When I first started Crazy, Sexy Love the series title kind of freaked me out. A few years ago, there was a rash - pun definitely intended - of books about venereal diseases; honestly, they grossed me out. So, let me assuage my fears (and potentially yours), Dirty Dicks, while an important asset to the story, has nothing to do with genitalia. After I figured that out, I let myself relax into the story and truly enjoyed Monroe and Rhett’s journey back to one another.
Crazy, Sexy Love is the first book in KL Grayson’s Dirty Dicks series. Each book will focus on a different couple, but they are interconnected so you’ll see characters from each novel throughout the story. Crazy, Sexy Love is written in first-person perspective, narrated by Monroe and Rhett.
I love me a good second chance romance and Crazy, Sexy Love delivered on that front. Monroe and Rhett had wonderful chemistry, from the second Monroe saw Rhett get bucked off the bull until the final page of the book, their passion and adoration was palpable in every thought, word, and action involving the other. I was infatuated with them and how – despite the sins of their pasts – pure and almost innocent their love was.
After reading some incredibly dark, heavy, emotionally-draining book, Crazy, Sexy Love was a great holiday. Heaven was such a comforting place to go to. The characters felt familiar and real, and the town itself felt much like my own small-town America hometown. While both Rhett and Monroe faced some difficulties, they had such amazing friends and family around to support them I never felt like they were up against insurmountable odds. I just loved the dynamics Ms. Grayson put into play in this book and how content I felt while reading this book.
There were moments I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, especially in the form of a certain troublemaker, because of how little angst was in Crazy, Sexy Love. I was sure, several times how the conflict point of the book was going to play out and I think I was a little disappointed to have not got more out of the climax of the story.
KL Grayson won me over with her A Touch of Fate series and secured her place on my must-read list with The Truth About Lennon. She writes emotionally poignant stories and is adept at making her stories feel real like they could be the stories of people you’ve met throughout your life. This book didn’t quite stand up, emotionally, against her other stories, but I still very much loved the new, lighter tone she took in this book.