Book Review: One and Only by Jenny Holiday

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One and Only

Author: Jenny Holiday

Genre: Contemporary romance
Publisher: Forever
Publication Date: Feb 27, 2018
Stars: Five of them, baby!
GoodReads ---  Amazon

Summary: With her bridezilla friend on a DIY project rampage, bridesmaid Jane Denning will do anything to escape - even if it means babysitting the groom's troublemaker brother before the wedding. It should be a piece of cake, except the "cake" is a sarcastic former soldier who is 100% wicked hotness and absolutely off-limits.

Cameron MacKinnon is ready to let loose after returning from his deployment. But first he'll have to sweet talk the ultra-responsible Jane into taking a walk on the wild side. Turns out, riling her up is the best time he's had in years. But what happens when the fun and games start to turn into something real?

Review: Five beautiful, shiny stars for this absolutely delightful book. I started it on the recommendation of the lovely Elley Otter and her pitch was "Peekaboo! She wears a Xena costume! And she's plus sized!" and you bet your ass that sold it to me. 
This is one of those books that I enjoyed from start to finish. I picked it up, and when I had to put it down, I thought "I am genuinely excited to keep reading this book" because the two main characters were awesome. 

I think back now on all the times I've said "the main characters were awesome" in a review, and all of those characters pale in comparison to Jane and Cam. Jane was everything I wanted in a heroine. She was smart, funny, a giant nerd, but more than that she felt real. I want to go to ComicCon with Jane, and be the (slightly gay) Gabrielle to her Xena. Cam was tortured in that way ex-military heroes often are, which I don't usually get into, but it gave them a place of connection and a depth to his character that I really appreciated.

The sex was HAWWWTTT, you guys. So hot I had to text Elley about it. I loved that Jane had body issue hangups like so many of us, but Cam gave zero fucks about them, and thought she was perfect from moment one, and wasn't afraid to tell her so. Also, the consent boner riseth high in this book. There was open dialogue about sex, he stopped when she said the slightest no, and everything was just super fun, and chill, and amazing. 

I am excited to read book 2, but I have no idea how it is going to live up to book 1. This one was just so gooooood.

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