I wanted to love this book so much; I wanted to find another family based series I could dive into, but sadly Wild Steamy Hook-Up was a let-down. ~ Slick – Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Synopsis:
It was never my plan to wake up in a Vegas hotel room as Dominic Mancini’s WIFE. The man has brought me nothing but heartache since I was sixteen.
At least we agree on one thing—a quickie annulment and we can both get on with our lives. I can go back to teaching little girls to dance and he can go back to making millions on Wall Street.
But sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. It follows you right into an ambush by your Italian Mamas who deliver Oscar-worthy performances when heaping on the guilt.
So, we do what any good Italian kids would do. We secretly agree to pretend to give marriage a try.
But our easy solution morphs into a convoluted mess and leaves us wondering—is it safe to bet on each other?
This is one of those books that I’m torn over, in some respects I really loved it and in others not so much. Look, I’m new to the Piper Rayne bandwagon, I’m hooked on The Baliey’s series and thought I’d give this series a try, and while I loved the family dynamics of it, the romance not so much.
I’ll admit I always wanted to be a part of a big Italian family so much so, I asked my parents often if they were sure they took the right baby home from the hospital so I loved the Mancini family and they way they enveloped Valentina’s family into their own. The sibling/cousin craziness, the Italian ma’s, the nosey, well meaning nudges, all of it, I loved every minute of it. What I didn’t love was Dominic and Valentina who so obviously belonged together spending so much time playing the “I love him/her game, but I can’t trust him/her to stay in my life.” These are not young adults, they are 35 years old so they should be way past the age in which they’ve learned to communicate effectively. It is pretty sad that Valentina’s 16 year old son communicates better than they do. I was really frustrated by their on again, off again, on again, off again relationship that I got to a point where I didn’t really care anymore. I was tired of it, I began to think they were seriously better off apart. Instead of this being a book where two people who so obviously belong together figure it out and we see that progression, it was all about the drama of the past and not near enough of the present and future.
I wanted to love this book so much; I wanted to find another family based series I could dive into, but sadly Wild Steamy Hook-Up was a let-down.
