brute taste so decadent?  She slid her tongue along his, not sure if she was searching for an answer or simply enjoying the way her very nerves seemed to spark and dance at every place they touched. ~p. 24“I appreciate that.”  He patted the rug next to him.  “Now come closer. I promise I won’t bite.”But what if I want you to?~p. 131