Review: Willa & Shane
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
Fantastic book! Could have used much more Willa & Shane to be honest & then I could have given it 5 full stars - it is relatively short. I had no idea when I started reading that this is the little wild sister Wip from the first Line of Duty book! My first suggestion - read that book ASAP because I absolutely loved Ginger & Derek! Do you need to read it first? No, but you get a background of Ginger & Willa's past that really makes you root for these two women. Willa has a smart mouth on her & I have always adored the relationship she built with her sister. It was always these two girls against the world! Willa loves to capture people in photos, find their true emotions when they don't know anyone is looking. It wins her a contest to go to Ireland for a month where she meets Shane & the rest of his crazy family at their bar. Shane doesn't want to be taking over the bar though - he is a great race car driver and gave up his dream when his father passed away. I didn't think I bought into the whole "soul mate" idea but I just read another book where I knew it in my heart that these two were tied together so deeply like they were one in the same. Exactly the feeling I got in this book when Willa & Shane are around each other - they are so similar and the sparks fly like crazy! Shane has a dirty mouth & he is completely hot but Willa isn't too far behind. I just don't think they expected to have such strong emotions for each other but once they touched each other it was inevitable. By this time though Willa is close to leaving again for Chicago while Shane is ready to get back to the career he loves. Willa couldn't stay with Evan because she felt she would just ruin him, and I love the selfless way she gets Shane to pursue his career without thinking of her. He finds a particular photo of her though that shows her true feelings - Shane knows no matter how much she wants to push him away, her face says it all & he knows she is in as deep as he is. Willa says so many clever things in this book & I can't say enough about how much I love her! She says when Shane smiles at her, her brain has jazz hands! :) How cute! And then when she compares her feelings for Shane against those she had for Evan back in high school, she says that Evan was like a little drizzle of rain whereas Shane is a monsoon, picking her up, spinning her around & shaking her, then dropping off somewhere completely different so she is disoriented. Yep this is the real deal!