Review: Not My Favorite Red Hot Read, but Still Quick and Fun
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
3.5 starsFor me this book was a mix of good and indifferent. The good mostly revolved around Evie, the main female character. I liked her spunkiness and her awkwardness from her love of Lord of the Rings and Dr. Who to her ridiculous tactics of trying to pick up guys in bars. It was nice to see a main character who (minus the whole multi-millionaire thing) reminded me of me and my friends in a lot of ways.Sadly, beyond Evie, I felt kind of indifferent about the rest of the story. I liked Caleb's whole playboy persona at first, but it quickly became a little bit too much like Ryan Gosling's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love. Plus, when we found out why Caleb was that way, which I liked because I love when we get an in-depth look at characters in novellas, it was just kind of sad and depressing.Evie and Caleb together were cute, I liked how he didn't judge her or make her feel uncomfortable in any way, but I also never had a real interest in their relationship. It's pretty much just sex, good sex, well written sex, mind you, but I didn't totally get why either of them wanted more. Also, and this has nothing to do with this book, it's just something I thought of while reading, why can't a man and a woman just come together and have sex? Why do they always have to want more?This was an easy, quick read with a good main character. I didn't enjoy it as much as some of the other Cosmo Red Hot reads (Misbehaving andHer Valentine's Fantasy are two of my favorites), but I wouldn't talk someone out of reading it, either.I received an electronic review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley (thank you!). All opinions are my own.