Contemporary Romance
What Goodreads says:
"Perfect
for readers of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson, this sizzling
romance tells the story of a sexy small-town mayor and a notorious “bad girl,”
who discover that home really is where the heart is.
Monica
Appleby is a woman with a reputation. Once she was America’s teenage “Wild
Child,” with her own reality TV show. Now she’s a successful author coming home
to Bishop, Arkansas, to pen the juicy follow-up to her tell-all autobiography.
Problem is, the hottest man in town wants her gone. Mayor Jackson Davies is
trying to convince a cookie giant to move its headquarters to his crumbling
community, and Monica’s presence is just too . . . unwholesome for business.
But the desire in his eyes sends a very different message: Stay, at least for a
while.
Jackson
needs this cookie deal to go through. His town is dying and this may be its
last shot. Monica is a distraction proving too sweet, too inviting—and completely
beyond his control. With every kiss he can taste her loneliness, her regrets,
and her longing. Soon their uncontrollable attraction is causing all kinds of
drama. But when two lost hearts take a surprise detour onto the bumpy road of
unexpected love, it can only lead someplace wonderful.
“Molly O’Keefe is a unique,
not-to-be-missed voice in romantic fiction.”—New York Times bestselling author
Susan Andersen."
I have read several of Molly
O’Keefe’s books and enjoyed them.
The previous books have an offbeat set of locations and different
shape-changer characters. Wild
Child has none of those. It is set
in a fictional small town in Arkansas
(That is what caught my eye first as I live in Arkansas).
The two main characters have major
problems. Monica is the Wild
Child, a identity she can’t seem to get rid of. She has come back to Bishop to research a book about her
Father’s death and plans to leave as soon as her research is done. The town mayor, Jackson, came back to
Bishop to raise his sister after both of their parents were killed. He wants to be anywhere but Bishop and
lives for the day he can leave.
The story revolves around both of
their problems and the solutions they try. There are some interesting side characters in the
story. There was some tension
between Monica and Jackson but it seems to drag on. There was a lot of sex but that got old fast. The HEA was different but not that
exciting. The Cookie Factory Story
was OK but even that was not enough to hold my attention.
Molly O’Keefe does good writing but
I felt that this story was not her best.
All in all a well written story that just did not catch my attention
like I expected it too.
Bantam published Wild Child by
Molly O”Keefe in 2013.
I received an ARC of Wild Child from Netgalley.
No comments:
Post a Comment