Review: Love with kittens, motorbikes, Tim Tams and iced coffee
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2012
Book 2 "Big Girls Lovin'". Preceded byDoctor's Delight. Followed byVet's Desire.Plot:Finally happy in her own home with a good, secure job, and comfortable with who she is, Maddy is ready to get on with her life. Neighbour Mike has other ideas. He sees in Maddy an infuriating, independent, beautiful woman who he wants in his bed, life and heart, forever. Now to convince Maddy.Comments:- Contemporary romance with explicit sex scenes.- 3114 kindle locations,  73,223 words- m/f - forceful ("unbridled lust", "unyielding dominance"), reasonably frequent, explicit.- Maddy is "a plus-sized, confident, and pretty woman with an attitude". Her view of herself and her size has been reinforced by her family's "well-meaning" help.- As Book2 of a loosely linked series, "Cop's Passion" comfortably stands alone. There is no over-arching plot-line, the books are simply linked in time, place and people. Book1 tells the story of Mike's friend Rick finding love with Nurse Cherry. Book3 has Tim's story.Opinion:A sweet, easy story of finding love. There's no major conflict. No critical climax. No major relationship angst. It's simply a nice easy contemporary romance with two people learning to accept each other for themselves. It works. Mike is easy on the eyes, protective, dominant, loving, caring. Maddy is independent, opinionated, argumentative, loving, caring, generous. They argue. They push buttons. They work together. They compromise. And they love. Such a lovely tale of two normal people who get to find themselves a HEA.Maddy's weight. In Verdenius' "Big Girls Lovin'" stories the size of the women plays a strong role in who they are, and how they are viewed by themselves and society. In Book1 this was addressed with a slightly heavy hand. It wasn't *too* much, but could have been toned back slightly. In "Cop's Passion" Verdenius finds a lighter touch. And that makes me *happy*. Maddy could be *anyone*, from an average-sized woman who carries a few extra pounds but isn't model-perfect, to a plus-sized woman who struggles to buy off the rack. All of these women struggle with society's perception of what makes a woman "perfect". And by using a lighter touch Verdenius opens her story to a wider audience, and encourages us to have a slice of cake and accept ourselves for who we are. Noice.A solid story in a good series. Recommended.-CR-