REVIEW: Rough and Tumble by Crystal Green

In Rough and Tumble (Rough and Tumble #1) by Crystal Green, Molly and her friends are in Vegas looking to let lose for a few days after Molly has trouble with her indecent boss at work. Molly is used to being the good girl and taking care of others. She likes things orderly. So when she and her friends start out their adventure in a ‘biker bar’ just outside of Vegas, she is unprepared for her reaction to the bad boy “Cash” she meets there. Molly tells herself they are not at all suitable for each other, but when her friend ‘loses’ Molly in a poker game, Molly suddenly finds herself having to spend some time Cash.

Cash wants to show Molly the off beaten path of Vegas. He also wants to spend a lot more time with the woman who inexplicably stirs his blood. With interesting and sometimes humorous interactions and adventures, Cash and Molly start their own adventure…even if it is heavily influenced by her friends and their actions. They are hot together, but so different. Will Molly be able to easily go back to her life before Cash and Vegas? What will happen after Vegas?

Cash and Molly are an unexpected mix. I found it really hard to get a sense of who he really was, and difficult to know. He is rough on the outside but I always got the feeling there was more to him than he let show. Cash has his past demons he’s done his best to outrun, but Molly can see glimpses of them lurking in his eyes. Molly is a responsible adult, but she seems to let the actions of others rule a lot of her life. I didn’t feel a good connection with either main character, and I did find the plot to be a little too unbelievable. I did like how for the short span of time in Vegas, Molly’s character changed and grew. There is a lot of drama with Molly’s friends that clogs up the plot line, sometimes making the flow a bit choppy.

I did love the setting of Rough and Tumble, from the biker bar to the strip in Vegas, to the out of the way places Cash took Molly. Crystal describes it all well, and I could easily have been there.

Cash and Molly do have great chemistry, even when they try to ignore it, and their adventure is fun. I’d recommend Rough and Tumble to romance readers looking for a light read.

Book Info:

Published July 15th 2014 by InterMix | (Rough and Tumble #1)

On the dusty outskirts of Vegas, there’s a down and dirty saloon where all sorts of lethally charming—and genuinely dangerous—men carouse to seduce the women who happen to venture inside on their way to and from Sin City.

After Molly Preston flees a dead-end job with a lecherous boss, she finds herself in even hotter water after one of her best friends makes the wrong bet in a poker game with a sexy bad boy drifter in a backroom of the Rough & Tumble.

The man’s name is Cash. And he offers Molly an indecent proposal—one hot night with him—that could erase her friend’s debt to him in one fell swoop. She wants to say yes, even if this electrifying man seems just as unsafe as he is tempting.

One night becomes two…then more…and soon Molly is road tripping with Cash in the desert and exploring boundaries she never knew existed. But will indulging in this kind of pleasure leave her “normal” life in the dust?