I only skimmed this one, might like to try it again some day. ( )

I liked this book. Good banter and word usage/writing by the author. I like a bubbly happy heroine. She was out of her element but holding her own. He was brooding but he learned and grew over the course of the book. I liked how the author brought up some obvious tangents then didn't take them. Like when the old girlfriend wanted him back. He just looked and her and said 'no, I'm not going to call' rather than there being a whole 'misunderstanding' built around it. A nice read right during the Winter Olympics, it fit right in with its winter sports theme. I'm looking forward to the brothers' stories. ( )

Enjoyable grown up romance ( )

Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis

Wilder book 1. Contemporary romance with lots of family and secondary characters.
Cam is back at the Lodge ready to face life after his crash from fame. He’s done with adventure. Katie is searching for adventure after a major death scare. She’s finding the crisp mountain air allows her to breathe deeply. The two are attracted to each other to the point of a sizzling affair. It’s temporary. Katie is leaving and Cam doesn’t know what he wants.

This was a second reading. I still loved the writing and all the complex family dynamics. I was a little less happy with Cam and his hot and cold attitude. Still excited to read the read of the series.

“He could guard his heart all he wanted, but it was too late. She’d sneaked in past his defenses and leveled him flat on his ass, and now he was down for the count.”

Excerpt:
“Cam watched Katie come flying out of the lodge, her clothes all neat and tidy, her hair perfectly pinned up on her head, all pretty perfection except for the jacket she’d left open in her hurry.
In the week and a half he’d known her, she seemed to be unwinding a bit. He wanted to unwind her some more.
Unwind and unwrap . . .
She came to a stop in front of him. “Hi.”
“Goldilocks.”
“You said we were a bad idea,” she reminded him.
“We are.”
She grinned at him, and he felt his own reluctantly tug at his mouth. Ah, man. He liked her. That simple. He liked her, and in his experience, that never ended well for anyone.“
Excerpt from a Instant Attraction by Jill Shalvis ( )

Jill Shalvis creates another amazing setting in Wishful that makes the reader look forward to the many loving adventures that will take place there. ( )