Review: A Thoroughly Enjoyable Read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2012
Thirty-Three year old Maddie is facing the prospect of going dateless to her high school reunion. She is a romance novelist and for once she'd like her real life to mirror the fantasies she creates between the pages. She wants to go back to her home town and show them that mousy Maddie got herself a smoking hot, dangerous bad-boy. She wants to "make all those judgmental jaws drop." To accomplish this she starts visiting biker bars and pool halls to search of Mr. Right. Her plan is to proposition said bad-boy into going back to the reunion with her, for hire. Finally, she strikes gold, he's playing pool and fits the bill perfectly: muscled, tattooed, and as he turns around *gasp* he has to the face of a god with sapphire eyes: Scott Brady. He immediately wins her (and me) over with this line:"An escort? Pretty girl like you?" That was it. I was taking him home and handcuffing him to my furniture.He agrees to consider her offer only if she does something in return: escort him on a date and pretend she's his girl-friend to get his well-meaning family to stop fixing him up with "whatever is in a skirt."Going into this story, I thought this would be nothing but fun and fluff. This ended up being so much more. Yes, there was fun and smut but there were deep issues also. At first because I wasn't expecting this so, I was a little thrown, and wasn't sure I would end up liking the direction it was taking. But I was pleasantly surprised. I thought the author did a great job handling the issues, while keeping the story sufficiently smutty and entertaining. I have to admit, I wanted to smack Maddie a few times and tell her: "Girl, are you crazy?!! Grab on and don't let go!" But I can understand that she had a lot of issues to deal with that clouded her judgment. Scott, on the other hand, was an absolute prince throughout the story (I'll take one, please!). I was a little worried about how all this would play out. I'm a girl who's all about the HEA, real-life has enough tragic endings. Why would I choose it in my entertainment? Turns out my worries were unfounded and I wasn't disappointed. This turned out to be a really sweet story!