Review: 4.5 stars. Hot romance!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2014
This is the first book in the Breathe series by new authors Zoe Norman. I was immediately sold on the blurb. Hey NYFD firefighter? Oh yes! Owen Maxwell certainly lives up to the imagery of I have of a sexy, smoking hot firefighter in my head and is a definite new book boyfriend to drool over.He meets beautiful Olivia Burke in the airport bar when both are on their way to Seattle, him to celebrate his best friend’s wedding and her for work purposes. The coincidences then keep happening by finding themselves on the same flight, in adjacent seats and hotels next door to each other.Owen is a bit of a player and has been ever since his fiancé walked out on him and he resolved never to fall for a woman again. But Olivia is something special which he acknowledges on their first meeting. She’s gorgeous, funny and permeating that spark that seems to ignite when they are together. They share a hot and sexy moment in the airplane bathroom and after agree to meet up whilst in Seattle. It’s from there that the coincidences continue and the attraction increases tenfold.The chemistry and sexual tension was a total winner and instantly the reader is taken on a sensual and believable story of two people trying to overcome disappointment from a past relationship gone badly. I loved the story build-up and how the reader was gently brought in to grasp a full knowledge of both characters and their psyche. I totally ‘got’ why they both said and did and there was none of this annoying angst and game playing. It was just a hot, sexy, enticing romance.There was one area that I did not feel was needed and that was the turn up of the ‘exes’ as this just follows from where other books go. They certainly needed to be left in the past as their interference in Owen and Olivia’s life was an obstruction of the story flow. Yes we like to have a touch of angst and jealously but not with how these exes had exited from their lives.Anyhow that is only one minor thing as I loved everything else about this book and it definitely lived up to my expectations. Great storyline, gorgeous characters and a real feel good factor sexy romance. I can’t wait for the next one. Four and a half stars.