Review: Editing is shaky, main characters aren't that interesting, and two major factual errors jarred me out of the book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
This is the first part of a serial -- hot stripper guy with uptight "curvy" woman.  After they meet during a "Hot Abs" contest that she is judging, they awake the next morning to find themselves married.  The story isn't that bad, but it's pretty predictable where it is going (Valerie refuses to believe that Wes could actually be attracted to her, which I'm sure will wind up being an issue in their relationship before he finds some way to convince her that he is for real and they begin their HEA).Two major issues jarred me out of the book, issues that were very easy to check via Google:One:  Valerie and Wes wake up with tattoos, tattoos that she has absolutely no memory of getting.  While the details of how they got these tattoos are never quite clear, what is clear is that Nevada (like most states) absolutely prohibits giving tattoos to people who are visibly intoxicated.  Maybe they found a tattoo parlor that was willing to circumvent these guidelines -- but I'm somewhat doubtful, given that Valerie would have been incredibly intoxicated when they went to the parlor (when the night before fades out, she's already incredibly drunk).  A complaint could put their license in danger -- they shouldn't be tattooing anyone who is drinking, period.Two:  Let's say that the County Clerk was willing to issue a marriage license to two people who were stumbling drunk (nothing on their website says you have to be sober, so I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt here).  The entire plot hinges on the fact that Valerie and Wes aren't able to get a divorce because neither one of them are Nevada residents.  While this reading of Nevada divorce law seems appropriate, Vernon ignores the real option that Valerie could pursue to dissolve the marriage (the much more appropriate one, given they only met each other the night before) -- annulment.  Annulment can take place as long as the marriage was in Nevada, regardless of where the parties are from.  And both of them would have adequate grounds to file for an annulment -- Valerie clearly had a "lack of understanding" and Wes was a victim of "fraud" (Valerie made it sound like she was rich, which is why he wanted to marry her).  The fact that the author ignored this very possible option (Valerie's lawyer friend didn't even mention it!) makes the subsequent action in this book seem silly.