waterfairy's review
4.0
I loved this book. The author writes such good contemporary romance. This book is a road trip romance with a police aspect. I appreciate that the author didn't throw sex scenes where it doesn't make sense (like when you are hiding out from a bad guy and they just go at each other without realizing the risks). What I'm trying to say is that romance aspect is very well done. The closeness during the road trip make it work. Especially considering these two people knew each other for less than a 10 days before declaring. The sex scenes are a bit bland (admittedly I'm not one for them)
I'm definitely reading her backlist. Aussie authors have been a hit for me so far. I love the new locations/slangs and the differences.
I'm definitely reading her backlist. Aussie authors have been a hit for me so far. I love the new locations/slangs and the differences.
paddlefoot55's review
5.0
ARC received from Harlequin Enterprises Australia/Escape Publishing via Netgalley for honest review
I have been a fan of Ms Paton's work since I read Detained - if you haven't read it, go do it ~ NOW. And I was very excited to get an advanced copy of Floored to read and review (especially after seeing the cover with Mr Visible Panty Line~!!
And I was definitely not disappointed.
Floored is an Aussie road trip story, with a bit of an Underbelly/Sons of Anarchy feel to it, with a dose of romance thrown in for good measure.
Fetch/Sean is the messenger boy for Wacker,, president of an outlaw motor cycle club. As you expect, they are into all kinds of illegal activities ~ drugs, money laundering. He's the butt of all their jokes, a little slow on the uptake.
Or is he??
Caitlyn/Driver has troubles in her past she is trying to avoid. Now working as a hire car driver, the last thing she expects is a biker to jump in the back of her car. As scared as she is of him, she is drawn to him. He can't be all that bad, right? Even if he is getting her to drive him to his drop offs all over town.
When things take a bad turn, that's when things start to heat up.
Buckle up, because you are about to be taken on one hell of a ride!
Australia is a big country, and when Fetch/Driver - Sean/Cait take on a cross country drive, things start to heat up! Not much to do on a 4,000km road trip but get to know each other.
And get to know each other they do! There is still a lot of mistrust between the pair, but that simmering attraction has to lead to a little something-something.
Of course, pasts never stay in the past, but how will it affect Sean and Cait?
Uh uh, not telling.
One thing I always love about Ms Paton's work is, being a fellow Australian I know about/have been to many of the places she is writing about, and it makes it a lot easier to picture for a change - yay!!
And another thing that I loved ~ Ms Paton does not romanticise the life of the outlaw motorcycle clubs. We get the dirt, the grit, the downright horrible side of that lifestyle.
Ms Paton doesn't write a traditional romance, so you never know what you are going to get when you pick up one of her novels. When things went well for Sean/Cait I couldn't help but smile. When things went bad, I might have shed a tear.
If you are after a romance with a lot of twists and turns in the road, make sure you check out Floored, and any of Ms Paton's work for that matter.
Now, what to you have for us next?
I have been a fan of Ms Paton's work since I read Detained - if you haven't read it, go do it ~ NOW. And I was very excited to get an advanced copy of Floored to read and review (especially after seeing the cover with Mr Visible Panty Line~!!
And I was definitely not disappointed.
Floored is an Aussie road trip story, with a bit of an Underbelly/Sons of Anarchy feel to it, with a dose of romance thrown in for good measure.
Fetch/Sean is the messenger boy for Wacker,, president of an outlaw motor cycle club. As you expect, they are into all kinds of illegal activities ~ drugs, money laundering. He's the butt of all their jokes, a little slow on the uptake.
Or is he??
Caitlyn/Driver has troubles in her past she is trying to avoid. Now working as a hire car driver, the last thing she expects is a biker to jump in the back of her car. As scared as she is of him, she is drawn to him. He can't be all that bad, right? Even if he is getting her to drive him to his drop offs all over town.
When things take a bad turn, that's when things start to heat up.
Buckle up, because you are about to be taken on one hell of a ride!
Australia is a big country, and when Fetch/Driver - Sean/Cait take on a cross country drive, things start to heat up! Not much to do on a 4,000km road trip but get to know each other.
And get to know each other they do! There is still a lot of mistrust between the pair, but that simmering attraction has to lead to a little something-something.
Of course, pasts never stay in the past, but how will it affect Sean and Cait?
Uh uh, not telling.
One thing I always love about Ms Paton's work is, being a fellow Australian I know about/have been to many of the places she is writing about, and it makes it a lot easier to picture for a change - yay!!
And another thing that I loved ~ Ms Paton does not romanticise the life of the outlaw motorcycle clubs. We get the dirt, the grit, the downright horrible side of that lifestyle.
Ms Paton doesn't write a traditional romance, so you never know what you are going to get when you pick up one of her novels. When things went well for Sean/Cait I couldn't help but smile. When things went bad, I might have shed a tear.
If you are after a romance with a lot of twists and turns in the road, make sure you check out Floored, and any of Ms Paton's work for that matter.
Now, what to you have for us next?
slc333's review
1.0
1.5 stars. DNF at 50 % because I was so freaking bored and I didn't like either of the characters.
I disliked Sean/Fetch with his controlling, manipulative behaviour. And owning the fact that you are controlling and manipluative doesn't make it any better unless you make the attempt to change.
Cait annoyed with her wishy washy back n forth:
- 'No I don't want anything to do with you I shall try to run away' and 'What do you mean you will hire a car and I can go - how dare you try to leave without finishing our deal'.
- 'the rules are sit in the back and don't talk to me'"why aren't you talking to me?"
