Ladies and Gentlemen...the Wallbanger is back. I was so pleased to receive my ARC for Rusty Nailed and even more pleased after I read how Simon Parker continues to rock Caroline's world...and bed. As much as I loathed having to wait for more of Simon and Caroline's wickedly exciting romance to fill my fantasies, I must admit that Rusty Nailed is definitely worth the wait and should be added to your summer reading list.
When I first introduced Wallbanger to my romance novel enthusiast friends I got the same reactions from all of them, they couldn't stop laughing at the antics of these people and Clive the cat. I think that is a testament to Alice Clayton's style, she celebrates the embarrassing and graceless moments that most people feel when in a new relationship. She glorifies the senseless but familiar interactions that we have with our friends. In Wallbanger, we laughed when Caroline and her friends jumped up and down on the bed and had a shouting match with Simon and his friends through the thin walls separating their apartments. In Rusty Nailed, we get to laugh at the disparate nuances of conversations between female friends and male friends: a woman can touch her belly and smile then both women start squealing about due dates, gender and names; a man says "dude" and his buddy responds with "dude" and it's as though an entire discourse has been exchanged.
What I love most about Rusty Nailed (besides the hot sex scenes) is that Caroline discovers more about Simon, how his past has shaped him and how he envisions their future. Both of their lives are shaken by change and while Caroline seems to want to run in the opposite direction, Simon surprises her by embracing and creating changes of his own. The renovations Simon is making to their home parallel the changes going in their relationship, it's not just hot sex and baked good anymore (although I must admit that I still muse over the detailed description of exactly how a man removes a woman's panties with just his teeth), Simon and Caroline are growing up in this book. Don’t think this means they are completely mature adults, that would bore me to tears. No, in this story they are moving forward and looking at what they want their relationship to be.
One of the reasons Wallbanger is so appealing is how Alice Clayton writes her story as though the heroine is having a conversation with the reader. We are listening as Caroline narrates her story and that means we get her immediate reaction to the crazy that is her life, like watching her friend make out with a giraffe (you have to read it to understand it). Rusty Nailed continues in this same style and we are back to chatting up our favorite girlfriend, Caroline. We are listening to her boyfriend woes, work troubles, and friend drama coupled with the locker room talk about her amazing sex life, specifically how Simon truly knows how to use the “P-word”. I will let that marinate on your tongue and finish with this: Read Rusty Nailed.
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