Simply Irresistable is the story of Maddie who's just lost her job, and is still healing from an abusive relationship. Upon her mother's death Maddie, along with her two half sisters, inherits the Lucky Harbor resort. Maddie sees this as an opportunity to start her life over. To stop being comsidered "the mouse" of the family. The only thing, she has to convince her sisters to go along with what she wants. 
 Along the way she meets Jax Cullen and both of them experience an attraction to each other. The only problem is neither of them was wanting / expecting to be in a relationship. Now they have to figure out what they want from each other. 
 This was a pretty quick read for me. Everything just went by pretty fast. It was a typical romance story. I liked Maddi's character, but I felt a little like she didn't stand up for her convictions good enough. She came to town swearing off men for a good ling while (with good reason too considering her previous relationship), but she almost immediately gives that up for Jax. I think the book could have benefitted taking place over a longer period of time than one month. It would have been more believable to me if Maddie and Jax slowly worked their way to the relationship, but when put inside the perimeters of the month timeline, it was too quick. 
 Jax was another character who was honestly too good to be true. He was very involved in the town. He was like the town's golden child. Even the asects of himself that he didn't like, or thought Maddie would like, were not that bad. I was waiting for some darker secret to surface which Shalvis hints at at one point, but when the reveal came, I was less than scandalized by it. I wanted to be just a little scandalized. It would have made Maddie's reactions better. Otherwise it just seems like she got angry and upset over completely little things that in the long run make no difference. 
 The back and forth between Maddie and Jax got a little old. He would reveal something about himself, Maddie wouldn't like it, she would claim that he was keeping this little thing from her, she would storm out and then they would work it out in a couple days and start all over. The thing was they had only known each other for about a month by the end of the book, yet Maddie keeps thinking that he's keeping himself from her. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes it takes longer than a month to learn everything about another individual. I understand that she's talking about important things, but still usually people start out slow. Favorite book, favorite type of music, etc before revealing every hidden aspect of themselves. Which I think this just goes to show that Maddie really should have stuck to her "swearing off men" oath a little longer. 
 I do like the set up for the next book, which will feature Maddie's older sister Tara as the main character. I wish that Jill Shalvis could have kept a little more about Tara a secret in this book so that in Tara's own book there would be a little more to learn about her. But because we've learned quite a bit already, I'm interested to see where her story goes. Until Then!