Review: Summer of the Cougar
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2012
While Summer of the Cougar is in the Cougar Challenge  series, it can easily be read as a standalone.Schoolteacher Larissa Cross sees her fortieth birthday quickly approaching. So the empty nest widow does what any self respecting cougar does: she sheds her schoolmarm clothes, buys a sports car and hits the beach!Bolstered by a challenge on a blog, she heads for the beach in search of eye candy. But her new sports car catches fire from some malfunction. When the fire department shows, it's lust at first sight for fireman JD Harmon.Soon begins a delicious affair, but when he tries to take it further, Larissa has no desire to hear about his life or plans. But JD has no intention of letting her keep things casual and will show her that Cougar Challenge or no, he's there for keeps.I've recently become intrigued by the older woman, younger man theme. I don't know how realistic this theme is being played out but in the literary world, it sure is a scorching topic! What older woman wouldn't be flattered by the attentions of a younger man? To know that she still `has it' according to today's standards?Maybe it's because I've now accepted I'm that thirty-plus woman, but still very much aware of my own sexuality, but I've now found the repartee and growing relationship between Larissa and JD scorching. He's incredibly mature for his age. Combined with his age, what woman could resist him?  Then when Larissa learns what he's really about? It makes for nothing but heart wrenching emotion that threatens to topple even the hardest of readers.Kudos to Nicole Austin for a deliciously wicked tale. Authors of cougar fiction are bound to go wild over this one.Courtesy of Fallen Angel Reviews.