Book Review: Stuck With You

Title - Stuck with You

Author - Trish Jensen

Genre - Romance

Series - Standalone

Publication - September 1 2001

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Synopsis

As lawyers on opposing sides of a messy divorce case, Paige Hart and Ross Bennett ought to have kept matters purely professional, yet Paige and Ross came to loathe each other with an intensity that was strictly personal. The bad blood between them takes on an unexpected new dimension when the infuriated pair is forced to share a hospital room, when they're quarantined after being exposed to the rare and highly contagious Tibetan Concupiscence Virus that's reputed to shift sensual desire into high gear. When symptoms (which a nonmedical person might mistake for pure and simple lust) start showing up way ahead of schedule, the lawyers' objections to each other are overruled -- and they enjoy every minute of it. But, after the doctors declare that the disease has run its course, Paige and Ross are still feverish with a longing for one another that they hope will never be cured. When the verdict comes in, will they be sentenced to life -- in love? The trend toward funny, sexy contemporary romance has been around for a while, but Trish Jensen offers readers a fresh (in both senses of the word) take on this popular genre.

Review 

I received this book from Netgalley a while back I started it but had a hard time getting into it so I put it aside to try again, and I was pleasantly surprised this time.  The book is mainly about Paige and Ross however we do get a little of the relationship between Paige's brother Nick Hart and his former scorn love Rachel Turner. Paige and Ross are both successful lawyers who are on opposite sides of a case involving Paige's cousins messy divorce. Paige has even nicknamed Ross the Snake, because she dislikes him so much. As luck would have it the pair is in a bombing and rushed to the emergency room in a ambulance that happened to have a exotic virus the duo might have contracted while on the way. 

They wake up in the hospital quarantined in beds next to each other for the next fourteen days to see if they have  Tibetan Concupiscence Virus. The virus makes people lust after one another, Ross and Paige are no exception to this either they are both instantly feeling the attractions to one another. However Dr. Rachel Turner informs both of them that it's to early to be feeling symptoms. Over the next fourteen days the pair makes a contract to avoid any kind of lustful behavior that could cause them to do the unspeakable. 

Nick is dead set on fixing what happened back in college with the woman he loved, but she's resistant thinking all those years ago he had left her after she helped him pass his biology test. After Nick's persisting she agree's to a date and learns that he didn't ditch her after the test that he'd returned home to help his sister out and when he returned to school and she was gone he was heartbroken. 

This is a cute story a little heavy on the lusty parts for my taste but the romance of it was cute. I like that we get both sides of the story not just her side.  Plus I love the little relationship of Nick and Rachel, everyone needs a little romance in there lives. This book at first was a little hard to get into because of the action right away but the more I got to know the characters the more I wanted to know what happens. It's a good story with a cute ending. This book is filled with humor, that keeps you smiling through most of the book. I think the characters are well written and you get a good idea who they are. Even though her story was short I loved Rachel over Paige because she was just so sweet.