Fun fast-paced and steamy read. After her fiancé dumps her for an exotic dancer Sarah decides it is time for a change and decides to take a trip to Ireland. There she meets Cian and finds that change she is looking for but when it is time to go home what will she do? Great characters, the story is entertaining and the chemistry steamy. I really liked it.

This won’t be a complicated decision, folks. The book synopsis pretty much sums this one up perfectly. If it appeals to you, then you likely won’t be disappointed in the actual storyline.

Oh, mercy me! Sarah Mercer has it bad for her hot Irish landlord at first glance. Though they’ve flirted on line, there is nothing like the real thing up close and personal. Cian Murphy seems to feel the same. This unapologetic lover of women, all shapes, sizes, and nationalities, has travelled the world and sampled more than just their cuisine and scenery, folks. Yeah, he must have been a sailor in another life, because it sounds like he left a girl behind in every port. But since flirting on-line with Sarah, well, she’s all he’s been able to think about.

The luck of the Irish seems to be on Sarah’s side as she soon is thinking, “Ross, who?” Well, let me fill you in. He’s the four year long, poor excuse of a fiancee that dumped her right before she packed her bags to rediscover herself for a couple of months in the Emerald Isle.

Once they give into temptation, steamy scenes take over and an inevitable showdown leads one of them to make a life-changing decision. I struggled a little when a kind gestures was thought of as being manipulative by one of them. For me it seemed petty and immature to think along those lines. But, hey, the author needed a plot to throw in some drama to draw it to a close, so I shrugged it off. The chosen method of apologizing at least was sweet. The “whoa is me”, “everyone tells me how to live” damsel in distress was laid on a tad too thick for my taste, as well.

If you love an Irishman and want a short, very steamy read that focuses mainly on the main couple’s chemistry and smexy scenes, you’ve likely found it in this one.

Title: Kiss of the Irish, Series: Foreign Fling (Book 1), Author: Lauren Hawkeye, Pages: 180, tattooed/pierced/bar owner Irish hero who has been with lots of OW, nonvirgin main couple, recently dumped heroine, very graphic steamy scenes, get what you read in the synopsis, somewhat predictable but romantic ending, former doormat heroine, reformed “love ‘em & leave ‘em” hero.

(I received an advanced reader copy via NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. No compensation was provided to me, nor do I have any affiliation with the author/publisher/NetGalley. This review will be posted on Amazon, Goodreads, NetGalley, and Barnes & Noble.)

Kiss of the Irish by Lauren Hawkeye is a sexy romance filled with just enough sweetness to make any reader swoon with how charming and alpha Cian Murphy is.

Sarah Mercer decides she needs a change after her fiancé breaks things off with her for an exotic dancer. Hurt and confused on what to do now, on a whim, Sarah decides to go to Ireland for two months and rents a flat from Cian, whom on first night in Ireland she kisses impulsively. Fueling an attraction that slowly rises as these two characters begin to know one another more and Sarah begins to find herself again out on her own away from her ex and the control of her family.

I enjoyed Kiss of the Irish. It is a simple and romantic with likable characters who are relatable and genuine. Sarah is a strong heroine who goes to Ireland a little lost, but what she finds there is more than just the love of a good man, but self-love and confidence in herself and making her own choices, which I found made her character that more endearing to me as a reader especially near the end. And what an end!

Cian is great with words...verbal and written. That is all I will say on that. You'll have to read for yourself to find out more. I also liked Ainsley, Cian's sister, and Nell. They're fun supporting characters and helped bring humor to the story.

Overall, Kiss of the Irish by Lauren Hawkeye is a well-written romance that is both sexy and sweet, with just enough of both to please, any romance reader. I happily recommend.

(I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book I received for free from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my open and honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.)

This was a double win on this one first time for this author in reading and first in a series. This one was a fun and adventurous read with the romance. It centers around Sarah and Cian. Sarah now she has had a life changing event happen so change is her new road. Good for her because it will also give her one of her biggest adventures with scrumptious heading the helm. This also provides plenty of heat to burn any excess energy. It is good to have fun in a romance that carries you away as this one does. By the time you come to the conclusion of this one you know you will savor this kiss.

