Dr. Hottie, Vivian Wood

Beer, tequila, exes, jealousy, and a pair of wedding rings...  All the best decisions are made while plastered, right?  In Addy and Jack's case it could spell disaster or happily ever after, but nothing is ever that simple or black and white.  Families, restrained desire, withheld feelings, and tragedy all threaten to derail what they're building together and it'll take something deeper, infinitely more vulnerable than shared passion between the sheets to keep them together.

Addy has the weight of the world resting on her narrow shoulders.  She knows that no one else can do what she does but she would love a break.  With the whole town congregating at everyone's favorite dive bar she gets roped into joining by her little sister.  What she's not expecting is a meeting with a hot doctor that will change her life forever.

Jack is running from maternal expectations and the pretty girl in cut-offs is just the distraction he needs.  Until he wakes up with a titanium band on his all-important finger.  But as he gets to know her, sees that she's unique, genuine, responsible, fun, funny, and impossibly sexy, he begins to think that being married to Addy isn't such a hardship.  And maybe he'd like staying married to her...

It isn't actually clear that he wants to make Rosalie jealous so when it's brought up it's actually kind of an eyebrow-raiser.  I mean, he suggested doing it for his own reasons in dealing with his mom's machinations as well as the Jeremy problem so it seems like an extra complication that's unnecessary for anything except creating extra angst and discomfort for Addy.  It works but I think I would have preferred not hearing Jack's thoughts about Rosalie's body and having her just be the friendly ex that befriends Addy instead of having all the glares, frostiness, and intimations of manipulation that all too easily make way for friendship after commiseration over wine.

The real drama is the family angle.  Addy's dad and Jack's mom.  Both situations were dramatic enough on their own and the resolution was equally dramatic, at least on Addy's end.  I think the reunion on the romantic end of things should have been given more time and attention, especially the confessions.  The flash mob was a nice touch, it was endearing and a very "Jack" move and was terribly sweet.  It was also enough to lighten the tension that permeated the last third of the story.

Overall I enjoyed the story and felt that the intensity was warranted with all the stuff going on for the characters as individuals.  As for their relationship, it felt like a lot of their knowledge of one another was off-page with summarized statements of them chatting about their lives and likes.  That could have been developed further with the external drama being streamlined and simplified to increase its impact on the readers as well as the MC's.  They had the potential to balance one another and to encourage each others' growth.  The tenderness was there, though, when it counted and I liked Jack and Addy together both in their incredible sexual chemistry as well as partners in life.

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