Review: All I Want by Jill Shalvis

Posted September 13, 2015 by Elizabeth in Elizabeth B, Reviews / 0 Comments

Review: All I Want by Jill ShalvisAll I Want by Jill Shalvis
Series: Animal Magnetism #7
Published by Berkley Publication Date: October 6th 2015
Pages: 304
Also in this series: Still the One
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four-stars
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From the β€œawesomely, incredibly talented”* New York Times bestselling author of Still the One, comes a sexy new Animal Magnetism novel set in Sunshine, Idaho, where the sky is the limit when it comes to love.
Pilot-for-hire Zoe Stone is happy to call Sunshine, Idaho, her home base. But her quiet life is thrown for a loop when her brother’s friend Parker comes to stay with her for a week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent is a handsome flirt with a gift for getting under her skin. And the situation only escalates when Parker hires her to fly him around the area while he collects evidence on a suspected smuggler.
Now she has to live and work with the guy. But when they’re in the air, she sees another side of him. He’s driven, focused, and sharp. And while he enjoys giving commentary on her blind dates, she quickly realizes with a shock that it’s Parker who gets her engines going…

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In All I Want, we return the Sunshine, ID for the seventh installment of the Animal Magnetism series. This time we are spending time with Zoe, the sister of Wyatt and Darcy, whom we have met and seen glimpses of in previous books. We meet a new character, Parker, who is a college friend of Wyatt’s and needs a temporary place to stay while he is in town for work and a sabbatical.

The glimpses we have seen of Zoe previously really haven’t told us too much about her, so reading All I Want was really like reading a completely stand-alone novel about two brand new characters, a fact I enjoyed.

Ms. Shalvis delivers exactly what her fans have come to expect from her in terms of characters. Zoe is a smart, somewhat snarky heroine who is slightly wounded by life, but is determined to make her way. Parker is a sexy, alpha male in law enforcement who ends up being blindsided by love. The cast of secondary characters isn’t huge and honestly, they mainly add color and a little more detail about our hero and heroine. Watching Parker’s interactions with his sister and the kittens told us a lot about who he is as a person. I loved the little things he did for Zoe from the moment he met her, you just knew he was a great guy.

Zoe and Parker are a fun couple to spend time with and you really root for them as the story moves along. There is more of an action/suspense element to this story and it was a fun addition. There are no surprises in All I Want, but for me, it is one of the stronger entries into the Animal Magnetism series.

About Jill Shalvis

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s sexy contemporary and award-winning books wherever romances are sold and click on the blog button above for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.

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I am a full time mom who works part time. I squeeze reading in wherever I can between work, volunteer stuff, and kid activities. I read a little bit of everything, but really enjoy indie authors and Happy- Ever-Afters. I've been reviewing for Cocktails and Books since January 2015.