ARC Review: Give Me Love by Corinne Michaels

This was classified as a fake marriage romance, but I have to say I totally didn’t see Blakely and Emmett that way.  They may have gotten married for all the wrong reasons, but they really did love each other and somehow couldn’t find a way to get those 3 little magic words to come out of their mouths.  But, if they had said those, we wouldn’t have gotten Give Me Love.

This book picks up where Help Me Remember left off with Blakely coming into town and everyone realizing Emmett was married.  Blakely came to town trying to solve a missing person case that was tied to bad guy Bill who had gone after Brielle.  Unbeknownst to Rose Canyon, they have a big issue on their hands.  Emmett and Blakely try to navigate the pitfalls of their fake/not really fake relationship while dealing with the continued fallout from what went down with Isaac and Brie.

I like Emmett and Blakely.  Their banter was fantastic and it was very obvious that these two needed to deal with their very large feelings for one another rather than continue to shove them in the proverbial closet.  Once they admitted what they had been scared to say, everything fell very quickly into place for them, as a couple at least.  But Ms. Michaels couldn’t let them off the hook that easily so the bad guys came knocking which also revealed the struggle these two ex-military people were going to have.  Emmett needed to remember that Blakely was a badass and didn’t need to be saved, she just needed to be trusted like any other member of a well-oiled machine.

The story was enjoyable, even if I was able to figure out where the arc of the story was going pretty quickly (and didn’t tug on the heartstring quite the way I thought it might).  The epilogue has me waiting with bated breath for what exactly happened in Vegas at Issac’s bachelor party.