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I'll read anything Victoria Dahl writes, including any scribbles on the sidewalk. If you like steamy romances with some integrity and character development, she's your woman.

START ME UP stars with Lori Love, the female mechanic in a small Colorado town, who wants far more from her life than grease marks and the rumors that she's a lesbian. When she finds out that the bar fight that had thrown her father into a vegetative state might not have been a random fight, she really wants some distractions. Especially since she had given up her dreams of globe-trotting and college to take care of her father for ten years.

Quinn Jennings is more than happy to provide that distraction. As an absent-minded architect, he's no good with relationships and doesn't have much of a crazy sex life. When he discovers that Lori is looking for some distraction (and her love of erotic romance books), he jumps in. Together, both of them explore their fantasties, and more.

Okay, one reason why I love Dahl is because she does heroes right. Quinn isn't your douchey alpha jerk. He's a sweet-mannered nerd who is still very, very hot. He's someone I could see myself actually being attracted to in real life, rather than being scared out of my mind and filing a stalker report. How can you resist a man who helps his lover explore her sexual fantasies and treats her like a real person? Impossible, I say!

And, of course, there's Lori Love. I think a lot of us can relate to the feeling that, by doing the right thing, we have put our own desires and wants on hold. I really enjoyed reading about how Lori dealt with her insecurities in a good, healthy way rather than obsessing over them. Moreover, Molly Jennings, is wonderful as a side character.

If you want a well-written, engaging and cute contemporary romance with a tiny bit of BDSM, this is perfect for you.


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Start Me Up Tumble Creek Victoria Dahl 9780373773909 Books Reviews

Start Me Up is the best of the series, in my opinion. Lori Love's tragic history makes her one of the most fully realized characters I've come across in contemporary romance in a while. She was a gifted college student, on the brink of accomplishing her dreams to travel well beyond her roots in Tumble Creek, when a debilitating accident forces her to come home to take care of her dad and his auto repair shop. Ten years later, her father has finally succumbed to his injuries, but Lori is stuck she can't sell the business because it barely turns a profit and she can't afford the cost of environmental cleanup necessary before she could sell the land.

Lori wants sex, but not a relationship (she doesn't want to put down roots in Tumble Creek since she's still hoping to escape, though the chances of escape fade with each passing year), so she takes up Molly's brother Quinn. Quinn's agreeable to the sex-without-dating deal because he sucks at relationships (his words, not mine) he's too absorbed in his work to pay women the kind of attention that relationships require. Despite the mutually agreed upon limits, the arrangement only makes Lori feel more trapped, because Quinn makes her feel all the more keenly what she has lost. He is brilliant and educated, while she had to drop out of school. He lives a glitzy, sophisticated life, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous in Aspen, while she works in shapeless coveralls and always has grease under her nails. He has been all over Europe and travels extensively for his work, while she hasn't left Tumble Creek since her Boston University education was interrupted by her father's injury.

There aren't a lot of romance stories involving women in traditionally male jobs (at least not blue collar jobs; female lawyers and doctors aren't too hard to find), and Start Me Up was refreshingly novel in flipping some of those gender stereotypes (for example, Lori rolls her eyes because Quinn doesn't know anything about his car and bought it mostly because he likes how it looks), while also exploring some of the tensions of being a woman in a man's job (as when Lori must take precautions to protect herself when she goes out alone to answer after-hours calls for tow service). The book also explores class tensions without the stereotypes and elitist value judgments so often inherent in books dealing with class divisions Lori is blue collar, but she isn't trashy or stupid or crude; Quinn is comfortably wealthy, but not stuck up. At home in blue jeans drinking beer from the bottle, Quinn is just as comfortable in Lori's dingy and dated apartment over the garage as he is in his more posh pad in Aspen (especially since all either of them really care about, in either location, is the bed.)
Here's a great lead character, Lori Love, who reaches in to herself for courage to go life alone even when events take a grim turn. She has that elusive quality so compelling to me grit. Buried in debt from her dead father's medical expenses, Lori plugs away at her family's car repair garage as a mechanic and tow truck driver. Even when she goes out with her best friend, she sometimes still has a speck of black grease under her fingernail. Her outfits most days are a set of grey cotton coveralls and steel-toed boots. After two generations of work with motor oils, her junkyard may be a Superfund site, and she has no money to clean it up, so she cannot sell the business. She's locked in and she feels it.
As a pasttime, Lori reads romance novels, usually erotica. Her best friend, Mollie, writes those books and so they have that in common. At 29, Lori is looking ahead to summer and thinks she'd like to spend it with someone who will play out some of the situations she reads about, with her. But it's a small town and many assume, because she is unattached and a mechanic, that she is a lesbian. To her credit, Lori just laughs. Loved this story, asked in and around Aspen, Colorado. An Australian blogger put it on a top ten romance novels list and she's right -- it's remarkably good.
I'll read anything Victoria Dahl writes, including any scribbles on the sidewalk. If you like steamy romances with some integrity and character development, she's your woman.

START ME UP stars with Lori Love, the female mechanic in a small Colorado town, who wants far more from her life than grease marks and the rumors that she's a lesbian. When she finds out that the bar fight that had thrown her father into a vegetative state might not have been a random fight, she really wants some distractions. Especially since she had given up her dreams of globe-trotting and college to take care of her father for ten years.

Quinn Jennings is more than happy to provide that distraction. As an absent-minded architect, he's no good with relationships and doesn't have much of a crazy sex life. When he discovers that Lori is looking for some distraction (and her love of erotic romance books), he jumps in. Together, both of them explore their fantasties, and more.

Okay, one reason why I love Dahl is because she does heroes right. Quinn isn't your douchey alpha jerk. He's a sweet-mannered nerd who is still very, very hot. He's someone I could see myself actually being attracted to in real life, rather than being scared out of my mind and filing a stalker report. How can you resist a man who helps his lover explore her sexual fantasies and treats her like a real person? Impossible, I say!

And, of course, there's Lori Love. I think a lot of us can relate to the feeling that, by doing the right thing, we have put our own desires and wants on hold. I really enjoyed reading about how Lori dealt with her insecurities in a good, healthy way rather than obsessing over them. Moreover, Molly Jennings, is wonderful as a side character.

If you want a well-written, engaging and cute contemporary romance with a tiny bit of BDSM, this is perfect for you.