Review: No Dress Required by Cari Quinn

Nellie and Jake have known each other a long time. Jake is the older brother of Nellie’s best friend. There’s been chemistry between them in the past but nothing they’ve acknowledged to each other on or acted upon. Both are adults now, and Nellie is ready to make her move now that Jake is single and back in town. She plans to seduce Jake at his sister’s New Year’s Eve party and get her man, once and for all. But a wrench gets thrown into her plans when she is carjacked the night of the party. When Jake happens upon the scene of the crime and finds Nellie, not in the glamorous dress she planned to wear to seduce him, but in a t-shirt and fuzzy socks, she’s disappointed. But apparently fuzzy socks turn Jake’s crank because the old familiar chemistry reignites opening up the door for all sorts of possibilities.

But her pink cheeks, mile long eyelashes, and curvy body added up to one heck of a package. A package he wanted to unwrap, one fuzzy sock at a time.

No Dress Required is a fun, friends to lovers story. No time for major emotional drama, this is a straight up romance that features two people who have been attracted to each other in the past, and now the timing—if not the circumstances—is finally right. Although things don’t really go according to plan for Nellie, fate has other ideas and somehow it all works out. There is just enough turbulence to create some smoking hot tension, but no major emotional conflicts or relationship hurdles to overcome, and I really enjoyed that.

At 65 pages, No Dress Required is a very quick read. It’s romantic and sexy and makes carjacking seem not so bad if there’s a reward like Jake at the end.

Favorite Quote:

They’d already violated Alexa’s couch, which he was tempted to ask his sister to bronze.

Rating: B
No Dress Required by Cari Quinn
December 27th 2011 by Entangled Publishing
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