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You are here: Home / Contemporary Romance / Review: Wild Heat by Lucy Monroe

Review: Wild Heat by Lucy Monroe

May 8, 2015 by Mandi

wildheatWild Heat by Lucy Monroe (Northern Fire #1)
Released: April 28, 2015
Contemporary Romance
Forever

Reviewed by Mandi

Kitty is returning to her hometown after a horribly abusive marriage and dealing with an eating disorder.  Deciding to help her aunt and her aunt’s two good friends help run their bed and breakfast, Kitty is ready for this new direction in her life. What she isn’t ready for is to see her first crush and her former best friend, Tack.

Tack runs a tour company for all of the cruise ships that stop in his Alaskan town. When Kitty left all those years ago, she cut off Tack, and he still holds resentment over it. He is shocked when she comes back to town, and is also shocked to hear the hardships she has had to endure.

A quick set-up for this book, but there is not a lot that happens in this one so I don’t have a lot to say.  At the beginning of the book, I think Kitty’s trials over her ex-husband and eating disorder are addressed well. You want her to find peace yet she hasn’t miraculously recovered from her harrowing past.  And she has to face her former crush and friend and the awkwardness that comes with that.

And after that, there just isn’t anything that happens in this book. I was bored. I didn’t want to be – I was interested in an Alaska setting and a town that docks cruise ships – but we don’t get to see a lot of the town. I was interested in Kitty’s three elderly aunts – but they weren’t engaging. It’s just Kitty and Tack – yes they reunite and learn about each other’s lives for the time she was gone, but that’s it. And their romance never felt warm to me. I think Tack wanted to be the protector and caregiver to make Kitty as  they healthy as she could be, but instead he came across pushy to me. Withholding sex until she eats. And not being romantic but bossy and pushy and grouchy – and not the sexy kind.

The sex didn’t work for me either. Too many creative words distracted from what was really going on.

A miss for me.

Rating: D

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