After read­ing and post­ing my less than favor­able review of Bone Deep by Bon­nie Dee, I decided to read another book by her as I did like her voice/style and I am happy to say that I did enjoy Oppo­sites Attract from Venus Press much, much better.

Kelly is a pretty reserved per­son. She adheres to rou­tine and rarely does any­thing spon­ta­neous. She plays her cello and lives a pretty nor­mal life of rou­tine. Enter Ren, our friendly hero, who plays gui­tar for his band Loose Ends and has the eye stud and a few tat­toos of rebel­lious youth to sup­port the stereo­type. He lives next door to Kelly. I liked Ren a lot. Very talk­a­tive fel­low, man­ages to bull­doze him­self into Kelly’s apart­ment and fires off all kinds of ques­tions. The get­ting– to– know-you-type questions. Then things get seri­ous when they start to play a game of Truth/Dare lead­ing to a night of white-hot pas­sion. After their one night stand, Ren knows that he wants to get to know Kelly a lit­tle bet­ter (like he doesn’t already?) and Kelly is unsure if she wants Ren in her life (should of thought of that before you let him in the bed, eh?). Any­way, the romance is hin­dered with the morn­ing after feel­ings of anx­i­ety, uncer­tainty and mis­un­der­stand­ings. This is a pretty quick story but it’s not with­out it’s problems.

Again, ran into some edit­ing issues for exam­ple the color of the hero’s hair. One moment it was described as brown and next, spiky black? It may seem petty to some but edit­ing errors does throw read­ers such as myself out of the story which is not a good thing. Another is the usual con­trivances that plague romance nov­els — Kelly’s feel­ings were quite con­tra­dic­tory. Such is love, right? Also, this author’s favorite word phrase seems to be “crotch clutch­ing” and I will never get use to the p-word. The other p-word. That’s just my per­sonal issues. Le sigh.

How­ever, there were many  good points like great char­ac­ter devel­op­ment espe­cially for Ren, the hero. I really liked him which was the biggest draw for me to this story.  Dia­logue was great. Seems the author has a good ear for dia­logue and the plot while not orig­i­nal was nice. Despite this being a quickie romance, it was some­what believ­able that they would be happy together if Kelly doesn’t decide her fate on the horo­scope. Also, I was able to believe this despite how their rela­tion­ship ini­tially started with a one-night stand.

Another neg­a­tive is the pric­ing of this novella at $4.98. Ouch. But for me, I would love to see this author pro­moted more and read more, so I bit the bul­let. I plan to buy her back list and read the rest of her books. I really like her voice. Did  I say that already? And plus, since I’m shal­low like that, I did buy it since it fea­tures a hero­ine who was an Aquar­ius like moi.

Any­way, Oppo­sites Attract was unput­down­able. My grade, B-.

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