Review: Harte to Heart
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2011
The action starts out fast and furious (mmmm I sense a movie title in there somewhere), a bank robbery in progress, people cowering on the floor, lives being threatened by the likes of Hook Nose, Black Hair and Red Shoes. Not exactly the place to be scoping out your next potential date, but it's hard for Matt O'Connor to resist the beautiful blonde lying on the floor next to him as they share a snarky, running commentary on the ineptitude of the idiots robbing the bank.With the crisis averted, Matt decides to make a move on his snark-alicous partner-in-crime and ask her out for dinner. When she appears to think it over before stamping "Denied" on his forehead, Matt is dumfounded, literally in shock - Who the hell mulls over going out on a date with him? With a sympathetic grin and a sassy wave, Savannah Harte leaves Matt O`Connor in her wake to nurse his wounded ego. You go girl!Big, bad-ass, bald, commitment-phob, Navy SEAL Matt O'Connor finally meets the one girl who doesn't want a relationship. He's been a man-slut for years and in his own words "if he were counting notches on his belt - he would need 10 of them." It seemed kind of like poetic justice then that Savannah Harte, owner of her own florist business Harte to Harte was the first girl to put the unflappable Matt off his game.Savannah should have been the girl of Matt's dreams...she just wanted to have sex with him and then when she got bored with him as she inevitably would, she would just send him on his merry way with no regrets. But the more serious Matt got about having a real relationship with Savannah, the more she was determined to keep things between them all about the S-E-X.This is my first Elle Kennedy book and although it's the sixth book in the series, I had no issue picking up this series midstream. There are mentions of characters I'm going to take a major leap and assume are from previous books, but they had no real bearing on this story.This was a fast, easy, sexy read as this commitment challenged duo tried to get past their fears and give love a chance to bloom.I will definitely be checking out some of the other Men in Uniform stories in the series