5 Smooches!

Synopsis

From the NYT Bestselling author of MISTER O, comes a hot and hilarious new standalone…
Here’s what you need to know about me — I’m well-off, well-hung and quick with a joke. Women like a guy who makes them laugh—and I don’t mean at the size of his d*ck. No, they want their funny with a side of huge… not to mention loyal. I’ve got all that plus a big bank account, thanks to my booming construction business. Yup. I know how to use all my tools.

Enter Natalie. Hot, sexy, smart, and my new assistant. Which makes her totally off limits… 

Hey, I’m a good guy. Really. I do my best to stay far away from the kind of temptation she brings to work.

Until one night in Vegas… 

Yeah, you’ve heard this one before. Bad news on the business front, drowning our sorrows in a few too many Harvey Wallbangers, and then I’m banging her. In my hotel room. In her hotel room. Behind the Titanic slot machine at the Flamingo (don’t ask). And before I can make her say “Oh God right there YES!” one more time, we’re both saying yes—the big yes—at a roadside chapel in front of a guy in press-on sideburns and a shiny gold leisure suit.

But it turns out what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. And now, my dick doesn’t stay in my pants when she’s around. I try to resist. Honest. But the more we try to keep our hands to ourselves, the more we end up naked again, and the more time I want to spend with her fully clothed, too.

The question now is…do I take this woman to be my ex-wife?

REVIEW

Having had the pleasure of first reading Lauren Blakely’s Big Rock and Mister O, I immediately put Well Hung at the top of my must-read/want-this-now list. Flirtatious, funny and feverishly hot, I adored absolutely everything about this standalone story. It kept me smiling, it kept me engaged, and I gobbled up every single word of this fabulously well written romantic comedy.

“The golden rule is this—you can bang the clients, but you can’t ever screw your assistant.”

What I loved most about this book was that it was written exclusively from the male hero’s point of view. Ms. Blakely has this incredibly insightful, innate way of getting in these guys’ heads and giving her readers their thoughts, feelings and emotions with nail-on-the-head accuracy. Experiencing everything that Wyatt was thinking and feeling kept me tapping my Kindle screen furiously. I loved every delectable word, thought and feeling that made its way through poor, confused Wyatt’s head. I’ve seen the male POV done before, but let me tell you that no one—NO ONE—does it quite like Lauren Blakely does and certainly not with the same authenticity and truthfulness that she delivers.

“Please, please, please let the horny aliens inhabit the planet of another man’s mind today.”

Mister O fans will recall that Wyatt is Nick’s twin brother. Wyatt is a good guy, or at least he’s trying like hell to be one. When he met Natalie, who is Charlotte’s (from Big Rock) sister, there was an instant mutual attraction. She, however, proposes a work relationship that he just can’t pass up. Wyatt’s hard-learned lessons in never mixing business and pleasure firmly place Natalie in the work-zone once her employment with him began. He may be the brawn behind this operation, but Natalie’s definitely the brains, and it’s been nothing short professional perfection in the office. Pushing his feelings aside hasn’t been easy, though, so it’s been six months of flirting, fantasizing and burning build up for both of them. When a valuable client hires them for a special project in Sin City, they learn the hard way that what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.

“Note to self: Try to find clarity in the next few hours.”

We go through a carnival ride’s worth of twisting, turning, tilting, tumultuous emotions right along with Wyatt as he tries to pump the brakes on the confusing, chaotic contemplations churning through him. The trouble is that the man is one part paranoid guy, one part polite good guy and one part horny male, and all those parts equal one dude with a serious dilemma. Natalie is the answer to all of his office woes, wielding her organizational skills like a weapon to keep him in line and on time, she has helped to make his business better than ever. Not to mention that she’s smart, she’s savvy, and she’s keeps the place running with Swiss watch precision. On top of all that, she’s fun, she’s flirty, she’s sexy and she’s the drop-dead gorgeous, girl-next-door of his dreams. Unfortunately, Wyatt’s previous history with women who seemed like dreams come true but turned out to be his worst nightmares is not something he soon forgets.

“I want us to keep riding the rollercoaster. To get on it over and over again. To keep climbing, and falling, and flipping upside-down, even if it makes us sick or crazy. I want to feel all the joy and exhilaration with you. The ups and downs. Because loving you is some kind of wild ride, and I don’t want it to stop.”

In addition to the hilarity of Wyatt’s private observations, readers are also treated to a hefty dose of brilliant banter. Wyatt’s stuck in between the proverbial rock and a hard place – he knows he needs Natalie at work and he’s slowly realizing he needs her in his life, too. He’s just so wary, so cautious, so unsure, and it takes him a bit of time to wrap his head around what he’s feeling and what is right there for him. Their relationship was every bit of the rollercoaster ride that Ms. Blakely laid it out to be. Full of stomach-dipping lows and heart-thumping highs, when the ride ends will Wyatt feel exhilarated or sick?

“They don’t call it a joyride for nothing.”

The more I read from Lauren Blakely, the more impressed I become. She just has this way of telling a story that is uniquely hers and it never fails to make my heart happy. A superbly executed romantic comedy, Well Hung delivers exactly what fans of this genre want: well-developed characters, a smoking-hot romance, fantastic back and forth bantering and enough of that ‘will they or won’t they’ push and pull. 5 smooches from me!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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