Embrace the Suck by Giulia Lagomarsino

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought I could get away and relax.

But that was scrapped the first day when Dash and FNG followed me on vacation.

It was supposed to be a trip to reset my brain.

To get away from all the women flooding work, desperate to be involved and blow stuff up, throw knives, and eat shawarma with the resident psychopath.



But they weren’t the worst part of the trip.



No, that would be the woman that shouldn’t have ever stepped foot in a desert.

Whining and complaining were not supposed to happen on this trip.

But it did.

I should not have had to fight off a rabbit in a yurt.

But I did.

And that bighorn sheep…



But that was only the beginning of the worst vacation known to man.

Then there were bullets, enemies coming from all directions, and the sexiest, most annoying woman directly in the center of it.

And I had to protect her.



They say vacation is fun.

They’ve never been on one with her.

Embrace the Suck

Thumper and Bree!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔😅😂🤣🥰

The Hero: Tate “Thumper” Parsons – he works for Owens Protective Services, and he got his nickname Thumper because he lost his foot in the military overseas. Since then, he has been testing the prototype of a robotic foot for his friend Tank who is an engineer. His friend sends him upgrades whenever they are trialing a new design. His current robotic foot can do everything his real foot can do and now he is taking time off to try out the foot while hiking.

The heroine: Bree – she worked 10–12-hour days, seven days a week in the financial industry in an attempt to fulfill her dream of becoming a partner in the firm and getting her name on the door. Just when she was about to achieve what she had been working so hard for, her boss forced her to use up some of the vacation time she had been banking since she never took a day off. She was required to go on sabbatical for three months and would be required to take another three months the following year. Though when she returned from her time away, she would be moving up to the top floor, to an office with her name on the door.

The Story: While hiking in Utah, Thumper is surprised when his coworkers Dash and New Guy show up. Thumper hides and fakes them out, so they run in the opposite direction, and he gets in his truck and hightails it out of there. When he finds another place in the park that he wants to see, he sets off hiking, which is where he meets Bree. When he sees how beautiful she is, he knows he is in trouble.

I have to say that Bree wasn’t a very likable heroine at first. She apparently worked so much that she let everything and everyone in her life fall to the wayside. Her sister tried to be nice to her but kept telling her how she had always known Bree would end up like this, never seeing her family and even when she did, she was called away because of work. I wouldn’t say her sister was mean, but she definitely told it like it was without any niceties. Bree found herself very much alone and out of her depth on a hiking trip, but she knew if she went to the beach on vacation that she would be bored stiff, because she was the kind of person who always kept busy.

Like all the books in this series, things start getting really good when people start shooting at our two main characters (plus Dash and FNG). When things got totally out of control and Bree ended up even more out of her element than before, Thumper was actually kind of mean to her. Well maybe not mean, but he had no compassion for her being in a situation like that and only wanted to get rid of her, and he let it show.

I love that these books have a little bit of everything, there is humor, camaraderie, terrific characters, romance, suspense, mystery, action and not too much steam, but at least one or two steamy scenes with characters that have plenty of chemistry.

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