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    All Jacked Up
    All Jacked Up
    All Jacked Up
    Audiobook10 hours

    All Jacked Up

    Written by Lorelei James

    Narrated by Rebecca Estrella

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    About this audiobook

    Keely McKay knows Jack—and Jack Donohue is a certified pain in her Wranglers. Keely needs another man giving her orders like she needs a hole in her boot. What she does need is a restoration specialist so she can open her physical therapy clinic. His price? Act the part of his loving fiancée. Their sizzling lust makes it all too easy to go from butting heads to knocking boots—but outside the bedroom they're as mismatched as ever. Now Jack and Keely must face the fact they're not fooling anyone but themselves—or risk losing the real deal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsatiable Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2014
    ISBN9781624611674
    All Jacked Up
    Author

    Lorelei James

    Lorelei James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary erotic romances. Lorelei lives in western South Dakota with her family.

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    • 5/5
      Great series.
    • 4/5
      One of the things that I like about a series like this is that you get to know a little bit about all the characters in each book. By the time we get to these characters they are already familiar. I enjoyed the story.
    • 2/5
      2.5 stars

      I'm sorry to say that I didn't like this book. Jack and Keely's "fake" relationship seemed fake the entire book. There wasn't a connection and their feelings for each didn't seem real. Jack was unlikeable and I never warmed up to him. I felt he was an ass numerous times to Keely and I thought she forgave him way too quickly. She seemed smart and stuck up for herself at times, but should have kicked Jack to the curb. She deserved better. This was a disappointing read since I enjoyed the previous books in this series.
    • 5/5
      Romantic, funny, tense, hot with a happy ending. Yummy!
    • 3/5
      Redeamed by a better than expected ending, but the endless tiring baby parade, land mines in Romania and a pretty flawed and predictable plot leaves it at 3 stars.
    • 4/5
      The eighth offering in James' popular Rough Riders series, All Jacked Up pits wild child Keely McKay against the buttoned-up Jack Donaghue in an explosive battle of wills. I would argue it's James' strongest offering to date.

      Keely, looking to shed her wild child status, bought a derelict historic building she's looking to renovate and turn into a health clinic. Historic preservation rules require a certified restoration specialist to oversee the project, and Jack's the man for the job. Despite a history of antagonism between them, Jack agrees to take on the job, with a small caveat - that they get engaged. Jack needs to play the part of a family man to get a large contract in conservative Utah, and Keely needs a restoration specialist. Thusly, a sham engagement is born, and hijinks ensue.

      All Jacked Up is a treat to read from start to finish. James builds sexual tension up slowly and stretches the emotional conflict to span the entire book. There are no superfluous sex scenes here like in some previous books. Each scene peels another layer of their defenses away, revealing the happy couple buried far beneath.

      Each character maintains their personalities. They begin the book two hot heads and they end the book as hot heads. James avoided turning one or the other into an acquiescent limp rag. Instead, they continue to bicker, but the bickering changes in tone and the make up sex gets hotter as their attachment grows. These two are that couple you know who love to argue all the time, but are unequivocally devoted to each other, even if they'd never admit it out loud. James has them work through their insecurities to get what they both want, but aren't brave enough to ask for.

      Like previous books in the series, All Jacked up does suffer from a Parade of Past Protagonists. Anyone picking this up as a standalone would be dizzy trying to keep track of the secondary characters and their army of offspring, who truthfully add little to the story beyond fan service (not that kind.) If James had focused on a smaller circle of her family and friends, rather than inundating the book with every relation she's created, it would have made for a much tighter narrative.

      All told, I found this to be the strongest book in the series. The focus on the hero and heroine was refreshing and their issues were worked through thoroughly, slowly and believably.

    • 5/5
      These books just keep getting better and better. I laughed off and on all through this story. Jack is the perfect mate for Keely. Having dealt with her brothers all her life and learning how to get around them and every other male she has come across Jack isn't taking any of her nonsense. I like how this relationship evolves from a sniping match into a love affair. Jack is all dominant bad boy and oh so drool worthy. One of the biggest laughs I am was at the engagment party and each of the McKay brothers threatening to gut Jack. Having a brother and father that more or less did the same with each of the husband that was brought into the family it hit a definite nerve. I am looking forward to any and all future books.