Avon Romance
Source: ARC provided by the publisher
When love drives you crazy . . .
When sexy Joe Malone never calls after their explosive kiss, Kylie shoves him out of her mind. Until she needs a favor, and it’s a doozy. Something precious to her has been stolen and there’s only one person with unique finder-and-fixer skills that can help—Joe. It means swallowing her pride and somehow trying to avoid the temptation to throttle him—or seduce him.
the best thing to do . . .
No, Joe didn’t call after the kiss. He’s the fun time guy, not the forever guy. And Kylie, after all she’s been through, deserves a good man who will stay. But everything about Kylie makes it damned hard to focus, and though his brain knows what he has to do, his heart isn’t getting the memo.
… is enjoy the ride.
As Kylie and Joe go on the scavenger hunt of their lives, they discover surprising things about each other. Now, the best way for them to get over “that kiss” might just be to replace it with a hundred more.
*ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest and unbiased review*
So excuse me why I fangirl all over the latest Heartbreaker Bay book,
by the amazing Jill Shalvis, called About That Kiss. I mean seriously! I only
"discovered" Jill Shalvis at the beginning on this series (because
clearly I lived in a bubble), and now I cannot get enough of her books, but
back to this book...
About That Kiss is we get to know more about the luscious Joe Malone
*swoon*, retired Special-Op's and now working as one of Archer's crew, and if
that want enough, he is the brother of Molly, and his father is a crazy VET,
who refuses to wear pants, and likes to point a shotgun at the door, no matter
if you're friend or foe!
And just who is paired up with the beautiful, but emotionally frozen
Joe? Well it can only be Kylie Masters,
Master Carpenter, owner of half French bulldog, and half muppet, Vinnie, and
the recipient of the most explosive kiss from Joe, only then to be ignored by
him!
But when Kylie has one of the few special pieces from her grandfather's
stolen and held for ransom, Joe is the only person she can think who would help
her.
To say I love this series is an understatement, I mean seriously! What
is not to love!! The chemistry between Joe and Kylie is explosive, the plot is
a funny, crazy, romantic (ish), who done it, that at points, had me laughing so
hard, I cried.
About That Kiss is definitely a must read for 2018! And with all that
being said, I give About That Kiss 5 well deserved stars!
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Joe studied her. “I asked you once before, but now I’m going
to ask you again. Is there something going
on between you two?”
She tossed up her hands. “Why do you both keep asking me that
about each other?”
His eyes narrowed. “I thought nothing was going on.”
“And before today, I could’ve passed a lie detector test on
that,” she said.
“What happened today?”
She paused. Not because she had anything to be ashamed of,
but because she wasn’t quite sure what
had happened.
“Kylie.”
She sighed. “It’s nothing.”
“Try again,” Joe said and gave her the very male universal go
on gesture.
She rolled her eyes. “Fine. He . . . finally made a move on
me.”
Joe didn’t budge. Not a blink, not a muscle twitch, nothing,
but she could’ve popped corn off the electric tension coming off him.
“Describe ‘made a move,’ ” he finally said.
She crossed her arms. “And again, how is this relevant to my
case?”
He just gave her that careful stare again and she thought wow,
those eyes of his should be registered as a lethal
weapon, because she found herself opening her
mouth and spilling her guts. “He kissed me.”
“He kissed you.”
“Yeah,” she said. “Do you know that you often repeat what I
say?”
“What kind of a kiss?” he asked.
She was momentarily bewildered. “I don’t know. It was a kiss.
A normal kiss. A nice kiss.” She cocked her head at him. “How many kinds of
kisses are there?”
He just looked at her for a long moment before coming toward
her. He backed her to the wall and pressed his big hands on either side of her
head.
“There are many kinds of kisses,” he said.
Her breath had backed up in her throat, where her heart had
lodged, pounding wildly. “S-s-such as?”
“Such as this one.” And then he leaned in and covered her
mouth with his.
At the touch of Joe’s mouth, Kylie’s
brain stopped being capable of rational thought. His tongue gave a
knee-weakening stroke against hers and she let out a shockingly needy moan as
she clutched at him, fisting her hands in the material of his shirt at his
chest. Only when he’d thoroughly plundered and pillaged and left her boneless
did he lift his head and
look into her eyes.
“Wow,” she whispered, fully aware she was still holding on to
him like he was a lifeline, but the bones in her legs had liquefied. “I mean .
. .” She shook her head. “Wow.”
He nodded. “Yeah. So to be clear, that wasn’t ‘a normal kiss’
or even ‘a nice kiss.’ It was a ‘wow’ kiss. Any questions?”
“Just one,” she said softly. “Can I have another?”
Joe didn’t have to be asked twice. His mouth immediately descended
again, his fingers sliding into her hair to change the angle of the kiss to
suit him. It was a controlled, alpha thing to do, but she had only one
thought—nothing about the usually carefully, purposely leashed Joe was in
control at the moment.
And she liked it.
She had no idea how long they went at it because she was in
absolute heaven. Who knew that the man could use his preferred silent
mode to communicate in a way that she finally approved of?
Only when she was completely breathless and about to strip
him down to his birthday suit did she manage to pull back.
“Any more questions?” he asked, also a little bit breathless,
which was more than slightly gratifying. Dumbly, she shook her head. His eyes
softened and he gently he stroked his thumb over her bottom lip. “And FYI?
Gib’s an idiot.”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill
Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters.
Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly
coincidental. Look for Jill’s sexy contemporary and award-winning books
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