Switch Me On is hot and sexy, but it needed a little more plot to make it a great story. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Some girls are made for the city
Successful voice-over artist Ari Madden has been planning her escape from Blackwater Inlet for years. In three more weeks, she’s making tracks—away from her cloying family, the gossip mill and her rep for rejecting local men who threaten her dreams. So it’s defnitely the wrong time for a total stranger to start delivering sexy shocks to her lady-circuits.
Bruno Brandt meant to unwind in his new getaway cabin in Podunkville, not get recharged by a red-hot woman with small-town blues. Outrageous, sultry Ari sparks him like a live wire, though, convincing him their fling will never be enough. He’s a world-class whiz when it comes to anything electric, but can he do what no man ever has before—jump-start Ari’s desire to commit?
Review copy provided for an honest review
This is one of those book that while I enjoyed it I didn’t love it and that was mainly due to the fact that I had a hard time connecting with the characters. However I will admit this is one sexy story with so much heat that the geeky hero would probably love to harness the electricity that flows between them. Yes, the hero is a geek but he is a sexy alpha geek and the heroine is kind of flighty and has a lot of personal issues that drive me a bit insane and this is one of those cases where I think a longer book with more time to fully develop the characters and delve into their relationship would have made it a better book.
Bruno Brandt thinks he “knows” the sexy as sin DJ at the bar he’s at because he sees her every day at the strip center near his office dressed in her boring work clothes, talking with her boring dentist boss but she looks different tonight and she looks like someone who is anything but boring and someone he’d like to know a whole lot better especially when she opens her mouth and speaks. Her voice affects him like no other and when he finally kisses her he knows together they will be electric.
Aribella (Ari) Madden is a commitment-phobe who can’t wait to get out of the small town she grew up in and not be the talk of the town. Airy admits she loves men, she just doesn’t want to keep them and she’s dated almost every available man in town. But when a new man sets his sights on her she’s worried he could be the one to derail her plans and that’s a risk she’s not willing to take.
Their encounters were smokin’ hot from the very first to the very last and I loved that they weren’t afraid to show their sexual sides to one another right off the bat. However when it became apparent there was a little more going on than just sex Ari drove me nuts with her stubbornness and her reluctance to let Bruno in at all. I give Bruno a lot of credit for figuring out what triggers Ari’s freak-outs and not letting her push him away once he realized he wanted more from the flighty woman. They have to sort through a lot of family craziness and while it was necessary for the reader to see it so we could better understand Ari, it also took away time from the romance that was needed to make it believable.
Switch Me On is hot and sexy, but it needed a little more plot to make it a great story.
3.5 Stars
Thanks for the review Slick