Review: Sweet and Hot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
I am loving this series from Jessie Evans!! In this second of the Fire & Icing series we have the story of Faith Miller and Mick Whitehouse. Faith is content, sortof, to continue living by her rules to not depend on anyone least of all a man. She grew up watching her mother do this and has vowed that she will never lose herself to anyone else. She is the lone female firefighter in town and fiercely independent and private. Mick too is private but for differnet reasons; one because his sisters Naomi and Maddie are trying to be in his business but two because he has been burned by his last relationship and isn't looking for anything serious. But he's drawn to Faith, and after the scorching kiss they shared at the Fireman's Ball Mick is determined to get to know Faith better.Faith and Mick have known each other since elementary school, but as Faith says "Mick's all grown up, tempting as sugar coated sin" and he is "determined to seduce Faith into forgetting all her rules..."So despite the heat that is between them, Faith is resistant and Mick is more than determined to "have her and get her out of his system". Though he finds that the more he is with Faith, the more he wants her for more than just a quick anything.I loved seeing the interaction between these two characters! Loved how Mick is learning to love Faith "just as she is" and that Faith, despite her fears is learning that Mick doesn't want to change her but wants to be her partner. Faith is an anti-princess and scoffs at the notion of anyone "saving" her and Mick tries hard to get her to see that though he wants to help her he knows she's capable of saving herself. In many ways Faith is saving him and they are each others heroes in many ways. Mick has had his fill of being with a "damsel in distress" as his psycho ex proves.Jessie is getting better and better in each book, the heat and intensity in this one was great! I loved all the ways that the story weaves other Summerville characters and we get a sneak at Maddie and Jamison, who I think are going to be even hotter!! Each of her books adds a bit more sweetness and heat. And I have come to know that I will always be smiling, laughing and in some cases fanning myself!!One of my favorite lines is at the end and Faith has realized that what she and Mick have found is more than a blessing. "After years of being so certain, so sure, so convinced that love was never going to find its way into her lonely corner of the world, sometimes the happiness she'd found with Mick was almost painful. It was like medicine applied to a wound, hurting as it healed, but a blessing, no doubt about it..."This is an outstanding read! Go get it today and if you haven't met the rest of Summervilee, GA check them all out they are that good!