Too Wild to Tame by Tessa Bailey

Too Wild to Tame (Romancing the Clarksons)

by Tessa Bailey

Aaron Clarkson has dreamed of the White House since his very first debate team victory, and connecting with a presidential candidate while on the campaign trail in Iowa is the next rung in his ladder to the top. While his siblings are grudgingly obliging his request to put the road trip on a short hiatus in Iowa, Aaron escapes their passive aggression by grabbing a beer in the local dive bar, where his attentions are quickly captured by a violet-eyed seductress in leather pants.

Grace Pendleton is the black sheep of her family, but in the interest of creating a happy family portrait, she has been dragged along to smile for the camera while her father stumps for votes. She only ventured into the rundown pub to use the restroom, but she couldn't resist a chance at making Aaron, the overly ambitious politico, pant for something he couldn't have.

When a local cause in need of support draws both of their interest, Aaron and Grace find themselves in a battle for what's right - and in extremely close quarters, where resistance is futile. But they're pulled apart all too soon by outside forces and the vastly different futures they aspire to. They'll have to decide if their love is strong enough to draw them back together, but will the decision come too late?

Reviewed by leelu92 on

4 of 5 stars

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As a whole, I enjoyed Too Wild to Tame more than the first book in this series, Too Hot to Handle. I struggled with the Rita/Jasper pairing but I enjoyed the Clarkson family story and I had hoped to enjoy the second book in the series a bit more. Mission accomplished.

I’ll admit that I was quite pleasantly surprised by Aaron’s mega alpha tendencies regarding Grace. In fact, he reminded me of some of Ms. Bailey’s early alphas from her Line of Duty series and I loved that. This book and maybe the first, to an extent, carry a bit of an edge for me, it isn’t obvious or dark or anything but there is a sadness in the Clarkson family. They all have had their crosses to bear and that has created fissions within the Clarkson siblings. This road trip is certainly tilling up the soil and allowing the siblings to finally plant some new roots. Aaron carries his own dark and complicated issues that were planted in him as a child. These issues tie into the oldest Clarkson sibling, Belmont and it influenced how Aaron has lived his life and carried out relationships. Enter Grace… like a freaking wrecking ball, she pulverizes his neatly made little world.

I enjoyed the opposites attract aspect of their pairing. Grace was the artistic and creative wild child to Aaron’s buttoned up political consultant genius and it worked. There was a lot going on aside from the development of their relationship, lots of things happening with Peggy, Belmont and his paramour, Sage.

From book one, I knew that Peggy and Belmont’s books would be the ones I wanted most and that desire continues to grow. In this book, we learn a little bit more about Peggy and I’m definitely looking forward to her book but Belmont absolutely fascinates me and I suspect that book will be the most intense of all.

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