EBookObsessed
Written on May 20, 2014
Texting Jax Chamberlain in secret at the airport while waiting to board there plane, goes from playful fun to a night of the hot sex neither has ever experienced before. With her hard earned reputation on the line, Lexi can’t risk what her rich clients might think of a relationship with the gorgeous stuntman, especially with the Galliano people watching her every move.
Jax is so used to being used as a stepping stone for every woman who hops into his bed, he is afraid to believe that Lexi is a good as she seems. Can two people who have trust issues take the leap to trust one more time?
THOUGHTS:
The narrator, Piper Goodeve, did a great job bringing Lexi alive for me. Her male voices were not as impressive but overall she did a great job narrating with a very natural flow to her voice.
This story starts out with Jax and Lexi seeing each other outside of the airport and then ending up on the same flight. Although the premise was a bit far fetched that Lexi was testing an app which would show her the phone numbers on every phone, I did enjoy the anonymous text flirting between Lexi and Jax which starts our story. Both were open, flirtly and it introduced them both as very likable characters before all the BS starts.
Although they were both likable characters, their issues, especially those of Lexi, just tear the story apart. Let start with Jax. He is a former actor from a long family dynasty of actors. He acted under his given name and is now much happier going by his middle name Jackson and working as a stunt man. Jax has had relationship after relationship where women just use him to be introduced to some director or other important person in movies. Although Jax is gorgeous and rich, apparently women only use him to get ahead. He has just gotten out of another relationship with a woman who stole a big contract from him. So when he first sees Lexi he wants to know what she wants from him and he is so desperate for her at this point, he is disappointed but willing to be used once again.
What I mean by finally sees her, when they have what is supposed to be their one night stand, Lexi makes Jax turn out all of the lights before she comes in so he can’t see her and recognize her or see how gorgeous she is. Maybe the author does this to prove how stupid men will be to get sex from someone they have convinced themselves is hot, because Jax agrees to this. What? At this point they have only had their texting/flirting at the airport. To agree to blindly have sex with a woman seems a big leap to a man with his own trust issues. From her flirty banter, he presumes that she is gorgeous? hot? not his sister? The scene was hot, no question, there is still a part of my brain screaming who’s stupid enough to agree to that? A guy who wants indiscriminate sex, that’s who.
Yes, Jax has issues and jumps to the conclusion that she wants something from him, but quickly realizes that if she did want from him, she wouldn’t have hidden her face or avoided him. She would have walked into his hotel room, showed him how beautiful she was and made sure to hook him with her looks and sex and then asked for his connections rather than avoided him. So Jax is a reasonable person.
My biggest issue plot wise was simply Lexi’s waffling between why she can’t be with Jax or any other man. Yes, she worked hard to earn the big, rich, Hollywood clients and yes, they are a judgy bunch. She is also had her last boyfriend who didn’t want to let go of Lexi because she is soooooo, sooooo beautiful and he needed to have her as his eye candy so desperately that he tried blackmailing her to keep her. Because of the judgy people and the possessive ex-boyfriend, first she can’t be with Jax because she thought he was just a biker and the people she works with would judge her based on his look. Then when she finds out he is a stuntman and knows many of the people she has worked with, she still can’t be with him in public because he could desire her so much that he could ruin her by turning all her clients again her. Back and forth, back and forth. Even after a mutual friend vouches for how wonderful a person Jax is she still waffles over if he is good enough. Here is my biggest problem with this story…after 150 pages of “I worked hard to build my business,” “I don’t have time for a relationship,” “I can’t be with Jax because he isn’t good enough for my clients,” “I can’t be with Jax because he could get possessive and ruin her reputation”…they have sex in a public place. Yes, in a shadowy corner away from everyone, but in public and yes, they are caught. What happened to MY PRECIOUS REPUTATION? We had to listen to her worry about her business and her reputation for over 150 pages and then she hikes her skirt up in a corner surrounded by her clients. I was driving my car, listening to the story and screaming at the top of my lungs “ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?”
These were great characters and we could have enjoyed many more sexy scenes where Jax and Lexi were sneaking around on the Q.T. rather than waste all this time and energy listening to Lexi give excuse after excuse to protect her reputation. I wish politicians worked this hard to protect their reputations. Skye Jordan (a/k/a Joan Swan) is a good author so I am disappointed that she didn’t come up with a better excuse to keep them apart although it simply wasn’t necessary to keep them apart in the first place. Both were busy, hard working people and that could have been more than enough of an excuse to keep them apart. Lexi just comes across as a sweet, hard working woman who is a complete idiot for making stupid excuses why she can’t date a gorgeous, hard working, well-known and admired stunt man.
Oh, I did forget one more unbelievable point of this story, which even Jax found unbelievable, Lexi is so busy being hard-working she didn’t recognize Jax from any of his movies when he was working as a well-known, sexy leading man.