Kiss of the Irish is a hot with a dose of sweet. Sarah has come to Ireland for a vacation from her dull life, after her fiancé dumps her. When she meets the hot bartender at the bar she wanders into to get out of the storm (and to find her new landlord), she can't believe her eyes. He's gorgeous, tatted up and pierced. Much different than the d-bag ex fiancé she left behind in Boston. Much different in a really, really good way. When the hot bartender turns out to be her new landlord, things take a really interesting, even hotter turn. Cian is instantly smitten with his new tenant. She's sweet and curvy, and she's got his dirty mind thinking dirty thoughts. But, it's not just dirty, there's something about her obviously conservative, shy façade that has captured even his non sexual interest. He wants to figure out why there's so much sadness in her beautiful eyes, and to see if he can chase away that sadness.

As Sarah and Cian's relationship turns from merely tenant/landlord into a hot relationship, they're both falling hard. They've got an electric chemistry, this pair of seemingly opposites, and they really complement each other. He brings out the wild inside her that was just dying to come out. And she grounds this former wanderer, makes him feel like he's at peace. "Now with this woman in his arms, he finally felt like he'd come home."

I really like both Cian and Sarah, especially Cian. They're both great characters who mesh well. About the only thing I didn't like about Kiss of the Irish was the abrupt ending. It really needed an epilogue to give us a peak into how they are doing down the road.

This book appealed to me right away. I love Ireland and would love to pack up and move there. So a heroine that does just that? Amazing! Add in a sexy fling with an Irishman, total­ly hooked!

I found this book a very easy, fun read. Sarah needed encour­agement to come out of her shell. She ne­eded to learn who she was, not live based on others expectat­ions of her. Cian - yummy to describe in one word.

Give it a try, you will be transported to Ireland and enjoyi­ng the adventure!

With its hot Irish hero and welcoming small town, Kiss of the Irish is the kind of story that makes you want to pack your backs and hop on a plane to Ireland posthaste. Between the idyllic environment and the engaging characters, there’s no way I could resist this book.

My favorite thing about Kiss of the Irish is the characters. Sarah has always made safe choices, done what she was told to do, and has basically been so beaten down by the people who should have loved her that she has a hard time believing in herself. Despite all of this, there’s still spark and backbone in her. When her jerk of a fiancé dumps her, Sarah leaves Boston for an extended vacation in Ceanmore, Ireland. It’s there she meets her oh-so-hot new landlord, Cian, who is a completely drool-worthy hero. He’s a smart businessman who has a bit of a wild streak, not to mention some sexy ink and piercings. But what I loved best about Cian was how genuinely kind he is. He’s got a heart of gold and while he definitely has the hots for Sarah from the start, he puts her needs first. Her self-confidence has taken a severe hit when she first comes to Ceanmore, and he helps her build herself back up. Sarah comes into her own over the course of this story, and I loved watching her grow as a character. The romance between her and Cian is equally lovely to watch unfold. They’ve got crackling good chemistry and their love story is a good mix of sweet and sensual.

Kiss of the Irish is the first book in Lauren Hawkeye’s Foreign Fling series, and by the time I finished Saran and Cian’s story, I wanted the next book. I’ve got my fingers crossed Cian’s sister, Ainsley, and her best friend, Nell, get books, because those two were utterly delightful. Their kindness and humor rounded out the story and they were as important as Cian was in bringing Sarah out of her shell. All in all, Kiss of the Irish was an utterly delightful read and I cannot wait to read more of Ms. Hawkeye’s work!

This is the first book I've read by this author, and while there were some details that weren't quite good for me I can say "Kiss of the Irish" was a light, fun read.

I got interested in the book because the idea of an Irish hero sounded very appealing, and Cian, the love interest, didn't disappoint at all. He's incredibly charming and sweet, it's hard not to fall for him; although he's supposed to be a bad boy because of his tattoos and piercings, he doesn't really fit that category, in my opinion.
As for the heroine, Sarah, I liked how she started changing through the book, becoming more confident and strong. Of course I specially enjoyed reading how her relationship with Cian starts to develop, he's obviously interested and she feels a bit fascinated by him so I really liked how it all progresses.

Now what threw me off a bit is that I'm used to these kind of books to have an epilogue and this one doesn't have it, so I was left feeling like the story was cut short, that something was missing, so I wished the author had added that. Also Cian's piercings are notably mentioned, one in particular, so when they have a change to take things further, you kind of expect it to be mentioned but it isn't, so it does leave you wondering why.

But overall, this is a flirty, sweet and sexy read. I think it'd be fun to read more books in these series and hopefully details like the ones that give me a bit of trouble could be taken into account to make the upcoming ones better.

