Some Like it Wicked.

Yeah girl. Me too. I like it wicked and I'm suitably impressed with this romance. I hadn't ever picked up a Teresa Medeiros book. I'm asking myself "why not?" and drawing a blank. As an initiation Some Like it Wicked worked for me. Yes, I love the book because I love the hero. Get used to it, ladies and gents. I have a weakness for witty rogues, I mean...who doesn't? I enjoyed the snappy dialog and Mr. Wescott's double entendres. Yum yum. I found myself re-reading certain passages simply because I thought they were adorable/hilarious. Once I realized that there were going to be many many examples of this I started marking the pages with my sticky notes. I'm counting them now. 1...6...17. I have 17 tabs in this 372 page book. I probably would've had more if my mind had been on the task of marking, instead of absorbed in reading "one more chapter." I'm always going to read "one more chapter" then...bam! I'm reading the epilogue at 5 in the morning.

Simon Wescott is on my boyfriend list. Why? Because he says things like: "I'll have you know that I stopped trifling with married women years ago. They had an annoying habit of falling in love with me and insisting on divorcing their husbands." He can also be sweet. Simon is actually (newly) credited with one of my all-time favorite examples of drunken tenderness: "Goodnight Mrs. Wescott," he whispered into her hair. "I hope all of your dreams are of me." And am I the only one who thinks it's irresistible that he is totally and utterly befuddled by being outsmarted by a woman. I could quote and quote and quote, but I can't very well reprint the book here. You'll have to read it. (Amazon here) I liked Catriona, she puts Simon in his place and is just as quick (if not quicker) than he is with scathing/witty/sarcastic remarks. Simon, you guys know how I feel about Simon. I liked Kieran (a Highlander) immensely. I want him to a have a book of his own. Alice, the spoiled bitch, needs to be beheaded, or at the very least thrown from a carriage while traveling at a "breakneck" speed.

The short of it: Catriona lives with her Scottish (turned English) uncle, his spoiled bitch of a daughter, and his out of touch wife. She first meets Simon (and begins her headlong tumble into love) at age 15 when he is about to seal the deal with aforementioned spoiled bitch. 5 years later she wants to go home to the Scottish Highlands to reunite her clan, but her uncle refuses and has all intentions of marrying her off. Catriona storms Newgate and makes a deal with Simon so that she doesn't end up wed and unable to fulfill her dream. Simon and Catriona succeed in ruining her reputation (hilarious scene, by the way) and are "forced" to Gretna Green for a quick and quiet wedding. They take off for the Highlands. The rest...well, suffice it to say that it's entertaining (albeit a tad predictable) and definitely worth reading. Trust me.

Final Grade: A.