Review: Miss Match by Laurelin McGee

Welcome to the sexy, crazy, wildly unpredictable world of modern matchmaking, where fixing up strangers is part of the job--but falling in love is an occupational hazard…

HE'S THE PERFECT CATCH.

Blake Donovan is tall, handsome, rich, and successful--so why would a guy like him need a matchmaker? Andrea Dawson has no idea, but a job is a job. After being blackballed from a career in marketing, Andrea agreed to use her unique profiling skills to play matchmaker out of pure desperation. But when she meets her highly eligible--and particular--first client face to face, she wonders what she's gotten herself into…

IS SHE HIS PERFECT MATCH?

Blake knows exactly the kind of woman he's looking for--and it's the total opposite of Andrea. Though smart and undeniably sexy, she is simply too headstrong for a man who's used to being in charge. Still, Blake's blood pressure rises whenever she's near him. How can he explain the smoldering attraction that sizzles between them? And how can Andrea deny she's feeling it, too? Maybe, just maybe, they've finally met their match…

My Review

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. 

The blurb of this book really caught my attention. Blake is looking for a wife. He places an ad asking for help finding that special lady and despite not wanting the job, Andrea applies for it. She goes on the interview and finds Blake to be kind of an ass. He definitely does not make a good first impression, but Andrea ends up taking the job anyway. 

Andrea has a special skill of being able to read people and it worked for her in her last job, until it didn't. It is the perfect kind of skill she needs to help find Blake the wife that he wants. Although the more time he spends with Andrea and the more dates he goes on, the more he realizes that maybe he was wrong about what he wants.  

Throughout the whole trying to find Blake a wife process, Andrea slowly realizes that Blake is not as bad as she thought he was. The two come up with the idea that they should start sleeping together so that Blake won't be tempted to sleep with his dates. 

She answered quick and sure. “Touch me, Blake Donovan.” Her voice was thick with desire. He stared at her, unblinking. “I said, touch me!” 

Never in his life had Blake been given orders during sex.

It was the most goddamn sexy thing he’d ever heard.

He snapped back into position, pulled like a magnet by her command. One of his hands grabbed a fistful of curls, and they were just as soft as he’d imagined. Even better was the breathy gasps she made as he tugged on them. He wanted to explore her body, cup and squeeze her breasts until her nipples hardened to twin peaks. Strip her of all her clothing and stare at her flushed skin.

But this was frantic and unplanned. And in the office. Not a time for savoring, and with Andrea now working on the zipper of his pants and the echo of her touch me playing in his ears, he felt obligated to return his fingers to the apex of her thighs.

Sliding beneath the crotch of her panties, he trailed his finger along the top of her cleft, so near to where he knew she wanted him yet so far away. Her hand stilled at the waistband of his briefs as he taunted her. “Is this where?” His tone was low and gravelly as his thumb settled in her nest to find her clit. “Is this where you want me to touch you?”

She didn’t make him ask again. “Yes.” Andrea wriggled under his touch. “Yes, please, yes.”

He swirled his thumb against the swollen bud, watching her reaction as he exerted differing pressures. When her breathing grew heavier and her grip on his hair tightened, he felt sure that he’d discovered exactly what it was that she liked. And her expression—lids half closed, her face tightened into a look of impending pleasure—it was almost enough to get him off without anything else. He had to look away.

Returning his attention to his actions, he splayed his fingers like he was holding a bowling ball, one playing at her bud while he slid two digits down to test her hole. Ah, she was wet. So wet. And tight. But he was sure she was wet enough to take care of that. He could slip in now, certain she was ready to accommodate him. Yet he could sense she was close and even though he knew this wasn’t an occasion to indulge, he wanted her to come apart all over him. For him.

Even in the throes of passion he recognized that this was absurd overthinking for a quick office shag. Damn, this woman…

She was amazing.

In awe, he watched as she reached the edge and spilled over, her muscles tensing and quivering with her climax, her voice crying out with the sound of his name.

Crying out! What if she was heard? In a split second he wondered if his office walls were soundproof or if his secretary had left for her lunch break yet. Then simply decided the matter could be handled another way.

Gripping her behind the neck, he pulled Andrea toward him and sealed his mouth over hers, swallowing her sounds. He should have been doing this the whole time. Her kisses were incredible. She tasted like coffee and the caramels she didn’t know he knew she hid in her desk for when she skipped lunch and needed a sugar fix. It was delicious.

He continued to kiss her through her orgasm, until she’d relaxed in his embrace. For one split second, he feared that now that she’d gotten her release, she’d return to her senses and push him off her. Wouldn’t that be a kicker?

Those fears were quickly relieved when her hand settled on his erection and squeezed. “Your turn, Tiger.”

Talk about an idea backfiring. The more Andrea and Blake sleep together, the more they find they actually like each other and get to a point where they enjoy each other's company. And Blake starts to think that he has been going about this all wrong. 

This was a great read. It was funny at times, but it also brought the heat (i.e. the excerpt above). I loved Andrea from the start of the book, but it took me a while to warm up to Blake. He was so focused on finding the perfect wife, he didn't really know what he actually wanted. Once he started to figure it out, he became a more likeable person. Andrea and Blake complemented each other and I was rooting for them to make it work. 

Amazon buy link:  http://amzn.com/B00R18GCP6