An engaging and fun read…
I found this book to be an engaging and fun read. The book was written well. It was my first time reading a book by this author and I really enjoyed it.
In this book Sarah rediscovered who she truly is. It took her traveling all the way to Ireland. At times we all have to escape our natural habitat in order to for us to heal and grow. Sarah needed this time to figure out what she really wanted in life. Many us are still on the journey of discovery.
Sarah as always done everything that her family, friends and fiancé told her would be best for her life. How can anyone be truly happy with that type of life? It took her fiancé committing an ultimate betrayal for Sarah to leave the life that was picked for her.
I liked that Sarah didn’t get all caught up in Cian and completing forgetting her purpose for going to Ireland.
Cian was a FINE added distraction or attraction for Sarah. Cian is free spirited guy who knows what he wants and is not afraid to go after it. He has the face, body, and piercings in all the right areas that makes us all minds go DIRTY…
Sarah’s and Cian’s relationship developed seamlessly. The sexual chemistry came off the pages. I liked that has Sarah began to rediscover herself, she found her strength.

I haven't read Lauren Hawkeye before but I heard a fellow blogger talking about this story and had to give it a try. Because of what this fellow blogger said I knew somewhat about what was going to happen in the story so I went in with my eyes wide open.

It's been a while since I've read a book based in Ireland so I really couldn't wait to try this one. Plus, add in the bad-boy hero and I couldn't wait to read it.

I'm glad I did. I really enjoyed Kiss of the Irish. I found the story to be a well-written, easily read story. I also really loved the characters. Cian has turned out to be one of my favorite hero's. I really connected with him. He's sweet, loving and has now grown-up.

I also liked Sarah. She needed a boast in confidence that she got from her new friends and Cian. After how her ex-fiance treated her she needed a life. One she could enjoy and live a little.

As much as I really enjoyed the story I did have a few issues with it. Very small ones. For one, I felt like I was missing something. I don't know what that is since I really enjoyed the story but it's there. And second, I felt the author need to add more about Cian's pierces and the way they felt during sex. Other then that, I'm glad I read the story.

Lauren Hawkeye’s Kiss of the Irish is a sweet and sexy romance that will make you want to take a trip to Ireland. Sarah Mercer’s fiancé unexpectedly broke up with her, and she feels lost and now questions her entire life. On the spur of the moment, she decides to take an extended trip to Ireland and rents a flat from bar owner Cian Murphy after they share a flirtatious email exchange.

When she arrives and meets Cian in person, she’s struck dumb with attraction. He’s not like any man she’s ever been interested in. He’s a bad boy, tattooed and pierced, and he’s also incredibly sexy. Cian has desired Sarah since their emails, and he sets out to convince her to have an Irish fling with him. Neither expects any feelings to develop between them, but these opposites find themselves romantically involved. Sarah will have to decide her life and whether she wants to make this temporary affair into something permanent.
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This is a sweet, sexy, easy read and I truly enjoyed it. I do think it could have been much more than it is though. It's low angst and fun to read so if that's what you're looking for grab this one!

Cian a hot! Tatted, pierced, and completely different from the guy Sarah has been with. Sarah is funny but just a little bit lost. I really wanted to see her develop a little more backbone than she did. She worried way to much about others doing what they wanted rather than what she wants. They are both great characters and I thought they worked well together.

I would recommend this one.

Kiss of the Irish by Lauren Hawkeye is Book 1 of the Foreign Fling Series.

Luuuuuuuurve.This.Story! The feels guys, the feels...it got to me all the way through this story. What a sweet and funny read that really hits you in the heart and holds it captive as follow along with Sarah's rediscovery of self and life. The characters, location and storyline were perfection and I really enjoyed the low drama/angst of this story.

Please note that an ARC was generously provided in exchange for an honest review of which this is both honest and completely voluntary.

3.5 STARS

Thanks to netgalley for this book , now here's my honest opinion.

This book wasn't bad. I actually finished in one sitting. That being said, It wasn't what it could have been either. Overall, I just felt a little disappointed in the story.

I love a good"bad boy" add tattoos , piercings, and Irish. I was all over it. I felt like the author wanted him, to seem like a "badboy" so she gave him all the goods but she didn't really go into it. Like we are told he has a piercings but we only told about the nipples and eyebrow. The h was all crazy about the nipples, he thinks "wait till she see my c@#k piercing". But when they do the deed and she sees him naked.....nothing is said about his Piercing, NOTHING! Not omg he pierced here or OMG I can feel it or OMG "that must hurt" NOTHING AT ALL! Also I think the h way over reacted to the H doing her a favor and a good deed at the end.

