to steal from him to pay off your blackmailing drug dealer. Former drug
dealer, thank you very much. I’m turning over a new leaf and all that.
Which is why I should leave him alone.
Except he tempts me to do things I swore I’d stop doing. It’s that whole gruff,
grumbly, anti-social thing he has going on. Him, flame. Me, moth. Something
about him calls to me, makes the blood hum in my body. And I don’t want that
feeling to end.
Lucy Connors is straight-up insane.
She looks like a Disney princess and tries my patience in more ways than I
thought possible. Besides the fact that I have to save her cute little ass from
jail, I can’t quite figure out how to leave her alone. Even when she’s trying
her hand at Breaking and Entering. Especially when it’s myhouse
she’s burglarizing.
Yeah, we were probably doomed from the start.
But that’s the thing about being hooked on something so good, and so bad for
you—you don’t walk away when you should.
Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
I don’t think I’ve read a book with two mismatched characters more than X and Lucy. But they are just so hilarious together, I devoured this story in a single day.
Everyone has their issues, and X has more than most. I love a good damaged hero, and X had it going on in spades. Reformed drug dealer Lucy is a hot, hot mess, and when X gets dragged into the shit-show that is her life, he is so far out of his comfort zone! I felt a teensy bit badly for X, but the escapades and criminal activity that these two embark on was just too hilarious to feel THAT badly for X.
Lucy and X are such beautifully flawed characters, but bring out the best in one another in such a pure way that I immediately fell in love with them both. For as much as she shakes up his organized, structured life, he grounds her in a way that she so desperately needs and has never had. (And therein lies my one complaint about this book: I wish the authors would have fleshed-out Lucy’s backstory more, because I felt like knowing more about her lack of family and why she had the upbringing she did would have provided a better insight to her current predicaments and behaviors.)
Hooked is a darker romance than the other books I’ve read by Sorenson (her Bachelors Of The Ridge Series), and had a lighter feel than the Barbetti books I’ve read. There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments in Hooked, so I’d still consider this a romcom.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
to one and a mom to two humans and one cat. I have a deep and abiding love for
nachos – especially the kind with the liquid cheese, like from Taco Bell
(sorry). I run on less than four hours of sleep thanks to copious amounts of
Diet Coke. (Note: this paragraph is not sponsored by anyone except my hungry
stomach.)
brat, I grew up all over the country, from California and up the east coast
from Florida to New England and Colorado. I currently live in Idaho, where we
have lots of potatoes and windmills.
character-driven contemporary romance novels, heavy on the emotional
connection. I LOVE love. I love writing about broken characters who find their
soul mates.
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