ISBN-10: 0425250806
ISBN-13: 978-0425250808
Publisher: Penguin Group
Line: Berkley
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Pages: 320
Retail Price: 7.99
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Heat Level: Sensual/Hot
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She’s holding tight. He’s hanging loose.
Eve Monroe is a stock-car PR pro who puts her career first—until an on-track wardrobe malfunction reveals more than the sexy smile of her race-car brother’s jack-man, Nolan Ford. The video’s become an internet sensation, and it’s Eve’s job to calm the sponsors and put a spin on the unexpected exposure. It may be purely a public relations job, but now that Eve’s seen what’s under Nolan’s crew suit, it’s gotten a little personal—and after a few dates she has Nolan pretty revved up. If only she’d learn to relax and enjoy it…
And they both have the same drive.
Nolan’s sure that the spontaneous birthday bash he’s throwing for Eve in Las Vegas should loosen her up. It does more than that. Somewhere between cocktails and a smoking-hot motel-room derby, Eve and Nolan wake up hitched, thanks to a post-sex-high detour to a Vegas chapel. A hangover marriage to a virtual stranger isn’t good for anyone’s image, so Eve plans to play the happy wife long enough to satisfy the press, and then quietly part ways. Now all she has to do is convince her new personal jack-man. But Nolan has plans of his own…
Review
The latest installment in the Fast Track series by Erin McCarthy is a fun ride with a cranky heroine and her easy going hero.
Eve Monroe is unhappy and doesn’t even realize it until her brother’s jackman, Nolan Ford, points it out to her. Nolan makes it his mission to get the uptight Eve to let loose and have fun, but even he never imagined where their time together would lead…to happily ever after.
Eve is such a cranky character that it is hard to like her. She is brash and upfront with her opinions to the point of being flat out rude to people. She is deeply unhappy with her life and where she is both professionally and personally. I really enjoyed the changes she undergoes throughout the book as she loosens up and learns to live again, but the changes that happen at the end of the book seemed too radical. She is uptight until almost the very end and then she changes her entire life. I think it would have been more believable if the change had evolved slower and seemed more organic to what was going on in Eve’s life and her relationship with Nolan.
Nolan is a fun character. He is a glass half-full kind of guy and the complete opposite of Eve. I love the way he worked to bring out her fun side. Even though he is so positive, Nolan also has a very vulnerable side that doesn’t quite believe Eve could be happy with him. I love that he would do something that made him uncomfortable in order to make her happy. He gives her a surprise birthday party; even though everyone tells him she will hate it, because he knows that it will make her happy and show how much the people in her life care about her.
The previous couples from the Fast Track series are present in this book, especially Eve’s siblings – Elec and Evan. It’s nice to revisit those characters and see that they are still happily in love.
The writing is what readers have come to expect from McCarthy, full of fun dialogue and steamy sex scenes. One think I didn’t enjoy about the sex scenes was the dirty talk. It didn’t feel sexy, it felt forced. Some of the phrases used and descriptive words didn’t match the emotional connection of the characters and took someone away from the romance of the story.
Reviewed by Carrie