Review: Fun and quirky characters, the crazy plots, and the supreme sexiness.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
4.5 StarsErin Nicholas is back with the second book in her Sapphire Falls series and as expected in a book by this author, hilarity ensues when everyone's favorite friend, Phoebe Sherwood, decided to get her perfect man who unfortunately is in love with someone else.  I do so love it when plans go awry and people find love where they least expect it. Getting Worked Up is smart, funny, and very sexy!You just have to love Phoebe Sherwood; I mean you have to because everyone does.  She's just a whirlwind and always in the middle of everything but in a good way and there isn't a mean bone in her body not she even likes the woman who has her hooks in her best friend and the man she intends to marry so she's decided she just has to make Matt see her as a woman and a partner.  At times she's just a wee bit off her rocker, but even that makes her attractive and then there's the fact that she knows or is related to everyone in town.  So when Joe Spencer comes to town determined to keep the woman he intends to marry from marrying another man, Phoebe is right there to coach him into being just the man that Nadia (aka Brainiac Barbie) wants.I swear most of the fun in this book came from watching Joe try and figure out Phoebe and what she was up to for the majority of this book.  He came expecting to woo his friend and the girl he wants to marry because she's steady and solid and will calm him down and he winds up meeting her complete opposite and just the type of woman he thinks he needs to stay away from.  These two need each other to break apart the friends they both want to marry but along the way they find it really hard to keep their hands, lips, words, thoughts and a lot of other things to themselves.  I loved the banter between these two, I loved how they began to figure out that the person the other one intended to marry really wasn't the right one for them, I loved how they had a hard time remembering they had a plan to put in motion because they were too busy with each other, I absolutely loved how the whole town and Phoebe's friends and Joe's co-workers could see how crazy they were about one another even when they refused to admit it and I mostly loved how they each saw how special the other one was and how they didn't need to change a thing about themselves. <sigh>As always in an Erin Nicholas book the secondary characters are pretty important and that was the case in this book.  I loved seeing the returning characters, learning more about some characters, and seeing a few that were mentioned in the last book but were never really around.  I think there is going to be some really interesting things coming down the road in Sapphire Falls and I can't wait to see it.Getting Worked Up is another excellent addition to Erin Nicholas' growing body of work; you simply can beat her fun and quirky characters, the crazy plots, and the supreme sexiness.Review copy provided for an honest review.