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Nice Girls Don't Ride
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Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
This is my first book by Roni Loren but it won’t be my last. From the very first pages until the end Iwas swept away by her masterful storytelling and completely immersed into the lives of Natalie and Monroe. Sweet, sexy, charming, funny, and just plain fantastic I’ve just found a new to me author with a huge backlist to check out!
On Natalie’s 21st birthday; her car breaks down, she can’t reach her boyfriend, a tatted up guy that screams bad boy stops in a wrecker to offer assistance, she finds out her boyfriend is cheating and winds up spending the night of her life with said tatted up bad boy who turns out to be something entirely different. I swear for a novella this author packed a whole lot of punch into this story.
I flat out LOVED the way these two got off on the wrong foot, the way Natalie just let it all out and didn’t pull any punches around Monroe, the way he called her on some of her shit but was there when she needed a friend and the way he made her feel when he told her he liked her just the way she is.
Monroe is one of those sneaky heroes; you think you have him all figured out and he turns out to be something else entirely. I love that he is a foodie, that he wants to live the dream his mother didn’t live long enough to accomplish, that he has a no holds barred attitude, that he thinks before he acts, that he appreciates everything about Natalie and most of all he’s not afraid to show and tell Natalie just how he feels about her.
I admire a young woman who can have such a crappy day but who decides to shake it off and have fun. It was obvious that Natalie had been hiding her true self or at least not letting it all loose around he uptight boyfriend but finding out he was cheating let her wild side show and it came out in rare form. While she had some moments of sadness I love how she let Monroe take over her evening, that she rolled with everything he wanted to do, that she came to realize there was a lot more to the man she thought might be a murderer, that she appreciated all sides of him, and most of all that she made the choice to spend time with him and really get to know him.
So yes, you could say that I flat out LOVED this story and I did so you are asking why 4.5 stars…well I’ll tell you. I wanted to go along on their road trip and so I was bummed that Natalie and Monroe decided we weren’t invited along. I’m a good passenger, I love eating in dives and drive-ins and while I’m not so much in love with being in a tent, they could have dropped me off for the evening at a hotel and picked me up the next day, so they would have had privacy but alas I wasn’t allowed to go and that bummed me greatly. That being said, Nice Girls Don’t Ride was refreshing, fun, and so damn amazing and I enjoyed every minute of it!
Review copy provided for an honest review.
This is my first book by Roni Loren but it won’t be my last. From the very first pages until the end Iwas swept away by her masterful storytelling and completely immersed into the lives of Natalie and Monroe. Sweet, sexy, charming, funny, and just plain fantastic I’ve just found a new to me author with a huge backlist to check out!
On Natalie’s 21st birthday; her car breaks down, she can’t reach her boyfriend, a tatted up guy that screams bad boy stops in a wrecker to offer assistance, she finds out her boyfriend is cheating and winds up spending the night of her life with said tatted up bad boy who turns out to be something entirely different. I swear for a novella this author packed a whole lot of punch into this story.
I flat out LOVED the way these two got off on the wrong foot, the way Natalie just let it all out and didn’t pull any punches around Monroe, the way he called her on some of her shit but was there when she needed a friend and the way he made her feel when he told her he liked her just the way she is.
Monroe is one of those sneaky heroes; you think you have him all figured out and he turns out to be something else entirely. I love that he is a foodie, that he wants to live the dream his mother didn’t live long enough to accomplish, that he has a no holds barred attitude, that he thinks before he acts, that he appreciates everything about Natalie and most of all he’s not afraid to show and tell Natalie just how he feels about her.
I admire a young woman who can have such a crappy day but who decides to shake it off and have fun. It was obvious that Natalie had been hiding her true self or at least not letting it all loose around he uptight boyfriend but finding out he was cheating let her wild side show and it came out in rare form. While she had some moments of sadness I love how she let Monroe take over her evening, that she rolled with everything he wanted to do, that she came to realize there was a lot more to the man she thought might be a murderer, that she appreciated all sides of him, and most of all that she made the choice to spend time with him and really get to know him.
So yes, you could say that I flat out LOVED this story and I did so you are asking why 4.5 stars…well I’ll tell you. I wanted to go along on their road trip and so I was bummed that Natalie and Monroe decided we weren’t invited along. I’m a good passenger, I love eating in dives and drive-ins and while I’m not so much in love with being in a tent, they could have dropped me off for the evening at a hotel and picked me up the next day, so they would have had privacy but alas I wasn’t allowed to go and that bummed me greatly. That being said, Nice Girls Don’t Ride was refreshing, fun, and so damn amazing and I enjoyed every minute of it!
Review copy provided for an honest review.
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