Start Me Up
by:
Victoria Dahl (author)
Lori had always planned to get out of tiny Tumble Creek, Colorado, but when her late dad left her his beloved auto body shop, she'd stayed. Now, according to her crazy best friend, Molly, what Lori needs is some excitement, in the form of hot, no-strings-attached sex…and lots of it.Quinn Jennings...
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Lori had always planned to get out of tiny Tumble Creek, Colorado, but when her late dad left her his beloved auto body shop, she'd stayed. Now, according to her crazy best friend, Molly, what Lori needs is some excitement, in the form of hot, no-strings-attached sex…and lots of it.Quinn Jennings has buildings on the brain—not love and romance. A serious architect, he's delighted to discover that Lori is willing to skip dating protocols and head straight for the sheets. And aided by the steamy books on Lori's bedside table, he's busy indulging both of their wildest fantasies. But when life in Tumble Creek takes a dangerous turn for Lori, Quinn's protective instincts kick in.Suddenly he cares. More than either of them ever expected….
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780373773909 (0373773900)
ASIN: 0373773900
Publish date: 2009-07-01
Publisher: HQN Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Erotica,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Suspense,
Fiction
Not as great as the first Tumble Creek book (mainly because I thought Lori was the teeniest bit of a bitch and she never really apologizes for it. All the blame gets shifted to Quinn's shoulders when it takes two and all that), but I didn't hate it.
Not as great as the first Tumble Creek book (mainly because I thought Lori was the teeniest bit of a bitch and she never really apologizes for it. All the blame gets shifted to Quinn's shoulders when it takes two and all that), but I didn't hate it.
I think I liked this one better than the first one. Lori was a much more well rounded character. It wasn't all sex sex sex with her. She had interests and work that had nothing to do with it. I could even understand her reason for wanting a fling and nothing more. Something that usually annoys me. A...
Start Me Up is the best of the series, in my opinion. Lori Love's tragic history makes her one of the most fully realized characters I've come across in contemporary romance in a while. She was a gifted college student, on the brink of accomplishing her dreams to travel well beyond her roots in Tumb...
This was my first contemporary by Victoria Dahl and it was sexy (oh so sexy!!) and sweet. The first 100 pages were a little slow for me but then it got going. Quinn was the initially distracted then morphs into laser-focused-on-the-heroine hero. Loved that. He was great. I enjoyed the "realness" of ...