Michael Hicks's Reviews > Falling for the Enemy

DNF at 33%. Rather than be engaged with this supposedly sexy romance, I'm finding myself too annoyed by the characters to give a shit. He's a former SEAL and son of the town's mayor. She's a salon owner and running against his father in the upcoming election. He's infatuated with her but every time he speaks he ends up putting his foot in his mouth and ticking her off. She's constantly swinging back and forth between wanting him and choosing celibacy to protect her image. Needless to say, they have some steamy sex.

I was already growing tired of their schtick by the 20% mark but wanted to see what might happen and gave it until 30% to improve. When the second sex scene rolled around - in a gas station bathroom, which the author paints as being clean and pine scented, I just couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to roll with it. I'm guessing Beck has never been in a gas station men's room before and it shows. To add to the ludicrousness of it all, their sex gets interrupted by a trucker demanding to use the men's room, hears their grunting it out, and suggests the guy see a doctor before high-tailing it out of there. It's supposed to be cute and funny, at least as cute and funny as implied scatalogical humor during a furious fuck romp in a wholly fictitiously clean gas station's men room can be, but all I could do was roll my eyes and wonder just how many infections these two were going to coming out of that bathroom with.