MY REVIEW:
How many times can I possibly gush about loving a man in uniform?? Add to the fact that Drew is a deputy sheriff, and OMG- total swoon!!!!
Avery and Drew's story hooked me from the first minute- best friends all of their lives, each being the one person in the world that the other could count on. I loved it. We all know that a solid relationship is better when two people start it by building a strong friendship. So, we had to know that these two would have the most solid one ever. Right?? Well, kinda......
Given the delicate nature of their "arrangement", both Avery and Drew spent most of the book being worried about how what they were doing was going to affect their friendship. When in all actuality, their friendship was only a tiny blip on the radar, when it came to the way that these two felt about each other. I mean, they were clearly in love from the get go. I think we all could see that. So, it certainly made for some very interesting moments and scenes in their story.
Katee did an amazing job with this one. She had a fantastic way about showing how deep their feelings for each other ran, while still maintaining the true nature of who they were to each other, originally. We were able to see their easy going relationship, the way that Drew and Avery doted on one another (sometimes without even noticing it), and the way that they fully enveloped and cared for their friends and most of their family. I say most, because let's face it, some members of Avery's family were simply atrocious. Her grandfather needed to be taken out back and beaten with a big stick for some of the things he said to his granddaughters. Thankfully, when he seemed to turn his back on Avery and her sister, she still had Drew their to pick up the pieces and make it all better. It only went to further show how much he loved her.
While this is the first book of Katee's that I have read, I can say that I will definitely be picking up more of her stuff in the future. This was a rather enjoyable read, and kept my full attention throughout.
5 stars!!
Meet Avery
& Drew in Katee Robert’s newest sexy standalone from Entangled Brazen!
NOW
AVAILABLE!
Blurb
He's
going above and beyond the call of duty...
Avery Yeung's biological clock just went
off early. Thanks to her family's medical history, she's running out of time to
get knocked up. And the only guy within donating distance? Her
overprotective-and irritatingly hot-best friend. So clearly she needs an anonymous donor...
Anonymous donor? Over Sheriff Drew
Flannery's dead body. While daddyhood will never be in the cards for a man with
his past, Drew won't let Avery shop for a "popsicle pop." He'll do
what's right for his best friend by doing
his best friend. But only if they do it properly.
But there's nothing "proper"
about it. Between the bed, the kitchen counter, and against his squad car,
Avery and Drew are having the hottest sex ever.
They can't get enough of it-or each other. And without knowing it, they've
crossed the one line that could ruin their friendship forever...
EXCERPTS:
Excerpt #1:
All she had to do was pick up the phone and make the call.
Well, she refused to be a coward, and there was never a
better time than now. She dialed, hating herself for holding her breath, and
nearly hung up in a panic when he answered,
“Flannery.”
Her nervous energy got away from her, and words popped out
of her mouth before she could think better of them. “Morning! Just calling with
your daily sex status report.”
A heartbeat, and then he laughed. “Okay, I’ll bite. How’d I
do?”
“Oh, you know, just fine.”
“Fine?” A car door slammed somewhere in the distance.
“Sweetheart, that was a far sight better than ‘fine.’”
She was going to get through this with sheer bravado. The
only other option was to sit down and talk about their feelings, which so
wasn’t on the menu if Avery had anything to say about it. A little more relaxed
now, she settled onto the rocking chair and propped her feet on the chest. “It
was a solid six.”
“That’s so cute when you mix up your numbers. Yesterday was
a ten.”
She paused, pretending to consider. “Oh, no, definitely not
a ten. I would have noticed if Sam Elliott or Sean Connery showed up.”
“You have seriously questionable taste.”
“I do not. I have excellent taste. Those voices…” She
sighed, putting a little extra breathiness into it. “Actually, I’m adding
Benedict Cumberbatch to that list. He’d be a ten.”
“No. Absolutely not. I draw the line at being outranked by a
man with better cheekbones than most women. He is not attractive.”
“Don’t be jealous that you can’t make women come just by
talking to them.”
“Two words—phone sex.”
Her laugh died. After what they’d just done, she didn’t like
the reminder that he’d rocked other women’s worlds, but she’d better get used
to it. This was Drew, and he’d never had a problem with the ladies. “Kudos to
you, then.”
