April 28, 2010 | Life in General,Reading is FUNdamental,Road Trip Wednesday,The 4-1-1 on Me
Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival”, where YA Highway‘s contributors post a weekly writing or reading-related question and answer it in on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.
You’re more than welcome to participate! Just answer the question on your own blog, and leave a link to it in their comments.
Topic #25: What’s the best book you’ve read this month?
I’m warning you right now, it’s not YA. LOL
I finished reading Instant Temptation by Jill Shavis about a week or so ago.
T.J. Wilder is the perfect package of breathtaking adventure and raw sex appeal. Even better, he’s about to reconnect with the one woman he’s never been able to forget…
Get Your Pulse Racing
To Harley, the landscape around Wishful, California, is exhilarating, untamed, and more than a little dangerous. The same could be said for T.J. Wilder, who’s invited himself along on her trek to study a rare coyote. Harley’s career is riding on this trip, and she doesn’t need a stubborn, incredibly sexy distraction. But T.J. is a professional guide who knows when to stay back and when to provide invaluable expertise-just like he’s done since they were in high school. And Harley, as usual, is torn between throttling him and giving in to the raw attraction that’s been smoldering all these years.
T.J. knows how proud and capable Harley is, but he’s damned sure not letting her put herself at risk when there are illegal hunters in the area. She needs him, with the same soul-stirring urgency that he’s always craved her. And here, in this beautiful place days from civilization, he’ll finally have a chance to prove it-over and over again…
Jill is one of favorite adult romance authors. She’s in my blog roll over there, so be sure to go on over and check her out. She’s hilarious. I love reading about Frat Boy’s antics and her need for cookies during tough situations. LOL. I have a nice collection of her books on my shelf and read pretty much everything she puts out. What I love about her books, in general, not just this particular one, is that she describes the guys so well.
With this book in particular, readers are whopped up side the head time and again with how GORGEOUS T.J. Wilder is. Even though we see him through Harley’s eyes, the man is drop dead sexy/gorgeous. But it’s Jill’s words, of course, that make him that way. Whenever she described him, the whole package, including whatever he was wearing in a certain scene, I could clearly see him in my mind.
And day-am, was he gorgeous!
While reading this book, there were many times I wanted to be Harley. I found myself looking at the cover from time to time (that’s why it’s gonna take a lot for me to ever buy an eReader), wishing I could see the whole package and not just a head shot.
Because the man is FOINE. I know I keep mentioning that, but truly, on the Taster’s Choice Hotness scale of 1 to 10, he’s a 30.
All of Jill’s books are like this. You “see” her characters so clearly, you could look up and find them in the room with you. They’re that tangible. And me, with my overactive imagination anyway, find that I have to have a Drool Bowl nearby whenever I read her books.
This is the third book in a trilogy about a trio of brothers who run an outdoor adventure business, Wilder Adventures, and I really enjoyed reading about all the brothers.
Because they’re all so freakin’ gorgeous!
You rock, Jill Shalvis!
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Kaitlin says:
I should really branch out of my YA shell and read some romance sometime.
Celise says:
Kaitlin – LOL. Yes. I wholeheartedly agree.