Slick's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 Review copy provided for an honest review 
 3 STARS 
 Sometimes you read a book where you don't really connect to the characters and for me, Fighting For Irish was one of those books. In the first two books of this series, I loved the characters, the way they related to each other, and the path that led them to be together. 
 In this book I hated the secrets and the games and kept hoping one or both characters would realize it was no way to begin a relationship and come clean. The thing is I didn't hate this book I just didn't love it like I did the others which made me a little sad. However, I still consider Gina L Maxwell one heck of a writer and applaud her for the hard subject matter this book dealt with and the way both the main characters dealt with it. 
 When Aiden (Irish) O'Brien's best friend asks him to go and check on his soon to be sister in law he's ready for a change and accepts. What he doesn't expect is to have an immediate attraction to his subject. Using an alias, Aiden soon realizes that there's way more to the story of Kat MacGregor and he intends on getting to the bottom of it. 
 Kat has been running most of her adult life but her troubles of late have put her on high alert and while she likes looking at the newly hired "cooler" at the bar she works at, she knows touching isn't a possibility. There are way too many skeletons in her closet to allow herself to get close to anyone again. 
 I enjoyed the interplay between Kat and Irish and there were some wicked (yeah, I'm using that term) funny moments between Irish and his friend Xander. In fact, the dialog throughout this story was very smart and entertaining. It was the relationship between Aiden and Kat that left me feeling cold. I didn't feel the heat between them and I really did not like the secrets they both kept from one another early on; secrets that would have explained a lot and helped them understand one another better. 
 While I didn't connect well with the characters there was still enough good about this story to keep me interested. Fighting for Irish was a bit of a miss for me, but it won't stop me from reading this author's future work.