Review: Wild Child
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
Rusty and Jenna got their own story!Rusty and Jenna got their own story!Rusty and Jenna got their own story!WOOHOO!!! YEEHAW!!!***Happy dancing all around***First things first- I LOVE Michelle Leighton!Her Bad Boys series is one of my favorites- Cash & Nash? YUMMY!My fellow Mean Girl and friend, Lyndsie, not only recommended The Wild Ones to me, but she also gifted it to me as well. I mean she LOVES Trick hard so I HAD to meet him. BEST.IDEA.EVER!I even made a shelf in his honor on here- Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy- Giddy Up baby!In The Wild Ones (book 1) we met Rusty and Jenna, Trick and Cami's best friends, who of course got all hot and heavy with each other. Is there anything better than your best friend hooking up with your significant other's bestie? Nope. It's awesome.We needed their story, whether is was a full length novel OR novella, I didn't care we just NEEDED something for them and oh we GOT IT!When Wild Child starts off we have the gang preparing for Trick and Cami's wedding, there are NO words for how happy this made me- NONE. Not only are they doing the planning and the parties BUT Cami has the bright idea that by Trick and her remaining celibate for the week before the wedding that it will make the wedding night even better BUT she also drags poor Jenna and Rusty into this bright idea of hers."You **ck-blocking gutter snipe!""**ck-blocking gutter snipe?" she laughs.I giggle.  "I don't know where in blue blazes that came from. See what a lack of sex does to me?"All the fun around the celibacy had me 'LOL'ing and it made me wonder who was actually going to cave first- Rusty and Jenna or Trick and Cami.There were some pretty hot moments of non-sex...just sayin'.Jenna has just returned back to town from finishing up college. She wants to make plans for the future but doesn't really know where she stands with Rusty."I think he sees us as...temporary...  He thinks I'm some sort of wild child that will never settle down.""You are a wild child, Jenna. But that's not a bad thing. It's who you are. It's what makes us all love you so much.""But that doesn't mean that I'm gonna bail on someone I love.""No, it doesn't. And I'm sure Rusty knows that. Deep down."Here's the thing we can SEE and we can FEEL how much Rusty cares about Jenna- for me as a reader it was obvious however Rusty and his mother we abandoned by his father when he was younger so he feels that Jenna will do the same and he doesn't want to be left with his heart broken and world in pieces.You can love somebody and still end up leaving them.  Some people are just made that way--to always want greener pastures.  I've seen it before.  And I'm not getting attached to a person like that again.Rusty and Jenna have undeniable chemistry.In the bedroom and out of the bedroom.Hell- they have EXPLOSIVE chemistry on a mechanical bull.Yep. You read that right- MECHANICAL BULL.OH.MY.GOD!!!YES.PLEASE.AND.THANK.YOU!!!I totally dig a dirty talking cowboy!Trick and Cami's wedding was beautiful.Sometimes when we get a book about other characters the people that we loved so much in another book aren't around much and I'm so grateful that this wasn't the case here. I wanted to see this wedding and I'm so glad that we did.After the wedding, Rusty takes off and soon finds himself at crossroads with how to handle his relationship with Jenna due to some unforeseen circumstances . He knows that she will stay with him but for how long and at what cost? Rusty does the one thing that he knows he can control right then in that moment- he breaks her before she can break him."You're not the kind to settle, Jenna. That's all I'm saying. You're the kind who has big plans for a better life. And that doesn't include this town or the people in it. We both knew that. And it was fun while it lasted. No reason to drag it out."Jenna tries to focus on her future instead of the pain that Rusty has caused her but when Jenna's world is destroyed in a split second and Rusty reaches out to her will she be able to move past the heartbreak and pain that Rusty has put her through or will she live up to being the Wild Child that Rusty knows she is and run far from her fears and the promise of forever?