Want a gritty but romantic read? I recommend this 100%!
I was pleasantly surprised to find out this is standalone but it includes characters from a previous book that I read by Nicole Snow- Still Not Over You! I definitely recommend reading this book, it has everything that you want, enemies to lovers, great steamy sex reads, gritty story line, interesting characters, and falling hard for that one person in your life.
Book Blurb via Amazon
No way. No how. Never.
And if he calls me darlin’ one more time…
He pushes buttons I didn’t even know I had.
Gabe freaking Barin.
Fire to my ice. Walking mountain. Growly, alpha, and achingly kind.
Last man on earth I want in my life.
But I’ve got three heaping problems:
1. My baby niece is missing.
2. Some psycho just slashed up my car.
3. My boss made Gabe my personal protector.
I’m a big girl in a tiny package. Sharp claws. Perfectly capable.
So I’ll ignore the jaw-dropping banter Goliath drops.
I’ll ignore how his Louisiana drawl melts damn near everything.
I’ll ignore how he’s five times my size.
I’ll even ignore the night hate gets complicated.
Then our battle moves between the sheets.
Gabe gives me a hundred new toe-curling reasons to curse his name.
But there’s one nagging thing I can’t fight.
What if Gabe freaking Barin is more than a gorgeous bad habit?
What if he’s the hero I never knew I’d need?
My Thoughts:
As I mentioned before, I really enjoyed this book! We meet Skylar in Still Not Over You where she works with the hero, Landon, in that book in his security company. Skylar is tough as hell in the body of a tiny pixie. She is smart, resilient, and trying to find her young niece that has been taken right from underneath her nose. She is convinced that it is the baby’s no good daddy who took her so puts all of extra time in finding where he is and barely gets any sleep. When she starts getting threats, Landon decides to call up an old friend, Gabe, to protect her, which just makes Skylar even more aggravated!
Gabe is freaking sex on a stick and surprisingly a great guy. He had a tough life when he got out of the military and did not deal with it well, like at all! He turned to booze and women like most, but he also was into some shady stuff and basically became a mercenary. He is past that now though and is just trying to take each day at a time and enjoy everything that he does. When he meets Skylar it blows him away not only how beautiful she is, but how much she reminds him of himself. He sees someone who might could actually understand him, so he refuses to let her rebuffs affect him.
Gabe slowly inserts himself in Skylar’s life to where other than work and her niece missing, all she can think of is him. His quiet but calm stare while he is watching her ends up getting to her and how much she freaking wants him. It scares her, she doesn’t want to feel things things as guys have always just been a way to release a little steam for her. She is kinda a bi-atch to him a few times, which really hurts him. Seeing Gabe as this rock of a man but how she can affect his emotions rocks her to the core, but she has to concentrate on getting her niece back above everything else and tries to hide her feelings.
All in all, it is a beautiful love story that unfortunately takes place at the same time they are trying to find Skylar’s niece. I love both of the characters so much and they are exactly what each other needs. I like how Skylar finds out she CAN rely on others to help, it does not mean that makes her less of a person, but more of exactly the type of person that Gabe needs.
I 100% recommend reading this book, it is more than worth it!
It’s on Kindle Unlimited too, so do it!!!
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Thanks as always for checking out my thoughts,
Ga Books LoverX