Beards, brothers, and bikers! Oh my!
Identical twins Beau and Duane Winston might share the same devastatingly handsome face, but where Beau is outgoing and sociable, Duane is broody and reserved. This is why Jessica James, recent college graduate and perpetual level-headed good girl, has been in naïve and unhealthy infatuation with Beau Winston for most of her life.
His friendly smiles make her tongue-tied and weak-kneed, and she’s never been able to move beyond her childhood crush. Whereas Duane and Jessica have always been adversaries. She can’t stand him, and she’s pretty sure he can’t stand the sight of her…
But after a case of mistaken identity, Jessica finds herself in a massive confusion kerfuffle. Jessica James has spent her whole life paralyzed by the fantasy of Beau and her assumptions of Duane’s disdain; therefore she’s unprepared for the reality that is Duane’s insatiable interest, as well as his hot hands and hot mouth and hotter looks. Not helping Jessica’s muddled mind and good girl sensibilities, Duane seems to have gotten himself in trouble with the local biker gang, the Iron Order.
Certainly, Beau’s magic spell is broken. Yet when Jessica finds herself drawn to the man who was always her adversary, now more dangerous than ever, how much of her level-head heart is she willing to risk?
I was kind of disappointed by this one, to be honest. It wasn't bad by any means, but it didn't have the magic of the Knitting in the City series and didn't flow quite as well.
While I liked Duane & Jessica, I also felt like their set-up was kind of lazy. Yeah, you were actually in love with him since childhood. Just roll with it! It felt like just a stepping stone for the sexy times, and there was too much emphasis on the physical for me, as opposed to the lovely enemies-to-lovers trope that I adore and the synopsis kind of made me expect.
Also, at different points Duane got on my nerves. For someone who's been in love with Jess for ages, he sure takes his sweet time with it and has to be knocked over by his siblings multiple times to make the right choices.
Ultimately, I feel like this was missing something, and I'm more interested in Clair (is she going to be Billy's love interest? He was interested in her, for sure) than I am in Duane & Jess.
Also - Jess's dad is super obvious and WHY didn't we get into it in this story?? We could have cut the hesitation bullshit in half and had a more interesting issue of dealing with that Pandora's box.
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7 January, 2017:
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