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Driving Her Wild (2013)

by Meg Maguire(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

series

Wilinski's

review 1: Meg Maguire/Cara McKenna really likes to write about blue-collar people. On the one hand, I find this very refreshing. On the other hand, boy, it is surprisingly emotionally stressful to read about a carpenter struggling to hold onto his house in an economic downturn! Premise: Heroine Steph is a retired pro MMA fighter who's turning 30, starting work as a trainer, and whose "meet a nice guy and settle down!" clock is ticking. Hero Patrick is a recently divorced master carpenter who can't get enough work as a carpenter and who therefore has to work as a (not very good) electrician. They like each other, but Steph thinks she ought to be pursuing a relationship with a professional man, not another cute Carhartt-wearing Boston boy. I thought this was cute. It's very well-writt... moreen, but like I said, it's actually kind of stressful (to me) to read about people having financial problems in escapist romance. And they were very realistic financial problems, so it's not like they'll magically vanish after the fade out, you know? I liked it, but I didn't LOVE it. (I also had a problem where now I have read three or four Maguire/McKenna books in a short period of time, so the things she repeats or defaults to, or phrases she re-uses, became very apparent to me. Very specific male and female body types: check. Man says "good" after sex: check. You see it, you can't unsee it!)
review 2: high -- very high -- 3skick mckenna delivers again -- very believable, distinctly drawn characters whose differences beautifully complement each other's. this stuff is funny, well paced, and VERY lovingly developed, and it pays off in a credible way with a happily-ever-after that leaves me feeling wistful and wanting to know more -- but in the BEST way wanting-to-know-more, because kick has written a solid ending, and it's not like i feel like she's left loose ends. i just don't want to leave her fictional universe by the time i've read the last page. high praise. she so wonderful. less

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