Top Shelf is another in Jamieson’s enjoyable series revolving around hockey players for the fictional Chicago Aces. The hero in this book is Jared Rudd who also owns a restaurant/bar called the Sin Bin. Into the bar walks Sidney Frayne who, without realizing that Jared is the owner, starts criticizing the martini menu. He finds her hot; she finds him hot. You know where this is going, right?
He hires her to revamp his martini menu and they quickly fall into bed together. They both agree that neither wants a romantic relationship; they just want sex. You know what happens to those vows, right?
So the basic plot is pretty predictable. The fun is in seeing their relationship develop, learning about martinis and eavesdropping on Sidney and her friends and Jared and his teammates. Sometimes, it seemed that Jamieson was taking shortcuts as the plot developed. There would be a set-up for the two to do something together and then we’d go to the next chapter and that scene was in the past. It makes the book read faster, but I was enjoying the characters and the dialogue and would have enjoyed reading the anticipated scene play out instead of just being passed over. All this is interspersed with a lot of sex - more than I remembered from her previous books. I would have preferred more character development and less descriptions of her giving him oral sex. I’m not a prude in reading contemporary romances, but I didn’t need to read that more than once.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a free review copy in exchange for an honest review.
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