Saly's Reviews > Instant Attraction

Jill Shalvis is fast becoming an auto-read for me, her contemporaries have so real and likable characters.
Cameron Wilder was a world-famous athlete before an accident when he lost his concentration, took it all away from him a year ago. He's been lost since flitting from place to place trying to find a way to live without something that defined him. Cameron was a result of his mother's infidelity so his father was cruel to him, it was only at the age of 8 when he went to live with his young aunt Annie life became better, but the damage had been done. He believes the only thing he was good at is snow-boarding which he can't do if he is not the best. He returns to Wilder Adventures run by his two brothers Stone and TJ and his aunt and finds Katie in his bed.

Katie lived in LA and didn't live life to the fullest when a near-death experience changed it all, so she quit her accounting job to the chagrin of her parents and drove and when she saw a sign for temp office help joined Wilder Adventures.
The story also has Stone the middle, peace-maker brother and Annie and her husband Nick who despite loving each other are unable to communicate.

The book is extremely well-done. The dialogues are snappy, the characters all lovable, they are more than what they seem at the surface. There is instant attraction between Katie and Cam but they do not immediately act on it, there is lot of tension and kisses, all the time Cam decides not to do something since he is not in the right place but Katie says she wants an adventure and she is not staying.
Cam helps Katie in her adventures, he helps her get over her panic in driving and even takes her snow-boarding which helps him as well in getting back to it for the first time since the accident.

Katie and the feeling she arouses in him terrify Cam since they are so new and when he acts like he's about to run Katie shrieks at him. I loved the drunken Katie scene with the other two women. Poor Cam, when she gives him a dose on the phone and when she throws him out, with all his family right outside to watch the show.

I liked it when Cam tells Katie that he has opened up to her and not she. She has survivors guilt about the accident in which she was the only survivor hence the nightmares and the she needed to confront it.

The most hilarious part their family walks on them whenever things are about to get hot and heavy or they are about to have a conversation.

The Wilders are amazing. I can't wait to dive into the next book.