Search - Start Me Up (Tumble Creek, Bk 2)

I enjoyed this a great deal. The characters are played somewhat against type. She's a mechanic, he's an architect. I'm not a big fan of teeny tiny heroines but I just ignored that most of the time. He was the clincher though. Not a total alpha hero, but he was just so funny the way he'd get engrossed in his work and forget everything including dates. I like how the author showed her ability to work a story outside the traditional box with the way the heroine accepted this about him and found ways to work around it. I'm not a big historical fan, but I'll read Ms. Dahl's contemporaries.

Just discovered this author & will have to look for more of her books. Loved the story, very well written. Romance plus chuckles.

The story of a woman that was thrown some curves after she started college. Now that she no longer has the ties to her home town of Tumble Creek why is she still stuck there instead of moving on with her life. Enter Quinn Jennings that opens up her world.

Interesting

After reading "Talk Me Down" I thought I was going to love this book. I mean, what is there not to love? Lori was such a cool character in "Talk Me Down." Unfortunately it didn't work out that way. It's ironic because Molly (from "Talk Me Down)is usally someone I would love to hate but I ended up adoring her (even in this book I was hoping to catch more glimpses of her). Lori is everything I would love in a character but I ended up not liking her very much.

The book itself was okay. There are some steamy scenes and I do like the chemistry between Quinn (Molly's brother) and Lori. There was that little bit of mystery thrown in and it was fun. It can be a standalone book so you don't really have to read the first one if you don't want to. Overall though I found it too similar to "Talk Me Down" in themes. (In fact, the third book also have the theme of girl wants a fling but it turns into something more). So it was a little bit of a disappointment for me in that aspect because I wanted something a little different.

As for the characters I found Quinn absolutely adorable even though he wasn't a high handed alpha. He kept my interst in the book. Lori's self-esteem (I'm not good enough for him attitude) was overdone. I don't mind a little bit of it but it was nonstop. It made me want to scream, "GET OVER IT!" at her.

It was a funny book and decent enough to read but it didn't dazzle me like the first one.

Very charming and entertaining book..Laugh out Loud type of of book..good for a relaxing on a raining day :-)