See below) and it made it really easy to sink into the story and let it take me along for one heck of a ride! What didn’t work for me?Īnna – Sometimes, only sometimes, she didn’t show quite enough grit for me. The writing – The narrative style was smooth (for the most part. I was a little worried at first that it was gonna go down with the hot and sweaty and not much else, but I really enjoyed Anna’s story and also the glimpses into Xavier’s past. I also got proper caught up in the excitement when Anna watches the wrestling from the side of the ramp! I felt like clapping! Ha!
It had natural ups and downs, highs and lows of feeling and reaction and has those wonderfully ‘human’ moments where you want to shake the characters by the shoulders and say ‘don’t be stupid!’ – but that’s what we are most of the time. The emotion – I really admire how the author pitched the tone of this book. I used to have a poster of The Rock on my bedroom wall. And oh yeah, a badass wrestler? Now, I used to be quite the fan of wrestling, so I found it really easy to imagine all these big, badass mofos. He’s big, he’s bad and he has a freakin’ motorbike! I was so on board with this guy. if there are any! Oh heck, you know what I mean right? This kind of book isn’t what I’d normally go for, so I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to the expectations or possible ‘rules’ when it comes to this genre. I need sleep! LOL)įYI – This book was part of my ‘Shaking up my Bookshelf’ effort. It grabbed me! And I ended up reading this book in one sitting (and one very late night. It coloured my view of the story before I even started reading it and I was wary of the heavy press of cliche and been there, done that.īut! I was pleasantly surprised by the actual read itself. Honestly, the blurb does not do this book any favours. One night forced to share a bed in a sold-out hotel, lines blur between them and they quickly learn that one lustful night changes everything and neither one of them will ever be the same.” Phenomenal X has an animalistic nature that even good girl Anna finds hard to resist. Tired of living under the thumb of her conservative family, she defies them when she accepts a job as the assistant to wrestling’s most notorious bad-boy. His muscular physique makes men cower before him and women lose their minds with desire.Īnna Cortez is fresh out of college and naive to the harsh realities of the real world. One Phenomenal Love.įrom the mean streets of Detroit rises the newest superstar of professional wrestling, Xavier Cold, better known as Phenomenal X.
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