4 - 4 1/2 STARS. 
 I really enjoyed this as a KA book, but the same things that held me back from a 5 star rating with Motorcycle Man were still around - namely the startling similarities to the MC in SOA. 
 I did enjoy Shy & Tabby, and the first 35% was good - loved how their story was progressing. Then it got a little boring. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them being a couple without drama for drama's sake thrown in, but it was just an endless stream of the same arguments, the same sex, etc. 
 Some of my "Eh" was the fact that so many of KA's tried & true character story and prose played out yet again. What amuses me about that is, when I reread some of her books, those things don't bother me. But when I get a new one I find myself being annoyed when vastly different characters act or say the same thing. It's almost like she hears every character in the same voice - her own. I mean, who says "Pardon?" all the time? No 23 year old nurse raised in Denver, Colorado as an MC's princess, that I can promise you. The men have had some variety in this, but the clipped non-adjective speak for all of her men who qualify as badasses? Over it. 
 Still, I did like that Tabby & Shy were younger and I enjoyed their individual character journey's but I just am not sure this is the KA series I wish KA had her focus on. I read the preview of the next book and I can honestly say there isn't one thing about it that appeals to me. Another couple around 40 getting it on? Another mustache hero? No. Thank. You. 
 Now if the next book were about Rush or this new guy, THAT I could get excited about. 
 I hate to sound so bitchy and negative, I really did like this book and I still love KA, I'm just in a mood right now.