ARC received from St Martin’s Press via Netgalley for an honest review

I have not read book 1 in the Perfect Fit series (Dangerous Curves Ahead) and do not feel that it is necessary to have read it to get into Thrown For A Curve.

22 year old Charlotte "Cherri" hasn't had the easiest. Left with her mother at 8 years old when her mother took off, she has spent the last years looking after her grandmother, working her butt off at school and in her best friend's store.

At 6 foot tall and with curves you could drive on for days, she thinks she is a bit of a freak and no guy would really want her.

Ugh! I swear the way she talked about herself, you would think she was 8 foot tall and 200kg, she has such a low opinion of herself!

Colin is the sexy Irishman, her best friend's husbands best mate. Since his last relationship, he has manwhored his way through half of New York, but now only has eyes for Cherri, but won't act on it because of the age difference. Bad boy reformed?

Cue the boy wants girl, girl wants boy, friends think it is a bad idea, boy and girl get together anyway. Bad things happen, boy and girl have troubles, break up and make up.

It is a pretty run of the mill scenario, but I did enjoy it.

At times it felt like both the MC, Colin and Charlotte devolved into 15 year old whiney teenager. Sure I could understand that a bit from Charlotte as she has never been in a relationship before and is only 22 (though I am sure that someone would have shot me if I had been like that in my 20s!!) but it really did irritate me. She could be so mature but so immature at times. And aaargh Colin you are a 34 year old man, act like it!

There were a couple of things that I felt weren't really necessary ~ every time Colin is with his friends they bring up "you're such a manwhore". OK - we get it! We got it the first dozen times it was brought up. I felt that this was overkill, and I did feel sorry for him that his friends treated him this way.

The other thing was Colin's ex. Did she really need to come into the story? Or was she just there to prove Colin's reformation from manwhore to one-woman man? She just seemed superfluous to me.

I loved loved loved Baba and Rufus (the dog). Baba was a feisty old Ukrainian woman, got her words hilariously mixed up. And boy she may be old but she still goes for the men! She is great the way she interacts with Colin.

Thrown for a Curve has it's funny moments, but it has quite a lot of dark, sad moments as well. Cherri goes through more than a 22 year old should have to in her years.

This is the first Sugar Jamison I have read, and if I come across more I will read them too.