Sledgehammer by P. Dangelico Series: Hard to Love, #2
Publication Date: September 11th 2017
Also in this series: Reckless Love, Wrecking Ball, Bulldozer
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Amber Jones is in a pickle.
And when I say pickle, I mean deep doo-doo.
She knew she shouldn’t have gone to her ex’s New Year’s Eve party. And she reeeaally didn’t mean to almost burn down his house.
Now she needs a good lawyer, stat. But where to find one?
All work and no play make Ethan Vaughn a very sad and lonely lawyer.
He really shouldn’t have agreed to help his best friend’s wife’s bestie with her imbroglio.
His attention should be focused on representing his NFL clients, not on an accident-prone, struggling actress.
Except now she’s remanded on bail––and living in his house.
The woman is a walking, talking category five hurricane. And considering his track record with women, he needs to stay as far away from this one as possible.
Problem is, he just can't seem to make himself.
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This is the second book in the Hard to Love series and each book is a standalone. I loved reading WRECKING BALL, the first book in this series and was excited to read this one. Amber Jones was the wacky, fun and irreverent friend in WRECKING BALL and now we learn her story.
Ethan Vaughn is an attorney and sports agent. When Amber gets into trouble, Ethan offers to help her and invites Amber to live with him for three months. These two couldn’t be more different from each other and I enjoyed all the sarcastic lines flowing between Amber and Ethan. Ethan is an uptight attorney and Amber is a struggling actress with an attitude. Their relationship goes through a transformation. Starting out as barely knowing each other and getting closer to one another as time goes by. Amber doesn’t take Ethan seriously and is constantly teasing him and he isn’t sure what of make of her.
My biggest problem with this story was that I found it hard to connect to Amber. She is tough and hard and not happy with herself and takes it out on everyone around her. On the other hand, it is easy to like Ethan. He is a great guy and is always nice to Amber but she keeps knocking him down with her sarcastic remarks. After a while, I wondered why Ethan put up with Amber. I also thought their relationship developed too slowly. Unfortunately, I didn’t like this book as much as the first one in this series.
