Simply Irresistible (Chinooks Hockey Team, #1) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

May 28, 2012 Darcy rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, 2012

I thought this one was cute. Georgeanne was charming from the start. I hated what she over heard as a kid and it sure colored her life. I have a feeling it was a big part of why she was marrying Virgil. I do think the smartest thing she could have done was run out on him. I loved how that happened and how John reacted to her.

I will admit that I didn't care for John for much of the book. He was an ass to start with and I hated how he took advantage of Georgeanne, then dumped her at the airport. W ...more

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May 19, 2012 LuvBug rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary, kin-p, kindle, 3-half-stars-liked-it-good-read, suitor-hero-triangle, hard-to-get-hero, secondary-romance, sports, famous-hero, kids-involved

3.5 stars.This book was an above average read, eventhough it started out really good but leveled out after a while. The chemistry between the leads didn't really leap off the pages for me in this one. I thought the heroine was really selfish with trying to keep the hero's daughter from him. She did not have a good excuse for doing that to her child and the father. I also could have done without the little secondary romance with the heroine's friend Mae. I didn't like her, and could not root for ...more

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May 29, 2010 Wendy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance, part-of-a-series, sports-bad-boy

This is a fun book that will have you laughing and crying. Rachel Gibson is a talented writer with a flair for writing realistic and deep characters that you want to meet in real life.

John Kowalski plays hockey for the Seattle Chinooks. He is big and more than a little full of himself. When he goes to the wedding of the owner of the team he is curious to meet the woman that will be the next Mrs. Duffey. But on second thought he decides to skip out on the wedding and hit the road. But just a min This is a fun book that will have you laughing and crying. Rachel Gibson is a talented writer with a flair for writing realistic and deep characters that you want to meet in real life.

John Kowalski plays hockey for the Seattle Chinooks. He is big and more than a little full of himself. When he goes to the wedding of the owner of the team he is curious to meet the woman that will be the next Mrs. Duffey. But on second thought he decides to skip out on the wedding and hit the road. But just a minute, A striking young woman in a really tight strapless mini dress comes out of the house intending to leave and asks for a ride. What the hell. He'll do his good Samaritan duty for the day and drop her off somewhere. But upon leaving the estate he figures out that she was to have been the bride and is skipping out on the wedding. Crap! This could cost him his contract with the team.

Georgeanne Howard is a Texas girl with a lot to prove. She is searching for her place in the world and mistakenly thinks that if she marries Virgil Duffey she will find someone that will take care of her and she will mean something. But she can't make herself go through with it. So she grabs her makeup case and runs out of the mansion only to find a handsome man just about to leave. She begs a ride from him and then when he asks if she is a friend of the Bride she drops her little bomb, that she was the intended Bride. She just needs some time to get herself together and make some decisions about her life. If John will let her stay for a few days then she will be on her way. But that isn't what ends up happening. She and John end up in bed together and have a great night, but the next morning John takes her to the airport and dumps her there with a ticket back to Texas. Well, that didn't work out the way she had planned.

Georgeanne decides not to go back to Texas. She has nothing there for her. So she finds a position at a Catering Business and starts her new life right there in Seattle.

One night while attending a charity banquet John spots Georgeanne and approaches her. She panics and hardly speaks to him before she leaves him standing there confused. But She dropped her checkbook and he is curious about her and why she is back in Seattle. So he takes the checkbook to her the next day at her home. But Georgeanne isn't the one that answers the door, a little girl about six years old does. She says that her Mommy is in the shower and will be done in a while. She invites him in and then proceeds to charm his socks off. But while he is getting to know the child he realizes that she looks just like he did as a boy. Could she be his? Had it really been Seven years since their night together?

John is understandably upset to find out that he has a daughter that he didn't know about. But while he is getting to know his daughter he finds that he is still very attracted to her mother. Can they work through all of the hurt and betrayal? Can they find a solution to their wild attraction to each other? Pick up this book and find out what happens.

I give this one 4 out of 5 stars. ...more

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