Review: This Was Not Love...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
I am a fan of Sawyer Bennett’s writing, but not all her stories.  While I liked Off Limits and Off the Record, I did not like Off Sides or this one, Off Course.  Cillian O’Bradaigh was a jerk and, in my opinion, NEVER redeemed himself in the story.  Sure there were sweet words of love in the end that made you Want to say “ahh”, but all his actions up to that time REALLY negated the WORDS and I just didn’t buy the HEA.Naive American Renner Caldwell was visiting her cousins in Ireland when she met the lead singer of Over The Edge and they shared a “moment” until it was clear the virgin Renner was not going to put out and was replaced within five seconds with someone who would.  Five years later, a now deflowered and wiser Renner is back in Ireland and being pursued by the same lead singer who is on holiday for the summer, and quite frankly, seems bored.Cillian O’Bradaigh is a man-whore who shared a passionate relationship with his psycho lead bassist, Maeve who refuses to let him go.  Seeing Renner again sparked his competitive spirit as she is the ONLY girl who has ever refused him and she seems determined to do so again.Renner has been betrayed by her previous lover and is in no mood to be used up again, except that her life expectations have not panned out despite her meticulous planning and she is feeling compelled to being spontaneous.  Having the king of spontaneous pursue her, she finally gives in and believes she can just take what he is offering – a F**** for one night.  Both are surprised when it last longer, especially Maeve who is not willing to let Cillian go.Maeve tricks or guilts Cillian in to dividing his time between her and Renner and Renner finally makes him choose.  Cillian chooses wrong and realizes it too late.There was so much sex in this book and very little romance despite Cillian’s assurance that he wanted Renner for more than sex.  There was NO PROOF of that and saying it does not make it so.  We get a BRIEF look and Finn and Nix in the end, but nothing to tell us what is going on with them.  There is an epilogue that gives a Small look at book 5, the final in the series, and I have my fingers crossed that I will like it more than this one.I have always LOVED alternating POV’s as long as they tell me something new.  I love how I get to know each character and truly know what is going on emotionally.Lots of profanity (f-word, a$$, b- word) and descriptive sex and some minor editing issues.