Ok, that was kinda a rant. I did like this book. I was just a little underwhelmed. I mean tattoos , piercings, and Irish. Oh well On to the next one...

Kiss of the Irish, by Lauren Hawkeye is an interesting contemporary romance.

Sarah Mercer leaves the United States, as well as her cheating fiance, to spend several months in a small town in Ireland with Cian Murphy as her landlord. Cian is a classically reformed Irish bad boy, who owns the flat she's renting, as well as the town's main pub.

The majority of the story takes place at the bar and their bed...focused Cian and Sarah's very intimate and active relationship. Also, the secondary characters are delightfully intriguing leading to humorous interactions.

Kiss of the Irish is geared towards those who enjoy reading intimate contemporary romances.


Note: I received this book from NetGalley, which is a program designed for bloggers to write book reviews in exchange for books, yet the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

I had such high hopes for Kiss of the Irish. Hell, the entire reason I grabbed this one is in the title itself – I have a weakness for Ireland and Irish heroes. This book has both. It should have made me a happy reader, but instead I was frustrated, pissed off at the hero, disappointed by cock-piercing-teasing, and ultimately unsatisfied by this read. Strap in, there’s another ranty review ahead!



Sarah has lived her entire life doing what was expected of her, giving up her dreams (painting) in order to do what her parents thought a more acceptable career choice (curator for art), etc, etc. When her fiancé leaves her for a stripper – sorry, burlesque dancer, as he points out – she decides a change is in order. She finds an ad for a flat for rent in a small Irish town, signs up for a summer course to finish up her master’s degree (Art History), and heads off to Ireland.


Again, this should have been something that appealed to me; I do like when a heroine breaks out of whatever shell or cage she’s been stuck in all her life and starts to have fun, starts to take control of her own life. Sadly, I never felt a connection to Sarah, so I didn't really care that she was doing this. It all fell flat.




S: Here's some advice from the opposite sex: a Facebook profile picture is not overly indicative of what a person really looks like. It's what the person wants the world to see.

C: Well, Ms. Mercer, here's some advice for you in return: every face that a person puts on has some inkling of their true self in it.




The hero, Cian, is the landlord for the flat she’s renting. He also owns a pub across the street, as well as some other businesses/properties in the area. Anyway, their first interaction, technically, is the emails when she’s first applying for the flat. There’s a bit of mild flirting in these emails, and again I thought “Okay, this should be good.” *sigh* But again, I never felt like this book reached its potential.




My first issue with this book starts in the very beginning, during the email exchange, when he sees a picture of Sarah on FB. This is the message he sends to her, I shit you not:




This woman [as in Sarah] is wearing far too much makeup, but it's not enough to hide the fact that her eyes -- gorgeous eyes, by the way -- are a little bit sad. Of course, the picture only shows your head. You could very well be one of those stick insect types who survives on kale. This will disappoint Mr. Gallagher [as in him] greatly.



No. NOOOOO. NOOOOOOPE. Repeat after me: a woman’s makeup – or lack thereof, for that matter – is entirely HER choice, and no one, least of all the man she’s supposed to fall for, gets to criticize her for having too much on. Not to mention the body shaming going on there, too. This is only a few pages into the book and I’m already giving him the side-eye. I still have some hope that it will improve, that I can . . . not forgive him, but find something good in him during the rest of the book, at least.



Oh, but then starts all his sex-obsessed thoughts about her. Which is a problem here because she just got to the country, is super jet lagged – to the point of falling asleep where she sits/stands – doesn’t technically know him, hasn’t showed interest in him outside of an awkward kind-of-flirting moment (while under the influence of jet-lag sleepiness) – and yet he can’t stop looking at her, thinking about her body and what he wants to do to it. Which is iffy enough, but then it only gets worse.



Because she’s about to fall asleep in his pub, he offers to help her over to her new flat. It’s raining and of course they get soaked on the way there. She’s still SUPER out of it, mind (though how a flight from the US to Ireland, rather than, say, to Australia or something, has her THIS out of it, I do not know), and he has to all but guide/carry her up to her flat. Okay, that’s kind of sweet of him. But then when she FALLS ASLEEP ON THE BED, he realizes he should take her wet clothes off for her. Again – iffy, but there’s some kindness/concern there, so I’m waiting to see how this turns out.



