Wild Man, Kristen Ashley

I just started on "Wild Man" by Kristen Ashley. Well, I'm about 40 pages in and I am not sure if I should stop reading or give the book a chance and hope it gets better. There are plenty of good reviews about this book though...

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While filling her display case in her bakery, the bell over the door sounds and Tessa O’Hara looks up and sees the man of her dreams. Within thirty seconds he asks her out for a beer. Thirty seconds later, she says yes. But after four months of falling in love, she discovers he’s an undercover DEA Agent investigating the possibility she’s involved in her ex-husband’s drug business

Obviously Tess decides this means it’s over.

But DEA Agent Brock Lucas disagrees. A man on a mission who’s really committed to his job, he’s spent years in the underbelly of Denver with the dregs of society. And spending four months with Tess who’s as sweet as her cupcakes, he seriously enjoyed his job. But during Tess’s interrogation, Brock learns the devastating secret Tess is carrying and he’s determined to be the man who helps her heal as well as take her back as she walks on the wild side.

As wild and sweet mix, they face challenge after challenge of family struggling with history and terminal illness. Not to mention, Tess’s ex-husband, the drug lord and Brock’s ex-wife, who has a very big playbook are scheming to tear them apart.

But Brock Lucas has wild in him and once in his past on the trail of vengeance he let that wild loose, making a mistake that he would have no idea years later will put his sweet Tess in the position to pay his penance.

Now, the synopsis sounded pretty good. However, I dislike how ...abrasive and insensitive Brock was. He either ignored or brushed off what he did not want to hear. It was mainly how Brock treated Tessa in the beginning that turned me off from the book. I get that it was his job, but I could never have just "get over it" like Tessa did. I would've made him get on his knees and beg for forgiveness. He has to work for it!

Tessa disappointed me quite a bit. Maybe it is because I like my main girl characters to be a little more fiesty. But she seems to be obsessed with the idea of having her happy-ever-after that she just takes and accepts his shit just like that. Not to say that she is a doormat as she can be quite fiesty at times but she just gives in too easily for my liking.

One thing I do like is how true they are to each other, their chemistry and how tender Brock is to Tessa. I won't say Brock is our typical Alpha male, he is bossy, possessive, confident, protective etc etc. But something just did not work for me. 

Rating: ♪ ♪ did not finish