The Hookup (Moonlight and Motor Oil #1) by Kristen Ashley

 Isn't this cover absolutely gorgeous? 

And so is the rest of the book...

The Hookup by Kristen Ashley

Blurb:

When the new girl in town, Eliza “Izzy” Forrester decides to hit the local drinking hole, she’s not ready to meet the town’s good, solid guy. She’s definitely not prepared to engage in her very first hookup with him.

Then Izzy wakes up the next morning in Johnny Gamble’s bed and good girl Izzy finds she likes being bad for Johnny.

Even so, Izzy feels Johnny holding her at arm’s length. But Johnny makes it clear he wants more and Izzy already knows she wants as much of hot-in-bed, sweet-out-of-it Johnny Gamble.

Floating on air thinking this is going somewhere, Izzy quickly learns why Johnny holds distant.

He’s in love with someone else. Someone who left him and did it leaving him broken. Whoever was up next would be runner up, second best. Knowing the stakes, Izzy will take what she can get from the gentleman that’s Johnny Gamble. And even knowing his heart might never mend, Johnny can’t seem to stay away from Izzy.

Until out of nowhere, his lost love comes back to town. He’s not going back, but Johnny still knows the right thing to do is let Izzy go.

And Izzy knew the stakes, so she makes it easy and slips through his fingers.

But that’s before Johnny realizes Eliza moved to town to escape danger that’s been swirling around her.

And that’s why Johnny decides to wade in.

That and the fact Eliza Forrester makes breakfast with a canary singing on her shoulder and fills out tight dresses in a way Johnny Gamble cannot get out of his head.


The Hookup - well, this book certainly got me hooked and not only on this book but I had to go straight back online and get another book by the author!

I can't even say what exactly made this book so special, I think I fell for the hero and the heroine right from the start even though the hero's problems sometimes made me a bit annoyed. He was hung up on a memory and I was furious that he didn't see, well...
Izzy was just someone that I'd love to get to know and hang out with. I love her attitude, the way she cares for others and her inner strength that made her overcome everything that she experienced in her childhood and hold on to the good things that happened.
I loved to see Johnny getting drawn in by her and never really understanding what hit him. He tried to resist, he really tried. And failed.

Those characters, as well as the minor characters, are multi-layered, interesting and authentic, they are not perfect, they are flawed and they certainly don't hold back on the f-bomb front and there's also explicit sex, so if you mind any of those things, well, this might not be the book for you. Otherwise, I can just say that this book drew me in from the first page on and I simply couldn't put it down. Needless to say that I had a really really short night that day...

And now I simply can't wait for the second book in this series, The Slow Burn (Moonlight and Motor Oil #2) which will go live on April 30th!

 ★★★★★