REVIEW: All I Want by Jill Shalvis

Posted September 22nd, 2015 by Sara @HarlequinJunkie in Blog, Contemporary Romance, HJ Top Pick!, Review / 18 comments

All I Want by Jill Shalvis: Now that Zoe’s siblings have paired off and moved out, Zoe is finally able to live for herself. She’s spent most of her childhood, teenage, and adult years watching over her brother and sister. Now it’s her turn to try to find love, but she’s been burned in the past and her walls are high.

Parker is a special agent who has been forced to take a vacation, except he can’t quite leave his latest case alone. As one of Wyatt’s friends, he decides to stay in Sunshine to further the case and plans to stay at Zoe’s house for his vacation.

Zoe decides it’s time to start dating and puts out the word she’s open to being set up on dates. Zoe expects a one such date to show up and she puts Darcy’s friendly advice to good use when Parker shows up.

“Nice to meet you, too,” he said. “Who’s the dentist?”
Zoe’s smile congealed and her heart stopped, just completely stopped. “Uh…you,” she said. “You’re the dentist.”
Still smiling, he shook his head. “Not me.”

They have a very interesting first meeting to say the least. It’s clear that Parker is a bit of a mystery since he’s very tight-lipped about what he does and why he hires Zoe to fly him around Idaho. It’s also clear that there is a palpable attraction between them. But Zoe doesn’t date men who keep secrets and Parker doesn’t do entanglements.

Since they essentially live together, that changes the playing field. They can’t escape each other or their chemistry. The banter between Zoe and Parker is highly entertaining and serves to draw them together.

“I’m cold,” she lied. “I can’t get warm.”
“It’s summer. It’s a warm night.”
“Parker?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you really want to argue with a woman who’s trying to seduce you?”

All I Want absolutely hits the mark. Jill Shalvis provides her trademark humor in a book that I couldn’t wait to read and did not disappoint. Ms. Shalvis creates an entertaining and steamy romance that had me laughing out loud and feeling the heat. All I Want can be read as a standalone, but I highly recommend reading all of the books in the Animal Magnetism series. Fans of Susan Mallery, Kristan Higgins, and Rachel Gibson would love All I Want!

Book Info:

Publication: October 6th 2015 | Berkley | Animal Magnetism #7

From the “awesomely, incredibly talented”* New York Times bestselling author of Still the One, comes a sexy new Animal Magnetism novel set in Sunshine, Idaho, where the sky is the limit when it comes to love.

Pilot-for-hire Zoe Stone is happy to call Sunshine, Idaho, her home base. But her quiet life is thrown for a loop when her brother’s friend Parker comes to stay with her for a week. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife special agent is a handsome flirt with a gift for getting under her skin. And the situation only escalates when Parker hires her to fly him around the area while he collects evidence on a suspected smuggler.

Now she has to live and work with the guy. But when they’re in the air, she sees another side of him. He’s driven, focused, and sharp. And while he enjoys giving commentary on her blind dates, she quickly realizes with a shock that it’s Parker who gets her engines going…