Review: Wow! Complete Surprise. Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
This book completely took me by surprise!This novella features Pace, a character from Andrea Randall’s November Blue series, and Stephanie, a characters from Michelle Pace’s The Sound Wave Series. Both series I have yet to read.Pace is an attractive, ambitious, confident lawyer who commands attention when he walks into a room. He’s extremely picky when it comes to women so he mostly just has casual flings since no one has brought him close to wanting to settle down. One night, he’s with a date and he gets an unexpected phone call.Enter Stephanie. Her and Pace went to college together at Columbia and have a very interesting history. After a bad breakup she starts driving and ends up heading to Boston."So as I rolled the word fun around in my mind (trying to recall the last time I’d actually had some), I couldn’t help but think about Pace Turner. Good old Pace. Six feet and four inches of ripped, ebony sex god. Tasty, tattooed, and oozing testosterone."The story is told in dual POV and alternates between them meeting up again and flashing back to their time in college. They met when Stephanie was doing a photo shoot for the Princeton website.“Hey, Cary, this isn’t a Playgirl shoot.” She’d snapped her fingers and whistled. “Get those bedroom eyes off your face.”Cary. The unauthorized nickname made my lip curl.“What’s the matter, stud? Did I strike a nerve? Pay attention.”She hid behind her giant lens and resumed her rapid-fire clicking.“What’s your name?”I’d taken off the vest and loosened my tie and collar.“Uh-uh, big shot. Just stand there and look pretty.”As you can see she is feisty and has zero filter. Pace is immediately taken with her attitude and complete lack of interest in him. I absolutely loved watching these two battle. It was funny, intense, and hot! They are dysfunctional, constantly butting heads and have some crazy chemistry. Neither is about the feels, they are about the sex… until they aren’t. Then things get complicated.The reason this took me by surprise is that it is a novella about two characters I have ZERO investment in. I haven’t read the other series they are in. I honestly had no idea that this book was coming out, but I randomly saw it go live at midnight on Monday night and deciding to one click and just read a chapter. Yeah, well I didn’t move until I finished it a couple hours later. I was completely hooked from page one and couldn’t stop reading, even when I tried because I knew I had to be up in 4 hours for work.I also thought this was just going to be a quick, steamy read, all sex, no substance. WRONG. I was completely blown away by how attached to the characters and their story I was. I can’t even explain it, but at one point my chest literally hurt and no point could I put this book down. I am dying to read these series now. I loved both of these characters, they were written with so much wit and spark and I enjoyed every second of it!