Bad Ass by Jasinda Wilder

Badd Ass by Jasinda Wilder
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Book 2 of the Badd Brothers series
Read: 14 Mar 2019

Synopsis (written by me): This is the story of the second Badd brother, Zane. He was a Navy SEAL before going back home to Ketchikan, Alaska to help with the family bar. He meets Mara, a former combat medic, who is in town on vacation. Both of them have been doing one-night stands for so long that they don't even know how to date, so they decide to practice on each other while she is in town and then go their separate ways. Yeah, right.

I enjoyed this installment of the Badd Brothers series more than the first book. The relationship still smacked of insta-love but that was mitigated somewhat by the fact that Zane and Mara consciously spent time trying to get to know each other instead of spending all their time having sex. Both of them had issues that they needed to talk through, and that added substance to the story. Still, the sex scenes are prominent and so frequent that I started to skip over them after the first or second one. Wilder does a decent job writing sex scenes; I just find it difficult to stay interested if there are more than two sex scenes in a book. The characters can banter about sex all they want, but I don't need to read about every lovemaking session in detail.

Although this story was a bit deeper than the first one, there is still a sameness to it that does not compel me to read every book in the series as I usually would. Like they said in Lake Woebegon, all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children (in this case, the youngest Badd brothers) are above average. Looking ahead to the other books in the series, it seems like each one will be about how the hero and heroine are commitment phobic. I will probably skip ahead to book #8 because Xavier, the youngest Badd brother, has a different disposition than the other siblings and I'm hoping his romance will not be a carbon copy of the others.

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