I don't know if I was too tired when I read this book... but unfortunately, I was disappointed. I liked it, but, I think my expectations were too high for this book. I like a lot of the other "Bad Boy" anthologies a lot more.
Anytime, Anywhere
I was expecting a lot from Robin MacNamara's story - but I think this book was a good example of how page limits and requirements can really hurt a book. I felt that the story was underdeveloped, rushed, and incomplete. There wasn't any emotional connection between Robin and Jon Amendola. She's had a crush on him for something like seventeen years (actually, the story seems similar to Emilie's A Passionate Proposal!) - but this has no real emotional connection. Jon tries to resist Robin because she's his best friend's baby sister. He goes off to a cabin to get his head back in the right place after an awful trial. Of course there's some violent psychotic person after them... and the villian was shocking but... the book just didn't work for me as well as Mac's did.
After the Lovin'
I think this might be my favorite of the anthology - or, I liked this and the next equally. Tommi Smith finds herself in a situation which requires her to go into hiding. Unfortunately, when she asks a friend for help, he sends her to his younger brother, Mac Fleming, who has aways had it out for her.
She discovers that he's grown up a lot, and that they're more compatible than they thought... in a lot of ways. [And of course there's someone psychotic out to get her.]
Deal with the Devil
Ellie McMann DeLuca and Max DeLuca are thrown together again as a result of circumstance. However, she wants some closure, and they decide on a business deal, of sorts. She has shares he wants, and for her to sign them over, she wants him to give her one night. He counters with the offer of seven nights -and really, how can a girl refuse?
But it's not so much fun when Max's interfering exgirlfriend who can't take no for an answer comes in. Or Ellie's stalker...
Overall, a good book, but not as great as I was expecting.
