Review: IRISH....YUMMM...BRILLIANT!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
I was honored to receive this book as a gift from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Honest I can give without hesitation, much to my husbands dismay at times. So without disclosing to much about Fighting For Irish, I will say that I LOVED THIS BOOK! Gina Maxwell has done it again. I loved me some Reid and Jax, but Irish had me wanting to change my name back to my Irish maiden name and go stalk a MMA fight. Ohhh lordy. GO GET THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Kat MacGregor is broken, why you ask. There is some abuse in her younger years but I won't tell you what kind. Just know that instead of destroying her life she made some questionable choices. These choices have left her in danger from some serious jack@^*es. What would cause most people to huddle in a corner and rock back and forth. Kat does not. She stands and she fights for herself and what she believes in. She's not some weak little women that when she meets Irish she immedately does not want to lick his *@^$, feet, yah feet because of his sexinees (I on the other hand wanted to) She lets him know that she has an attitude to match her red hair. Feisty and takes no crap from anyone, especially not him.Aiden "Irish" O'Brien (swoon) is all kinds of male hotness with a heart that goes deep for the people he loves. He's broken too and he keeps people at arms length because of something in his past (no I won't tell you that either so stop asking). However when he does a favor for a friend and has to start interacting with Kat all bets are out the window and he starts forgetting why he keeps people away. He's an alpha-male and is so protective of Kat that his hands off approach is not working. Kat gets him like no one else before and her temper just adds fuel to his already growing lust for her.What starts out as acquaintances, moves to friendship and then to love, that will make even a cynical person believe that it can happen. They didn't immedicatly jump into bed (although when they did, whoo hoo the heavens opened up and the angels sang)and the trust had to grow. Kat did not look at Irish from the start and become, "Oh master, take me I'm yours". She all but spit in his face. There was humor, friendship and a little "kitten" that made this book believable.The book flowed well from Kat to Irish without having to reread what the other one said just moments before. The characters were life like and people can definitly relate to them and their situations. I found very few things(ok one in paticular, which again not going to tell you about)that was a little harder for me to swallow. No pun intended, but that's because of my medical background. With me having knowledge of the martial arts world, Gina's knowledge of the sport was researched well. There were minor (very minor)gramatical errors, but nothing terribly noticable. She didn't mix up any characters which I have read in other books (none of Gina's)and the story was believable and the characters love was attainable.Read and swoon over this book as soon as it comes out and I guarantee that you will not be able to put it down. The only reason I had to was because of that pesky work thing. This book was outstanding and I will most likely read it again The characters, the writing and the author make it so I can't wait for the next one.