As always author Erin Nicholas manages to mix hot and sexy with sweet and innocent making Nice and Easy a delight to read and an excellent addition to this series. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Blurb:
A hot firefighter who just wants to take care of her and her little boy? Sign her up.
Moving in with him and his little girl who already has a huge chunk of her heart? Very nice.
Roommates with benefits? Yes, please.
Convincing this take-charge alpha to let her take care of him too? That’s not going to be as easy.
I’ve appreciated Erin Nicholas’s Boys of the Big Easy series because it tackles the hard realities of single parenthood all while the characters try to live a balanced life and Nice and Easy, the latest installment, tackles those issues more than the other books in this series. A young single mom and a man several years older raising his young niece who survived a car accident that killed both her parents have been supporting one another for a couple of years through the single parent’s group they belong to and by sharing childcare duties for their children; she has made it clear she wants more, he is worried about looking like a dirty, old man but one night changes everything in more ways than one.
Caleb is use to being in charge due to his job as a lieutenant with the fire department, he is also super protective (honestly a bit overbearing) of his friends especially Lexi who he has vowed to himself is off limits due to their age difference and the fact he needs her in his life to share childcare taking duties with. Caleb as a hero drove me a little bit nuts in that he made assumptions about Lexi without ever talking to her and in fact even made some decisions (demands) about her living arrangements for her and her son when he found out what was going on in her life. He also kept some big news from her regarding his niece which disappointment me greatly. While Lexi may be young, she grew up fast when she became pregnant and no one who raises an infant while attending nursing school, and taking care of another child to boot is meek and weak, in fact Lexi is resilient, strong, and knows her mind and it shows when she lays out what she wants from Caleb in no uncertain terms.
With a two year old and a four year old around, these was a lot of laughter, a few interesting tantrums, but also a lot of love. Ms. Nicolas does a great job of keeping the kids/family time from and center without sacrificing the romance between this couple. As they knew each other so well already, the relationship did move at a fast pace but most will agree it was a long time coming. Lexi had some specific demands that Caleb had to wrap his brain around which led to them knowing each other on a different level and Caleb understanding that while Lexi is quite a bit younger than him, she definitely knows her own mind.
As always author Erin Nicholas manages to mix hot and sexy with sweet and innocent making Nice and Easy a delight to read and an excellent addition to this series.
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