ARC Review – His Best Friend’s Girl (In the Line of Duty #5) by Cathryn Fox

Sweet yet sexy with a good dose of complicated His Best Friend’s Girl was an entertaining story. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures 

Description:
With a little help-and a little kink-from her friend, she might just get her man. In the Line of Duty, Book 5 Skylar Redmond’s Sky Bar is regularly wall-to-wall hot soldiers. Yet she is alone-and getting tired of it. Forget about finding a man who’ll rock her world in the bedroom. She’ll settle for a guy who’s stable, kind and compassionate. Too bad that guy still sees her as the pigtailed girl from their youth, not the strong woman she is today. But maybe, with a little help, that’ll change. As an ex-military field ambulance technician, Matt James excels at performing under pressure. Pretending to be interested in Skylar to help her capture the attention of his best friend? Piece of cake-because he won’t be faking it. He’s been in love with her since their school yard days, but never pushed it. She deserves someone who can offer her more. A touch leads to a kiss, and a kiss to a night that throws a kink-or three-into Sky’s plan. Leaving her wondering if she’s going for the wrong man…and letting the right one slip through her fingers. Warning: This book contains a girl with her eyes on the wrong prize, and a half-cocked plan-but definitely not a half-cocked hero.

Review copy provided for an honest review

I’ve enjoyed Cathryn Fox’s In the Line of Duty series quite a lot and His Best Friend’s Girl is another fine offering in this series. Best friend’s since childhood Skylar Redmond and Matt James have been there for each other through life’s ups and downs but Skylar is ready for a relationship with someone and enlists the help of Matt not knowing he has had it bad for her for years. Sweet yet sexy with a good dose of complicated His Best Friend’s Girl was an entertaining story.

I’ll admit I’m not a fan of game playing in relationships, I think it kind of devalues the importance of honesty in a relationship, so I wasn’t thrilled when Skylar decided to take her friend’s advice and ask Matt to help make his other best friend Caleb notice her as a woman and not as the girl who has always been in his life. The thing is I really liked both Skylar and Matt and I flat out loved them together; yes there was an obvious closeness brought about by years of friendship, but it was also easy to see the admiration, trust and love between them even when they didn’t recognize it as being “in love” as opposed to the love they shared as friends.

Matt is one of those quiet but intense heroes and there was no denying that he would do anything for Sky and wanted her to be happy in all aspects of her life. It bothered me he didn’t think he was good enough for her and that he didn’t feel he could be honest with her about his feelings given their long standing friendship. I get that he didn’t want to ruin their friendship but I don’t think he realized that her being with someone else would possibly ruin it anyway.

Smart and sassy, it was easy to like Sky but I also wondered how she could be so clueless that Matt’s attention and his insistence on making sure she was always safe was just out of friendship. It was easy to see her confusion throughout this book especially after their first night together as more than friends.

I genuinely liked this story, but I also felt like Sky and Matt got cheated out of the romance of the relationship. They spent so much time talking about Caleb, dealing with Matt’s elderly grandmother and feeling awkward after being together physically that they really didn’t have time to enjoy each other as a couple in love instead of best friends who slept together “accidentally” twice. I’m also going to admit that I found it odd that Sky’s friend Kat was so focused on the fact she thought Matt would be kinky in the bedroom and the way it was discussed throughout this book because in honesty Matt wasn’t all that kinky and it just seemed unnecessary and strange the way it was brought up and continued throughout this book.

While not my favorite book in this series His Best Friend’s Girl was still an enjoyable story and getting to see many of the couple’s from previous books just added to the enjoyment.

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