This is how it turns out: the entire time he’s trying to get her shirt off, his mind is going over how much he loves her curves, how tempted he is by them, and how he has to actually HOLD HIMSELF BACK from giving in and touching her.




If she wanted him right here, right now, he was more than willing. Cian could be out of his clothes in a trice, and he didn’t give a damn if the whole world were to see them…

No. No, she didn’t even know what she was doing. She wasn’t under the influence of anything, but neither was she in her right mind.

It took every iota of willpower he had, but Cian tore his mouth from hers. The way she looked up at him—mouth swollen, eyes glazed over with want—was almost enough to make him kiss her again, but he refrained.





Remember: they are strangers, SHE IS ASLEEP AND OUT OF IT, she has not verbally given him a reason to believe she’d consent to anything between them, period.




Damp hair in a tangle on the pillow, Sarah started to snore so suddenly that she startled a laugh out of him, and then a curse when he realized that the clothing she was wearing was completely soaked.

He wasn’t changing her out of them. He had self-control, but he wasn’t a saint.





AND. HE. HAS. TO. STOP. HIMSELF. FROM. TAKING. ADVANTAGE. OF. HER. Which is what it would be, there's not turning this situation into anything else. She's out of it, therefore she's not consenting.



ALL THE FUCKING NOPES HERE. That is not hero material, that is creepy-dude-about-to-turn-rapist material and I can’t.



Yes, he leaves her in the bed, with her bra and wet jeans still on, and goes back to the pub, but I’m not giving him any goddamn cookies for NOT giving in to his rape-y desire to touch her. WHILE SHE IS FUCKING ASLEEP LIKE THE DEAD.



Needless to say, after that – and the makeup comment – I never could grow to like and trust him as a good hero.



And here’s the thing, this kind of bullshit “Let me drool over the heroine while she’s out of it and think about how much I want to touch her and am about to lose my control because THAT BODY THO I WANTZ IT NOW” pops up FAR too often in romancelandia. And I’m disappointed in myself for not calling it out when I’ve come across it in the past; I should have. But I’m doing so now because that thought process is NOT okay, ever. When he can’t help the heroine out of her clothes without it being sexual, when he can’t stop thinking about her body while she’s not even awake and consenting and he worries his control will break because of her JUST LYING THERE ASLEEP? THAT IS NOT A HERO’S THINKING. STOP THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW.



So. My rage for him is high and it’s only chapter 2. Great, great, this is going just fine.




But I kept going. I don’t know what I was thinking – I blame it on the fact that I was drawn in by his accent, his tatts, and his piercings, and tried giving him another chance. Goddamn Irish “bad boys”, I can’t resist them.



Speaking of piercings, there’s my next problem with the story. He says (during inner dialogue) that he has a cock piercing:




"Back home, I never would have dreamed of speaking with someone who had a piercing in their face. It's so...wild."

She didn't sound like she thought that was a bad thing, and it took a lot of restraint not to tell her that he had several other parts pierced as well. If she thought his eyebrow was wild, then she might pass out if she ever got a look at the hoops in his nipples and the silver bar through his cock.



Me: “Ooh this is going to be good! Especially since Sarah is so taken by his piercings. When she finds the cock one . . . oh, my! I’m ready for this!”




So I waited.



And waited.



AND WAITED.



They have sex. A few times, during the course of the book, actually.



NEVER. IS. THE. COCK. PIERCING. BROUGHT. UP.



Not. Once.



It’s just POOF! Gone. There’s nothing in his cock. There’s no mention of it, by him or her. The cock piercing has left the building – and now I’m pissed AND frustrated.



You can’t throw me a pierced bone(r) and then take it away from me! Seriously: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?



Now, in all fairness, I have since learned from another reviewer that this mistake was found by a reviewer a few weeks ago and the editor and author are going to re-do the sex scenes to bring the piercing in, before, I assume, the final copy is uploaded to the vendor sites on May 15th.



But I don’t care. Because I want to know HOW in the ever-loving fuck does an author write about a cock piercing and then forget about it through the entire course of the book? But wait, HOW does an editor (and even beta readers, for that matter, which I’m sure she, like most authors, has) NOT PICK UP ON THIS BIG MISTAKE? LIKE, MANY MONTHS AGO? Why did it take a few reviewers, in the last weeks leading up to the book’s release, to ask “HEY, WHERE’S THE COCK PIERCING WE WERE PROMISED ON PAGE [whatever]?!”



