Warm Up With The Wilders

So this week’s book by Jill Shalvis was Instant Attraction and I give it 4 smutty stars…what that means I don’t know, but the book was good!  The book opens when beautiful Katie Kramer is woken up in the middle of the night by a hot, handsome, strong, well defined, green eyes searing, rugged, out doorsy, bulging…um biceps…focus Meg…a guy, named Cameron Wilder.  Katie is sleeping in Cameron’s (Cam) bed and we quickly learn that Katie is staying in Cam’s cabin on his family’s Wilder Adventures Mountain Lodge.  Katie took a temporary job at Wilder Adventures as part of a new promise to herself to take risks and live life to the fullest, a concept that is very foreign to her.  Cam has been gone for a year doing a little soul searching via a little continent hopping and his return to Wilder is a shock to not only Katie, but his two brothers.  Cam and Katie are instantly attracted (oh that clever title) to each other, though both leery and hesitant.  They both reveal deep wounds they are trying to heal to each other.  Katie was the sole survivor of a horrific bridge collapse and deals with horrible anxiety attacks and survivors guilt.  Cam was a hot shot X-Games superstar snowboarder living the life of extravagant travel and high paying endorsement deals, until a bad boarding accident ended his career and left him with a bad knee.  Cam is trying to figure out who he is and is wondering if he’ll ever feel again the passion and drive he felt for snow boarding. 

Drawn to her like a moth to a flame, Cam becomes determined to help Katie heal and to help her fulfill her wish to life a full life.  While he’s busy trying to save Katie, Katie actually ends up saving Cam and his hopelessness.  Along the way they face the obstacles of jealous exes and more importantly the fact that Katie only plans to stay at Wilder for a month and then plans to move on to another life adventure.  In between all of this chaos, they find plenty of time to live life to the fullest in between the sheets and even on top of a mountain, in the snow, under the stars (where do I sign up?).

I’ll stop there before revealing too much, but again it’s a good read.  After all, I am a sucker for any story that involves a damaged, lost or troubled hot guy finding a woman that he loves enough to change, a woman that sparks hope in him and a woman that makes he want to be a better man.  Whether it’s Christian Grey, Gideon Cross or Cam Wilder, let’s face it we women melt, swoon and fall hard when it comes to this kind of story line.  Won’t lie, I’m also drawn to this story as a women married to a mountain man from the backwoods of Pennsylvania…aka Pennsyltuky.  I love me a good rugged, good with his hands man of nature!  There are some supporting characters with supporting stories, blah, blah, blah but really who cares, I’m in it for the Cam action!  And good news, the previously mention 2 Wilder brothers = 2 more books!

Les and I have decided that in our warped smutty minds Cam looks like the pretty piece of eye candy shamelessly/shamefully (you decide) displayed below.  This is actually Andrew Cooper who is causing major heart palpitations across the nation in the new diet something or other commercials…who cares what he’s selling, I’ll buy it if he comes with it! 

- Meg