Casee‘s review of Impulsive by HelenKay Dimon.
Katie Long was supposed to be undercover. She was just supposed to watch Deputy Prosecutor Eric Kimura at his ex’s wedding and gather intel on his campaign for prosecutor. But he’s a lot hotter in person, and the kind of intel they accidentally shared in the hotel bathroom might lose both of them their jobs. Especially since it seems to be a recurring incident. Is it possible for a one-night stand to last ten days?
Kimura isn’t usually the impulsive type. He’s driven, he’s ambitious, and he knows what he wants—a respectable future in Hawaii politics. Which means wild half-public sex with a beautiful stranger in a short little caterer’s skirt is just tabloid fodder waiting to happen. Conveniently, just as his campaign is coming under attack. Sabotage, media gossip, and an insatiable desire for a woman he just met? If he’s not careful, Counselor Kimura might lose all control…
This book starts out pretty hot. Katie and Eric are going at it hot and heavy. I just had to ignore that it was in a bathroom. Or pretend that it was a bathroom made out of solid gold, one that had no germs or bacteria in it. Eric is at his ex’s wedding to prove to himself and his future constituents that he is over Deanna Armstrong. Katie is at the wedding to help her sister–the caterer–and to make a few extra bucks on the side by spying on Eric. So when she does him in the bathroom (there is simply no other way to word it) she knows exactly who he is.
When Eric searches Katie out a few days later, he has convinced himself it is only so he can apologize for running out on her so quickly after their tryst. Katie is appalled to find him at the catering shop. The last person she wants to see is Eric Kimura. Not only does she feel like a whore for sleeping with him, but she actually liked him; felt a connection to him. Connections are things that Katie no longer does. After her last disaster of a relationship, Katie steers clear of connections of any sort.
Before long, Eric has sought Katie out again. Then again. To her credit, Katie went to the man she was “spying” for and told him to go stick it. Yet when she was told that someone else could do the job, she decided that she would keep the job because it was the lesser of two evils. All she would do is report back negative information. It was all very wishy-washy and immature. Katie was immature. I didn’t really care for her at all.
Now Eric, he was a man. A man that deserved a woman that was more grown up than Katie. I suppose that Katie did grow up while knowing Eric. She was forced to lose him which in turn made her grow up, but it was a slow process. Eric had to do a little growing himself, but I’m still not sure that Katie was right for him. No doubt she loved him, but I had doubts that she would satisfy him for the long term. I still love Dimon’s writing style and the sex is just hot. I give Impulsive a 3.75 out of 5.
This book is available from Brava. You can buy it here.
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