This book was extremely entertaining, fun to read and sexy as all get out but it also had heart and I very much enjoyed reading it. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Fashion student Lacey Weston is desperate to leave the city and go home to Jumbuck Springs. Her three older brothers are adamant she’s not. They made a death bed promise to their mother that Lacey would stay the distance at design school and Ethan, the oldest, takes this responsibility very seriously. But Lacey is deeply homesick and determined not to be dissuaded again. She’s also impulsive enough to try anything – even faking a pregnancy.
Ex-cop turned mechanic, Cooper Grainger – one of Ethan’s oldest friends – agrees to watch out for Lacey in the city even though he has a history with her he’d rather forget. How hard could it be, right? But a couple of years later, Coop is over pulling Lacey out of scrapes and cleaning up her messes as she tries to outrun her grief and sense of dislocation. He takes her back to Jumbuck Springs so she can persuade her brothers to let her come home. But things don’t go according to plan. Before Coop knows it Lacey’s pregnant and he’s putting his hand up as the fake baby daddy, filling in for the town mechanic and moving in with her at the local pub.
Lacey is thrilled to have won a reprieve but nothing about the situation sits well with Coop. Least of all having sweet little Lacey Weston as his new roomie…
Review copy provided for an honest review
Some Girls Do by Amy Andrews was a delightful and fantastic story and one of the things I loved 
most was that this author didn’t Americanize her very Australian characters or the story too much thus giving me the opportunity to learn even more fun and colorful Aussie language. This book takes place mostly in the outback with a few chapters in a couple of the larger cities in Australia. As the first book in a series we are introduced to a whole lot of characters but we never lost focus of the main characters or their crazy plight. This book was extremely entertaining, fun to read and sexy as all get out but it also had heart and I very much enjoyed reading it.
Cooper and Lacey meet and have one really explosive night and she disappears leaving him somewhat disappointed until a week later when they meet again under different circumstances and he realizes he slept with his ex-partner and friend’s much younger and just barely legal sister who he was just coerced into “watching after” while she’s in town at design school. A year and a half later, Coop finds himself once again under Lacey’s spell for a completely different reason and their life becomes one complication after the other.
Cooper is one of those really good guy heroes that I simply can’t get enough of. Oh he’s sexy as hell and he knows his way around the bedroom, but he’s also someone who will do anything for a friend despite how it affects him. The fact that he has never gotten over his one night with Lacey puts him at a big disadvantage because he really is ready to go the extra mile to help her in any way.
At first I really wasn’t sure about Lacey and while I didn’t hate her I didn’t love her either, but she seriously grew on me as the book went on. I began to understand how devastated her mother’s death was to her and what she perceived as her brothers abandoning her. She acted out and did things like pick up strange men in bars (like Coop) and when she realized she had really messed up her life she asked Coop to take her home and to have her back when she told her family she was there to stay for awhile, she just had no idea how much her move would affect him. The thing is once she was home, I think we really began to see the true Lacey and she wasn’t all that different from Cooper; she was happy to pitch in and help others and loved being a part of her small community again.
For a good part of this story these two spent a lot of time together but not time as a couple but during that time they got to know one another a little better. Lacey saw what a great guy Cooper was and while he drove her crazy by not giving in to his attraction for her; she admired the fact that he was an honorable guy. Cooper watched Lacey blossom into a confidant woman and one who was finally happy and settled. Their admiration for each other grew by leaps and bounds and that eventually spilled over into some hot and sexy times. While it was evident they both had pretty strong feelings for each other Cooper also knew that because she was so much younger there would come a time he would have to let her live her dreams and that really spoke of his character.
I loved these two together from the start and I enjoyed watching them through the roller coaster ride of their time together including the very happy ending for both of them. Fun, enticing and sensual you don’t want to miss Some Girls Do, the first story in Amy Andrews Outback Heat series.
Thanks for the review Slick