A review by bananatricky
Hot Mess by Amy Andrews

3.0

Logan Knight is the son and the grandson of firefighters and he and his cousins are all firefighters in Brisbane, Australia. On the day of his grandfather's funeral he sees a young woman sitting outside the fire-station, imagine his surprise when it turns out to be Arabella Tucker, the girl he loved nine years ago.

Arabella has no recollection of Logan, she was in an accident and has amnesia. She doesn't remember that they moved in together or that after a tragedy she sunk into a deep depression and left him. But she does find the mysterious stranger very attractive and soon they embark on a hot and steamy love affair. But Logan hasn't been completely honest about their past, and it's gonna come back to bite him!

Grrrrh, all I seem to be writing today is "I liked it, but I didn't love it". I've skirted around what happened in the past, although it is revealed fairly early in the novel, to avoid spoiling but really that is all that happens. And they have lots of sex. All their talking seems to happen off-stage as it were, I have no idea whether they see anything in each other except animal attraction because there doesn't seem to be much connection. I didn't really connect to either Arabella or Logan, I was more interested in whether Logan's cousin Duncan and Ruth, the female firefighter will get together.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.