I loved the characters, loved the storyline and found myself laughing out loud. ~ Leigh, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
Sometimes it feels good to be a little bad.
Callie has found the perfect job. As nanny for a single dad and his adorable daughter, she can pay off her student loans and live in a nice house in the heart of Chicago. There’s just one problem-her new boss. Definitely no dad bod here. Just six-plus feet of raw, sexual energy. Whoever heard of a dad being so hot?
From the sparkle in his daughter’s eyes, Aaron can see that hiring Callie was a good decision. But Callie’s breathtaking smile and long legs have him thinking about his own needs. Aaron knows it’s a bad idea to get involved with the nanny, but it’s been years since anyone has captivated him like Callie.
When living under the same roof proves too tempting to resist, Callie and Aaron discover a mind-blowing passion unlike anything either has experienced. But with a curious child and a nosy family in the mix, their secret, no-strings fling soon turns into a twisted, tangled knot . . .
Review copy given with no expectations
I’m torn in how I felt about this book. I both enjoyed it and felt frustrated by it, but it didn’t leave me with the feeling of satisfaction when I was done that I longed to feel.
That is not to say that I didn’t enjoy myself. I loved the characters, loved the storyline and found myself laughing out loud at some of the vivid descriptions. I just couldn’t read the characterization of a past boyfriend being like a “Saint Bernard at a water fountain” during oral sex without sorting indelicately. Nor can I look at a Georgia O’Keefe painting the same way again after reading another comparison. But while I loved all of the elements of the story, they didn’t come together the way I wanted them to.
Aaron was the sexy, hot dad, hiring a nanny to care for his daughter and ultimately falling in love with her. Although it sounds like a cliché, the circumstances didn’t feel tawdry or wrong (not that tawdry and wrong isn’t hot as well!) and I genuinely wanted them to get together. Callie was strong, she was not being taken advantage of, and it was a circumstance of two consenting adults making a choice for what they both felt in their hearts.
The problem was that I didn’t feel the connection between them the way I wanted to. The pull was there, but I felt at any moment that one of them would walk away. They both seemed so scared that it would fall apart that I couldn’t relax into the relationship. I felt that it was too fragile for the entire book and that so much of the growth of emotions was glossed over. I wanted a deeper connection than I actually felt.
In addition, the last quarter of the book didn’t satisfy me the way I wanted it to. Without giving away the plot, this is a HEA. But personally I wanted more than I got.
This was my first book by Melissa Merino and I will absolutely check her out again. Her story was cute and her characters were engaging and endearing. I just wanted a different progression of the relationship than I got here, and I think that’s on me, not the author.
Thanks Leigh for the review