Review: 3 - He had seven days to woo her. Stars!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
Jamie Lansing is a certain type of woman –She was organised, a planner, devoted to her to-do list... She was a woman who didn’t swear... She wanted someone serious, someone studious, someone she could see having a future with...Her best friend Smith Grayson is one of Hidden Oaks hottest Volunteer Fire-fighters, but also has a reputation for being a bit of a ladies’ man...He was fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants. A fireman with a Sailor mouth...He might not be relationship material, but he sure was good-in-the-sack material.The attraction is mutual; Jamie’s reasons for not giving into it are many. But she agrees to a 1 week, no-strings, friends-with benefits arrangement. Smith sees this as his opportunity to show Jamie that he can be the man that she needs him to be.This is where things went a little off course for me, because I absolutely adored Smith, the guy put himself and his feelings out on the line for Jamie time and time again, and all she seemed to do was look down on him with distrust and suspicion. I was glad when Smith finally stood up for himself.“You liked ****ing me because I’m not proper; I’m not a poet; I’m not the romantic, sensitive, perfect guy. You like the wildside. But I’m never gonna be the kind of guy you want to take home to your parents.”As you would expect Jamie does eventually pull her head out of her ***, and realises just how stupid she has been, but will Smith take another risk on having his heart stomped all over again...So although this novella wasn't a total winner for me, I liked the introduction of the town and its people. The potential Lauren Blakely has to turn future books into absolute winners is huge. I just want to fall in love with the heroine as much as I do the hero, which sadly was not the case on this occasion.ARC provided by Entangled in Exchange for the above honest review.