Reckless

Great book!!! This is Ford and Crystal book! Ford is a hot shot CEO of his family's watch company, the company he feels is stuck back in time but he and his buddies have a new smart watch that he just knows will be a big money maker but needs certain family members to sign off on and they don't want to! His sister's getting married and he needs to get those signatures and what better place to do it then at the wedding! Crystal is a yoga\internet guru for her family's empire her parents are really out there! They are hippie free will people lol like walk around naked talk about sex and also have a tantric book!! Lol she's guilted into doing video's for her parents website. Her cousin that she lived with growing up is getting married to Ford's sister, she s getting on a flight and meets Ford on the plane they get snowed in at a stopover in Chicago! They rent a car wrists where the fun begins !! This book was really funny, has a little heartbreak, definitely some steamy moments! All around it was a fun adventurous read!! Definitely don't miss out on this book! It's well worth the read! Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!

WARNING: do not read this book at night when your significant other is trying to fall asleep. Attempting to snort-laugh silently is painful, and also shakes the bed. 😁

Reckless is a delightful, fun story. Although it started off slowly, things picked up considerably once our hero and heroine, Bradford T. Huntington and Crystal RainWater Ananda, began their journey/adventure from Colorado to his sister’s/her cousin’s wedding in upstate New York. And while their constant bickering could have been annoying (a la two siblings stuck in a backseat on a cross country road trip), instead it was hilarious. Frequently the witty, biting barbs they exchanged had me laughing out loud.

Ford and Crystal couldn’t be more opposite. He’s highly educated, extremely driven, and under extreme pressure to make his failing company succeed businessman. She is street smart/self-taught, laid back, and a hippie-dippy yoga instructor. Things shouldn’t work between them, but it’s almost like they enjoyed the constant verbal sparring.

Crystal came out of a store with a big bag of groceries and a wide grin. She climbed into the car and unpacked a bunch of rabbit food - a bag of carrots, an apple, water, and some nuts.
“Want some nuts?” she asked.
“How about some real food, like bacon?”

So many of the scenes in this book could have crossed over into slapstick, “this is ridiculous” territory, especially when Crystal’s commune living, yoga guru, hippy family shows up at Ford’s rich, stuffy, snobby East Coast family home. But it never did. Instead, I just kept laughing and laughing. The humor in this book is effortless and abundant. Maybe I’ve just been reading things that were too deep lately, but this book was refreshing.

But somewhere around the 65 percent point, the book took a sharp left turn detour from funny and lighthearted into serious and deep as Crystal and Ford grappled with their wounds from childhood. Turns out, maybe deep down they aren’t so opposite after all. Both feel the heavy weight of family expectations, and neither feel they have a choice or the chutzpah to change things.

I love when a book charms me so completely with its humor, but then also makes me feel so much more with the heartfelt things the characters are dealing with. On the surface, this story is about an uptight guy learning to loosen up as he falls for the quirky, free-spirited girl. But it’s so much more than that! This was the perfect summer read, and I look forward to reading more by Leigh LaValle.

* thank you to NetGalley and Heart Bay Publishing for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review

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This was my first read from this author and she has easily been added to my "must read" list of authors! This was everything I love in a contemporary romance with lots of feels, intensity, heart-warming moments and hot, sexy times as well! I loved the slow development of the relationship between Ford and Crystal and the easy, sometimes really hot, banter between these two characters. The supporting characters were just as well thought out and developed and added to the storyline without taking away from the main characters and without being fill-in and fluff--they added to the overall experience. Excellent, enjoyable read! I loved it so much that I purchased the first book in this series immediately and will purchase the rest of the series as well. I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC for NetGalley.

This was a funny, sexy story about hippie Crystal and Ford, the CEO. These two are polar opposites, but that doesn't stop the sparks from flying. Some moments were laugh-out-loud, some were smack-someone's-head-you're-an-idiot, and some were steamy. Add in a family wedding, a wealthy family that's all about appearance, a hippie family, a business in crisis and you have chaos and mayhem. Let the fun begin!

I loved Crystal and Ford together.

This was my first book by this author, but I'll keep my eyes out for future books.