4 Smooches!
Synopsis
Twenty-year-old Caitlyn McCoe likes logic, cake and breaking a sweat. In that order. What she doesn’t like is the fact that her manipulative ex, Dominic, has crawled out of the woodwork after their breakup last summer. She needs to concentrate on passing her business degree, not telling him to get lost. But fantasising about Fist Candy–the boxer she loves to watch at the gym, where she works–is excellent escapism. He’s beautiful, untouchable…and safe.
Until he’s her new co-worker. And then he’s not safe at all.
Art Lyons was a rising star on the boxing circuit and a brilliant student. Then he dropped out, disappeared, and has just resurfaced as the new sports massage therapist at Caitlyn’s gym. He doesn’t want to talk about why he’s no longer at uni; he doesn’t want to explain the tattooed slashes across his hip.
But he’s troubled by the connection he feels between the punch bag and the brush of a lover’s fingers. He wants to use his hands to heal, not hurt. Caitlyn clams up when her friends go to hug her; after Dominic, something changed beneath her skin, twists the things she feels. If Art can find a way to reach beyond that, he could help her. She could heal him.
That’s if they don’t break each other first…
Review
This book started a bit slow for me, and then I realized it was a New Adult and that
explained why they so slowly eased into the relationship. As young, broken people, they
even took a long time to ease into a simple kiss. They both have a past they are less than
proud of or happy with. Cait has no self esteem and was with Dominic for a long time,
and Dominic was a mental abuser. He didn’t love her, he showed no affection and gave
her such doubts about herself. Art’s past is less than wonderful and he is now dealing with
that but even more, he is dealing with how he can tell Cait about his past.
Cait first sees Art in the boxing gym, taking his frustrations out on a punching bag,
and she is caught up in all that is Art. But she never imagined they would be working
together just a week later. He shows interest right away, but she doesn’t see it for what it
is. Interest. Her self esteem is so bad that she cant even see his genuine interest. And he
is so afraid to make a move on her, because she is it for him, he just knows, and he wants
it to be perfect, even their first kiss.
The banter better Cait and Art, is amazing, funny, sweet and real. He falls for her right
away, and she falls for him as well. It does take forever, almost half the book before they
even get to their first kiss, but then in the second half of the books, sparks are flying. The
sex scenes are very well written and hot hot hot. I absolutely adore how they interact. Art’s
brother Aiden is hysterical, and Cait has a good group of friends at her back.
The only real issue for me was that a lot of the banter was with British slang, and I had to
look up the words to know what some meant, being as I am not British.
I can appreciate how the author handled a very sensitive issue in this storyline (not
wanting to give a spoiler so you’ll have to read the book to find out the issue). She did a
fine job with it and didn’t turn it into a three ring circus like I have seen with this in the
past. I enjoyed this book and would absolutely recommend it.
Traci
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