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text 2016-02-24 00:39
Instant Attraction (Wilder Book 1) by Jill Shalvis $1.99
Instant Attraction - Jill Shalvis

Get Wild. . .And Then Get Wilder. . .

Accountant Katie Kramer is a quintessential good girl--working hard, recycling diligently, all the while trying to ignore the feeling that she doesn't fit in anywhere. That's all she wants. Well, that--and amazing sex, and the kind of daredevil escapade she can look back on when she's crunching numbers in a dusty cubicle. Which explains why she just took a job in Wishful, California, working for Wilder Adventures and Expeditions. Waking up to find a magnificently built stranger towering over her bed--that part defies explanation. . .

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review 2015-11-25 04:49
Instant Attraction (Jill Shalvis)
Instant Attraction - Jill Shalvis
3.5 stars

I bought this one because I just finished Jill Shalvis' My Kind of Wonderful (advanced reader's copy) a couple of days ago and I wasn't ready to say goodbye to her characters just yet. I saw few of my friends gave this series positive reviews, alongside SBTB that gave it a B+ review.

Unfortunately, I found Instant Attraction to having quite similarities with My Kind of Wonderful, except that I found myself liking Cam Wilder a lot less than I did Hudson Kincaid. The problem with Cam, for me, was that he is having the "sorry-for-myself" issue. It wasn't attractive for me. Yes, okay, so Cam 'feels lost' after the accident that robbed him his precious snowboarding career, but it wasn't enough for making me wanting to root for him.

On the other hand, I thought Katie was AMAZING, hands down. Even with panic attacks and nightmares that follow her after the horrible accident in which she was the sole survivor, Katie makes sure that she attacks the next days and challenges heads up. It is the no regrets, come what may attitude that just makes her wins my heart. Cam is stubbornly clinging to his own inability to move forward, while Katie opens herself for new adventures. She is the strength of this book for me.

However, when it comes to the romantic relationship, no matter how much I loved Katie, I didn't feel that invested towards her and Cam's. Maybe I felt it was lacking the charm or the light humor that coming from Shalvis' recent books. Luckily, the secondary relationship between Annie Wilder and her soon-to-be-ex husband Nick helped in the romantic department. Their story appealed to me and I wanted so badly to see how these two fix their marriage.

Bottom line, I liked it enough but not exactly a Shalvis' winner in my book. Hopefully the next two books will be better.
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text 2015-06-05 17:59
Instant Attraction (Wilder Book 1) By Jill Shalvis $1.99
Instant Attraction - Jill Shalvis

Accountant Katie Kramer is a quintessential good girl--working hard, recycling diligently, all the while trying to ignore the feeling that she doesn't fit in anywhere. That's all she wants. Well, that--and amazing sex, and the kind of daredevil escapade she can look back on when she's crunching numbers in a dusty cubicle. Which explains why she just took a job in Wishful, California, working for Wilder Adventures and Expeditions. Waking up to find a magnificently built stranger towering over her bed--that part defies explanation. 

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text 2014-11-19 13:09
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review 2014-10-15 03:28
[REVIEW] Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis
Instant Attraction - Jill Shalvis

omg

 

omg you guys

 

This book is so wonderfully warm and fuzzy and funny that I don't know what to do with myself other than squee in happiness because FINALLY! A book where I love the heroine, I don't want to murder the hero and the secondary characters are so loveable and relatable that I am actually having a hard time believing I found this. I even fell for the damn stray cat, Chuck! And no it has nothing to do with the fact that I've rescued two stray kittens this month.

 

Ok, maybe a little but Chuck was so sweet!

 

And this book? IT'S SO GOOD.

 

Katie was a joy to read. She was just so wonderful. I have nothing but praise for her. She had issues, but she was so damn sincere and open and honest and I related to her so much. The whole getting over a trauma made me ache for her.

 

Cam was a stud muffin with a very marked commitment phobia, but you just felt bad for the poor guy. Sure, I wanted to smack him but in a REALIZE THE MISTAKE IN YOUR WAYS AND LOVE HER NOW DAMNIT.

 

I loved the Wilders and everyone that surrounds them. I also love that the next couple was introduced and not in a beat-you-over-the-head-with-it way. It was organic, it flowed, it made damn sense!

 

It just restored my faith in Contemporaries cause I was getting fed up with the amount of lackluster crap I kept reading. Nothing made me laugh or hit me in the feels or seemed well written lately. Not the case here THANK GOODNESS.

 

This is mt first Shalvis and I'm sure it won't be my last cause, according to my weekly SmartBitches ebook sale email (say that three times fast), the trilogy is on SALE.

 

*runs and buys the last two books*

 

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