His tone shifted, the playfulness disappearing. “What are
you doing for lunch?”
You. No, wait, she couldn’t say that.
She still didn’t know where they stood. She couldn’t just assume they were
going to keep having sex because they were joking about yesterday.
Avery twisted her hair. “I hadn’t decided.”
“I’ll make it easy on you—my place, noon.”
The growl in his voice made her shiver, but she forced a
laugh. “Are we going to walk twenty paces and have a shootout?”
“If by shootout, you mean you’re going to come screaming my
name, then yes.”
Excerpt #2:
What was the problem? She bit back the question. It didn’t
really matter. All that mattered was that he kept touching her. He ran his
hands down her spine, stopping just before reaching the cuffs. Then he pulled
her into a standing position, using his hips to keep her pinned against the
side of the Jeep, and repeated the process with the front of her body.
Or he started to. It stopped being a cursory exploration as
soon as he reached her breasts. He cupped her, squeezing. “Why the hell aren’t
you wearing a bra?”
He lightly pinched her nipples and she shivered. “I wasn’t
aware I was talking to the fashion police.”
“Do you know what it does to me knowing you’re driving
around, a short step away from being topless?” His breath brushed the back of
her neck and over one shoulder, raising goose bumps in its wake.
Probably the same thing it did to Avery. She didn’t make a
habit of going braless, but she might start if this was the reaction she got.
She took a shaky breath. “Then I guess you better not do a panty check.”
Drew froze for one eternal second. Then he pushed her back
down over the hood of her Jeep and dragged her skirt up to bunch around her
hips. A breeze chose that moment to hit—as if she needed the reminder of just
how exposed she was. But then he slid a hand between her legs, and she didn’t
care much about anything else at all.
“You’re already wet.” He teased her, fingers brushing her
clit, her entrance, and back again, nothing close to what she needed. “I think
you like it when I toss you around.”
She gritted her teeth, fighting against the need to spread
her legs to give him better access, and beg for him to just touch her. “Nah. I
was touching myself while I was driving.”
“Really?” He kept up his maddening route. “And what were you
thinking about?”
Hell, if she actually had started early, she’d have been
thinking about him. Yesterday had given her plenty of ammunition for fantasies.
No way in hell would she admit as much, though. “Sean Connery. Obviously.”
“Obviously.” His laugh was a little harsh. “Guess I’ll have
to up my game if I want you in the here and now, huh?”
Up his game? Only if he wanted to kill her. Avery couldn’t
admit she was so affected. She wouldn’t. It was just sex—and sex with a
deadline, at that. She let her cheek rest against the cool metal of the hood,
striving for control. “I don’t know. Sean Connery is a pretty tough act to
follow.”
“Sean Connery, huh?”
“Yep.” She was lying through her teeth and she had a pretty
good idea that he knew it. His fingers pushed deeper, spreading her until she
couldn’t help but rock against him. She gritted her teeth. “He was really
good.”
“I bet.” His lips found the back of her neck. “It’s a shame
you have to settle for me.”
The ass didn’t sound the least bit bothered by it, either.
She hissed out a breath at the feeling of his palm cupping
her. Owning her. It wasn’t supposed to be this intense. She closed her eyes,
but that only made it worse, because she couldn’t pretend she was with anyone
else but Drew.
She didn’t want to.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Katee
Robert
New York Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Katee Robert learned to tell stories at her grandpa’s knee.
Her favorites then were the rather epic adventures of The Three Bears, but at
age twelve she discovered romance novels and never looked back.
Though she dabbled in writing, life got in the way—as it
often does—and she spent a few years traveling, living in both Philadelphia and
Germany. In between traveling and raising her two wee ones, she had the crazy
idea that she’d like to write a book and try to get published.
Her first novel was an epic fantasy that, God willing, will
never see the light of day. From there, she dabbled in YA and horror, before
finally finding speculative romance. Because, really, who wouldn’t want to
write entire books about the smoking-hot relationships between two people?
She now spends her time—when not lost in Far Reach
worlds—playing imaginary games with her wee ones, writing, ogling men, and
planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
