Review: Eye Candy by Jiffy Kate

Eye Candy by Jiffy Kate
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC in exchange for an honest review.  This will be published on February 16th and is part of the Smartypants Romance Universe.

This is book 3 in The Fighting for Love series.  The previous books were marketed under The Donner Bakery series and recently got a cover makeover.  Each book is a standalone, but you will gain a better understanding of the other couples mentioned in this book if you read the previous books in the series.  I feel you can read them all as standalones though and pick them all up individually.

This follows Maggie, a shy, sheltered member of the Green Valley community.  At 24 she still lives at home and works for her parents at the family's feed store in town.  Her parents were fairly protective of her growing up and Maggie doesn't have much social or life experience.  Vali is the middle child of the Erikson clan.  His older brother, Cage has moved to town and opened a gym to teach mixed martial arts.  Cage is training their other brother Gunnar for an MMA title, so Vali has come to visit and escape their home town of Dallas to get away from some drama.  Maggie is doing research at the gym for her secret gossip column for the local paper, so when she runs into Vali at the gym she can't help but be attracted to him.  He is intrigued by this shy girl, but he isn't interested in anything permanent.  Maggie and Vali's paths keep crossing and they decide to spend time together getting to know each other, no labels, no strings attached.  The more time they spend together the harder it is for them to stay away from each other.

I really appreciated that Vali and Maggie took things slow.  While there was an instant attraction, they took their time getting to know one another and actually fall in love.  Their relationship progressed fairly realistically, and I felt like they were pretty honest with each other.  I always appreciate when couples communicate with each other like grown ups in books.  This was well written.  I really enjoyed it and I loved that we got to see the couples of the previous books.  I really enjoyed watching Maggie step out of her comfort zone and grow into her own person.  Vali got over his baggage and wasn't put off by Maggie's lack of experience and inexperience with life and other things.  He was willing to wait for her to be ready to experience everything with him at her pace.  This was yet another great addition to the series and the Smartypants Romance Universe!

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