Cop a Feel by Robyn Peterman (Handcuffs and Happily Ever After #3)
Released: June 1, 2014
Contemporary Romance
Kensington

Reviewed by May

“God help the man who tries to tame you.” He laughed and removed several sheets from the folder.

“No man will ever tame me,” I told him confidently. “Romance is for sissies.”

Candy has been engaging in an anonymous affair for a year, but now she’s done with that and she’s focusing on her job and herself. The problem is… her job is taking a turn for the worse with her being put on a bodyguard gig and her mind being unable to stop thinking of the man she’s been spending so many hot nights with.

Luke has been waiting for Candy to call him once again, and when he is able to help out on her current case he jumps at the chance to be her partner and try to see if what they have will work in the real world. Or rather, as real of a world as this author will allow her smack talking, cuss happy, wild band of characters.

This story is set in a world set up in the previous two novels, but it stands alone nicely. The only thing is that some of the cameos by past characters and jokes might not make as much sense to someone who is starting here. I still think it would work and it was the silliest contemporary romance I’ve read in quite some time.

A zing of pure delight shot through me as I realized I was holding hands with a guy who still thougth I was hot after I’d lodged another guy’s nuts into his esophagus.

Candy is a tough woman. She’s been through a lot but she also has a very physically and mentally demanding job as a DEA agent. The fact that she stumbled across the exact man of her dreams and has been having anonymous sex with him for a year only to discover he is her one and only? Well that was a real fun story to read.

“I want to fuck you so bad right now it’s not funny. Every man that looks at you tonight will want the same thing and that makes me insane. You are a walking wet dream and you belong to me. You got a problem with that?”

“I should, you arrogant pig, but I just can’t think of it right now.”

The chemistry between this couple was phenomenal and the contributions by some of her supporting characters were much more interesting and gave the story more depth than the previous book. Overall, I really enjoyed this one and I’m going to recommend to someone who wants a very light, silly, over the top and plenty of swearing and potty humor type comedic (contemporary) romance.

“You know the rules. You can’t expose your penis. Ever.”

As a reader I do wish for a few things. First that it had been explained how the affair even got started in the first place considering how cautious these two characters are. The second is that it bothered me that this romance convention that they have to attend is all people in leather and chains.

“Society of Contemporary Romance Erotic Writers. Screw. You get it?”

It didn’t add to the story and any time it was mentioned it annoyed me. I believe the author is just being silly here – but it ties into my final complaint about this book.

I wish more heartfelt moments had been added to balance the jokes and goofiness. There were no tender moments and that bummed me out because I felt like it would have added to the richness, depth, and overall quality of the read. It was either sexy time or jokes time and I wanted something a bit more. There was some potential here that I feel was not maximized and I wish it had been.

Overall, this book was a fun time and if you’re looking for something as I have described and if the quotes I’ve included appeal to you then yes I would recommend checking it out.

Grade: B

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