(could be read as a standalone)
My rating: 3.5 stars
Synopsis from GR:
For Erin Connelly, being a good girl isn’t such a bad thing. She’s working her dream job at a Boston art gallery and staying out of trouble, which is more than she can say for her deadbeat mom. Unfortunately, her mother’s latest misadventure lands her in the clutches of a Mexican drug lord. Now the only person who can save her is the one man Erin has no business asking for help: the sexy-as-sin army ranger who just so happens to be her former high school sweetheart.
Zander James is no gentleman—and no officer, either, thanks to Erin. Four years ago, she made a call that terminated his highest aspirations . . . and their relationship. He’s never forgiven her, but when he learns that Erin’s embarking on a half-baked rescue mission, he sure as hell can’t let her go alone. Now, with a treacherous enemy lying in wait, the electrifying tension between them may just be Zander’s undoing. Because while he may be able to keep Erin alive, he can’t promise to keep his hands off her.
*ARC courtesy of Netgalley and Random House Publishing*
The death of Zander's father is the chance for Erin to reconnect with him and to ask him for advice on a difficult situation she has to deal with. So she took it. But it's not so simple for Erin to face Zander given how it ended between them and how she still feel for him! Zander, for his part, is still full of anger for Erin's betrayal four years ago but he can't deny he still very attracted to her. When Erin starts asking him strange questions about contraband and guns, Zander also can't help himself for feeling way more protective of her than he should and so he decides to follow her in whatever dangerous mission she had put her mind on to accomplish. And we all know what happens when you mix dangerous situations, an alpha male worth his name and pent up emotions between that alpha male and his damsel in distress....
First of all, I'd like to point out that Erin is really not a "damsel in distress": she's on the other hand a quite strong and steady woman, one who had to face many bad situations on her own. I liked her right from the start! Zander, though, is an alpha male through and through. But the good kind of alpha male (really, trust me!)...how could I not like him?!
As a matter of fact if I had to choose the thing I liked the most about Want It that would be Erin & Zander! Both of them!
I liked them as individuals, but I liked them even more when they were together. They had great chemistry and it showed when they were intimate with each other (there are some HOT scenes in the book to look forward -or back- to).
The storyline about Erin's mother and her rescuing sort of fell in second place to me (as it probably should be) but I felt that was true for the author also. Let's put it this way: there's a point in the story where the author should have probably explained a little more about the whys and hows Erin's mother fall in that situation. And also the resolution of that same situation wasn't exactly examined in depth. As I said, it didn't bother me much since I was focused more on other things, but some readers could be annoyed by this so I felt it should be pointed out.
In the end, this was a 3.5 stars read for me. I definitively enjoyed it!
I'd like, at last, to thank the author for the opportunity to read the ARC of her book for free and I hope she appreciates my honest review
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