I had been waiting for Caleb’s story since the very first book in this series, because he cracks me up so much! And while I was happy to see him and Gracie get together, and this was definitely a steamy story with some good banter between the two, in a way, I almost didn’t get the usual Caleb feelings I get from when he was just a character on the side. I don’t know if that’s just because when we only got to see him at those funny moments, we didn’t see all the serious sides to him as well? I expected this book would be my favorite in the series because of the banter between Caleb and Gracie always was so good, and the sexual tension just rolled off the pages in the other stories. Now when the two of them got together in this story and things were going well, it was there. All of it. But the times when the two of them were fighting and ignoring the other one, or whatever, it just made the book drag a little for me at those times. And I got so mad at Gracie for saying what she did at the end that was really the final conflict for the two. It was one of those things that often irritates me in other stories. However, I do love the way the author handled their “kiss and make up” “figure sh**/stuff out moment”. That to me was realistic and was how people could really deal with that type of situation without all the drama that is usually added to romance novels. So in the end it all worked, it just wasn’t quite the Caleb book I’d expected.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.