Review: Taming Teddy by Lucy Lennox
SYNOPSIS:
Teddy: If there’s one thing I don’t do, it’s commitment. You don’t become an award-winning photographer by staying in one place. I’m always on the road, looking for the next shot, the next award, the next hot body. Which is how I end up on Dr. James Marian’s front porch in the middle-of-nowhere Alaska. He’s known as the Wildlife Whisperer, and I want to photograph him in action. He’s reluctant at first, but I can be persuasive.
Soon enough I have him in bed saying yes over and over and over again, but my ability to shoot and scoot is frozen by a Denali snowstorm.
Jamie: I always thought of myself as the marrying type. Until I got left at the altar. Now I have a new motto: never commit and never fall in love. So when a cocky nature photographer decides I’m the key to his next masterpiece, it seems like the perfect arrangement: the hotshot’s only in town for a brief assignment and then he’ll be gone. No commitment, no strings, and no chance of getting my heart broken again.
There’s just one problem: I think I’m falling in love. Now I’m afraid that maybe I’m the marrying type after all. And he definitely is not.
Fair warning: Jamie and Teddy’s story contains scenes of delicious man parts touching, Aunt Tilly dropping F-bombs, and two stubborn hearts finding each other in the wilds of Alaska.
REVIEW:
First off, I am in love with this cover, it is absolutely gorgeous. After reading the first book in the series, Borrowing Blue (all books can be read as stand-alones), I was a little bummed to see Jamie’s story was next. Not because I didn’t like Jamie, but because Jude was the brother who captivated my attention. That being said, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading this story.
Jamie is a scorned man and has sworn off romance, while Teddy is a self-proclaimed man whore. What starts off as Teddy endlessly pursuing Jamie to work together, turns into so much more. Teddy was shameless in his desire to work with Jamie and when Jamie finally caves to get him out of his hair, well lets just say these men get a lot more than they bargained for. They spend several days together over the course of months and then fill in the rest with phone calls and text messages.
Their relationship had more time to grow but also the time needed for both characters to figure out exactly what they wanted. This story had the relationship balance that Borrowing Blue lacked. I felt like Jamie and Teddy had the time to know each other and while there was a healthy dose of sexual chemistry, there was also a healthy respect for each other and their profession. I think this undercurrent strengthened their bond and ultimately brought them together.
The ending was stupidly cute. I really loved that both characters had a “come to Jesus” moment. They called each other out on their sh*t and came out stronger on the other side. And there is nothing I love more in a story then when characters grow and flourish. I think my only pet-peeve is that Lucy Lennox is pushing hard for these ‘funny’ perverted grandmas, and they aren’t funny at all, just creepy and senile.
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