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icygrl7's review
4.0
68 & Climbing by Kate Douglas is a good contemporary romance read. I enjoyed reading 68 & Climbing. I have not read this author before however all of her Wolf Tales books are on my list of books to read. I will be putting them higher on my TBR list after reading 68 & Climbing because I like her writing style. I liked the characters It is Nick and Annmarie’s story.
Annmarie is a busy successful woman. She loves her job and she will do anything to keep it going and growing. She has a very big and important order that her girls are working on at the moment. They are doing well but they must keep up at the pace they are going or she won’t be able to fulfill the order on time. All is going well until the building next door starts being remodeled and the crew is a bunch of hot guys that take their shirts off distracting the girls. She is determined to have the problem taken care of so that production will not suffer. That is when she meets Nick and the attraction is instant but she is determined to ignore it because her job was important to her. He isn’t going to let her do that and he ignites a fire in her that she didn’t know was possible. He tempts her and beyond her control but she doesn’t want the girls to know so they must meet in secret. Which is something that upsets him and she doesn’t understand why. Will she be able to meet her deadline and work things out with Nick? Or will one or both fail?
Nick is a hard worker and he loves his job and proud of his accomplishments. He hasn’t had it easy in life or in love. His ex thought he was only a play thing that could be discarded whenever she wanted. She was rich and he wasn’t. That entire thing had broken his heart and he wasn’t willing to have something like that happen again. When he takes a new remodeling job he is enamored with the business owner next door even though she is quite irritated with his men distracting her girls. When he kisses her she is taken aback but he can tell that she likes it. He is going to pursue her because she has woken up a part of him that he thought was lost. He can tell that she is trying to resist him but he can also tell that she needs exactly what he has to offer. The more time they spend together the more she begins to bloom under his attention. The only thing is she had him crawl out her window and that bothered him. He still wants a relationship with her so they continue to enjoy each other. When she asks him to leave early one morning so that her girls won’t see that he was there he is angry. It is his last straw and he tells her so. When he has the chance to cool down and see things from her perspective he is sorry but he is afraid that he has lost her forever. Will that confrontation end everything? Or will she give him chance to explain things?
I enjoyed reading 68 & Climbing it was a fun read. I loved the characters. I thought that Annmarie was a bit uptight but I think it is because she had never met the right person yet. She had tried to fit into her families ideals of things and that wasn’t working for her. I liked that she was a career woman and that she was successful at it. I liked Nick too. He was able to bring out a side in her that needed to come to the surface. He is a good guy and he deserved the best. I could understand why he initially got upset at her for not wanting the girls to know, but I could also understand her point of view as well. I think that they both needed to grow a bit and they were able to do so by the end of the book. I would recommend 68 & Climbing to anyone who enjoys contemporary romances.
Annmarie is a busy successful woman. She loves her job and she will do anything to keep it going and growing. She has a very big and important order that her girls are working on at the moment. They are doing well but they must keep up at the pace they are going or she won’t be able to fulfill the order on time. All is going well until the building next door starts being remodeled and the crew is a bunch of hot guys that take their shirts off distracting the girls. She is determined to have the problem taken care of so that production will not suffer. That is when she meets Nick and the attraction is instant but she is determined to ignore it because her job was important to her. He isn’t going to let her do that and he ignites a fire in her that she didn’t know was possible. He tempts her and beyond her control but she doesn’t want the girls to know so they must meet in secret. Which is something that upsets him and she doesn’t understand why. Will she be able to meet her deadline and work things out with Nick? Or will one or both fail?
Nick is a hard worker and he loves his job and proud of his accomplishments. He hasn’t had it easy in life or in love. His ex thought he was only a play thing that could be discarded whenever she wanted. She was rich and he wasn’t. That entire thing had broken his heart and he wasn’t willing to have something like that happen again. When he takes a new remodeling job he is enamored with the business owner next door even though she is quite irritated with his men distracting her girls. When he kisses her she is taken aback but he can tell that she likes it. He is going to pursue her because she has woken up a part of him that he thought was lost. He can tell that she is trying to resist him but he can also tell that she needs exactly what he has to offer. The more time they spend together the more she begins to bloom under his attention. The only thing is she had him crawl out her window and that bothered him. He still wants a relationship with her so they continue to enjoy each other. When she asks him to leave early one morning so that her girls won’t see that he was there he is angry. It is his last straw and he tells her so. When he has the chance to cool down and see things from her perspective he is sorry but he is afraid that he has lost her forever. Will that confrontation end everything? Or will she give him chance to explain things?
I enjoyed reading 68 & Climbing it was a fun read. I loved the characters. I thought that Annmarie was a bit uptight but I think it is because she had never met the right person yet. She had tried to fit into her families ideals of things and that wasn’t working for her. I liked that she was a career woman and that she was successful at it. I liked Nick too. He was able to bring out a side in her that needed to come to the surface. He is a good guy and he deserved the best. I could understand why he initially got upset at her for not wanting the girls to know, but I could also understand her point of view as well. I think that they both needed to grow a bit and they were able to do so by the end of the book. I would recommend 68 & Climbing to anyone who enjoys contemporary romances.
sarabc's review
1.0
This book was not my cup of tea. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a good sex scene but that seems to be the main part of this book. The characters really don't develop, aren't super interesting, and the plot is just humdrum and boring.
The only reason I finished this book is because I received it from NetGalley otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
The only reason I finished this book is because I received it from NetGalley otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.
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