That is a big, BIG clue that something’s missing in the writing AND editing process here. I know my mind is a one-track dirty thing, but for the love of god, how can ANYONE miss a fucking disappearing cock piercing?!



So it sounds like the piercing will be fixed by the time any of you buy this book – or at least that’s the assumption I’m making based on a conversation from another reviewer who contacted Entangled directly. But you bet your ass I’m still complaining about it here because a missing cock piercing is not the same as some minor grammar issues in an ARC. This should not have happened and I don’t know how it was never caught until this point, mere days before it hits shelves.



And while I’m pissed about the MIA piercing, I can’t say that suddenly reading the corrected copy with the piercing on page would improve my overall thoughts on this book. I mean, yay, cock piercing, but my disappointment in this book would still remain.



But the lack of piercing ties in to my next complaint about this entire book – it felt waaaaay too underdeveloped. It’s a quick book, 180 pages, and a category romance at that. I get that. But I never felt like I knew or understood the hero or heroine; they were both just the vaguest of character outlines. She came across as weak, even as she was trying to take control of her life, and I didn’t care one bit about her. He wasn’t fleshed out any better, either -- on top of the fact that I hated him for his earlier comments (see above rant).



Also, considering Sarah's fascination with his nipple piercing and how it feels, I was sure that the author would then have her get one -- not because of the hero, but because Sarah wanted so much to break free and find herself, be herself. Getting a nipple piercing that would give her pleasure, not whatever partner she's with, seems like a good step towards finding her own agency. But, alas, that never happened. Again, so much potential, so much missed opportunity here.



And the story was just as rushed and underdeveloped, too. One moment she’s taking classes, the next (literally – the next moment) she’s not. Okay, change happens fast, I’ll bite. Then she steps in as a bartender for him one night – with zero previous experience in the serving industry at all, let alone doing drinks – AND IS AWESOME AT IT (of course she is!), coming back other nights to work for him again. Um, I don't think so? On top of that, her jump from “I’m going to enjoy these 3 months here in Ireland and find myself” to “I’m staying here FOREVER” happens during a conversation with the ex-fiance (yes, of course he shows up to beg for her to return, to forgive his cold-feet mistakes, and how she’s wasting her time and potential in Ireland), with zero thought about the consequences or, you know, MOVING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY. Hi, honey, you can’t just decide to stay there on a whim; for one thing, there’s a lot of legal shit you’re going to need to do to become a citizen.



In short: everything was too rushed and fell flat because of it. I still think there was potential here, but none of it came through in the end.



For the last minute conflict, he tries to do something to help her with her art, but because he doesn’t, you know, talk to her about it first, it comes across as controlling. She gets mad, leaves him, he sulks before going after her. His grovel comes literally during the last 2 or so pages of the book – as in, he shows up, grovels, she forgives, they kiss and that’s it, The End. And while the idea of his grovel scene, again, had the potential to be cute and “Awww” worthy, I was left disappointed because A) rushed story, rushed conflict/grovel and B) I never did grow to care for either of these two anyway, so the grovel didn’t hold much power for me, one way or another. It just . . . was. That's how I felt about their entire story: it just was, and it could have been more.



I wanted to like this one. But I didn’t. I’m rounding up to 1 ½ stars because of the potential that I so desperately wanted to see here, but really, there’s nothing about this one that makes me want to recommend it to others. I have read Hawkeye before (historical erotica) and liked it a lot more, but this one is a pass for me.



Oh, and PSA to all authors: I’ll take your Irish hero with tatts and piercings (THAT ACTUALLY SHOW UP) who does not have creeper thoughts ANY DAY. Give them to me! But not this one. Nope nope nope.



1 1/2 STARS!

unfortunately this didn't deliver with how it was presented- the guy was ok..tatted and pierced Everywhere we were told... but when it came for the big reveal of his lower half..pierced and all... nothing was said...

Seriously hot Irishman. Good romance. I liked the plot and characters.

Sweet little read about finding yourself and finding love!

I definitely want my own Cian. He was freaking HOT. Darn and then on top of that a really sweet guy.

Sarah was sweet, but started off such a lost soul. She sure let people tell her what to do and just went with the flow. Her progression in the book to a strong know what I want woman was really played out well and enjoyable.

Cian's sister and her friend were great side characters and helped roll the story along. The Wild Irish played a big part too.

Sweet heartwarming sexy read with little drama and lots of heart. This book isn't rocket science or life changing, but it is a sweet escape!

Received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley. thanks!