Then it was all 'I hate you' "I want to sleep with you' "You rejected me, I hate you'
"I don't trust you" "Here is my life story that I don't share with anyone".
It was very irritating.
I disliked Sean/Fetch with his controlling, manipulative behaviour. And owning the fact that you are controlling and manipluative doesn't make it any better unless you make the attempt to change.
Cait annoyed with her wishy washy back n forth:
- 'No I don't want anything to do with you I shall try to run away' and 'What do you mean you will hire a car and I can go - how dare you try to leave without finishing our deal'.
- 'the rules are sit in the back and don't talk to me'"why aren't you talking to me?"
Then it was all 'I hate you' "I want to sleep with you' "You rejected me, I hate you'
"I don't trust you" "Here is my life story that I don't share with anyone".
It was very irritating.
deannasworld's review
4.0
This book surprised me. The blurb for the book really tells you nothing much about the book at all so I had no idea what I was getting with this book when I started reading it.
The book opens with a grittiness that makes you think you're in for a dark, rough ride through biker-land with gang wars and drive by shootings, instead what you get after the few opening chapters is a slow meander through a literary landscape that flows like a slow, steady river that is constantly moving and urging you forward.
The drive from Sydney to Perth is very much like an physical manifestation of a metaphor for the developing relationship between Fetch and Driver as it evolves over time into Sean and Cait. It serves as an interesting backdrop as something to do while they discover who they are to each other.
It's fascinating to discover that when you think it's really Fetch who is the one who should be running and hiding, it's Driver instead who is doing that. The dynamics of the relationship change as Fetch turns into Sean and Driver becomes Cait, and Sean is wanting more from Cait. Wanting to know her, wanting to protect her, wanting her. It's a beautiful dance as you watch Cait try to resist Sean and his relentless pursuit and charm and finally succumb.
I love that this book had the ability to surprise me as it did and then engage my attention. It's beautifully and lyrically written. Well done, Ms Paton.
The book opens with a grittiness that makes you think you're in for a dark, rough ride through biker-land with gang wars and drive by shootings, instead what you get after the few opening chapters is a slow meander through a literary landscape that flows like a slow, steady river that is constantly moving and urging you forward.
The drive from Sydney to Perth is very much like an physical manifestation of a metaphor for the developing relationship between Fetch and Driver as it evolves over time into Sean and Cait. It serves as an interesting backdrop as something to do while they discover who they are to each other.
It's fascinating to discover that when you think it's really Fetch who is the one who should be running and hiding, it's Driver instead who is doing that. The dynamics of the relationship change as Fetch turns into Sean and Driver becomes Cait, and Sean is wanting more from Cait. Wanting to know her, wanting to protect her, wanting her. It's a beautiful dance as you watch Cait try to resist Sean and his relentless pursuit and charm and finally succumb.
I love that this book had the ability to surprise me as it did and then engage my attention. It's beautifully and lyrically written. Well done, Ms Paton.
kiwicoral's review
3.0
2.5 but I'll round up for the unabashed Aussie-ness.
This book felt longer than a road trip from Sydney to Perth. There was so much back and forth, push and pull, that character arcs got muddled. And a lot of showing, rather than telling.
I did like the part where it was the two leads by themselves. All the other plot threads jumbled everything up.
This book felt longer than a road trip from Sydney to Perth. There was so much back and forth, push and pull, that character arcs got muddled. And a lot of showing, rather than telling.
I did like the part where it was the two leads by themselves. All the other plot threads jumbled everything up.
susanscribs's review
4.0
Another take-no-prisoners romance from Ainslie Paton, one of my few auto-buy contemporary romance authors. It's apparent from the start that neither the motorcycle club errand boy "Fetch" nor the buttoned-up female chauffeur "Driver" are what they appear at first glance. There's a lot of attraction but very little trust. After a fairly explosive start, the novel settles into a leisurely road romance as our hero and heroine gradually open up to each other while at first resisting, then giving in to, their urges in several extremely hot chapters. Then the stakes are raised and everything they gained together appears to be lost.
I'm being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers, but I can say that Paton did such a good job of building a credible relationship that develops over a few short days that I was almost sick to my stomach during the chapters in which the hero and heroine were angry with and distrustful of each other. There was a little too much heroine-humbling for my liking, although the hero does an impressive amount of groveling to make up for it. For the record, while "Fetch" does exhibit a certain amount of "I know what's best for you" attitude, he is nowhere near as controlling and manipulative as the hero in Paton's previous novel, Detained (which I still loved).
What else can I say? Great internal angst and external dialogue. Sex. Danger. A secondary character named Stud. And Paton throws in a sick abandoned dog! You will end up feeling bruised and battered by this novel, but ultimately redeemed.
ARC received from NetGalley in return for honest review.
I'm being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers, but I can say that Paton did such a good job of building a credible relationship that develops over a few short days that I was almost sick to my stomach during the chapters in which the hero and heroine were angry with and distrustful of each other. There was a little too much heroine-humbling for my liking, although the hero does an impressive amount of groveling to make up for it. For the record, while "Fetch" does exhibit a certain amount of "I know what's best for you" attitude, he is nowhere near as controlling and manipulative as the hero in Paton's previous novel, Detained (which I still loved).
What else can I say? Great internal angst and external dialogue. Sex. Danger. A secondary character named Stud. And Paton throws in a sick abandoned dog! You will end up feeling bruised and battered by this novel, but ultimately redeemed.
ARC received from NetGalley in return for honest review.
bibliobeka's review
2.0
I really liked the beginning, but the second half of this book was just ridiculous.
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