Diana's Reviews > Instant Attraction

Oh, this book. It's deftly written, smartly paced, humorous and hopeful, and absolutely will make you fall in love.

This time, we are in Wishful, CA, and because I've never been to the mountains nor experienced the small town pleasures such as featured here, it's making me really want to take a trip and have my own adventure.

I fell in love with the Wilder clan; I'm sure it'll be an epic adventure to read about Stone and TJ's own adventures, and the sub-plot with Annie and Nick left me achey and angsty.

Cam, I get it and appreciate the journey he had to take in order to piece his life back together, to figure out that he is more than just the sport, that he deserves the love and that he is so very worth it. He made mistakes with Katie, and foolish/hurtful those may be, he never was malicious and in fact did his best to rectify his mistakes, to try and be a better man. Because Katie, this woman is just amazing. She is something else, this girl. She is such an effusive person, and I so admire her courage, optimism, and determination to make her life count, to change her circumstances and lead a better life, "balls out." Couldn't help it, even I fell in love with her character.

It's classic Shalvis; I probably highlighted pages upon pages - sometimes it's lines that are memorable to you, sentiments that stick out - and it's like that with her too, but it's also so much more, because I find myself fascinated with how scenes play out in her novels. It's the moments. Because Shalvis always does this to me, makes me go through the roller coaster ride of emotion (often with physical signs too) in just a few paragraphs, a couple of pages. It's all there. And then, and then it starts all over again. No wasted words, no filler scenes. All out emotions.

I have to say that there was this moment with Katie and the two local girls, Serena and Harley, that made me laugh so much. Made me think of two other trios, and their awesome relationships (Maddie, Tara, Chloe; Mal, Amy, Grace) and the ending for this? Wow. Prototype for Grace's, eh? Haha.