Contemp Review: Slow Ride (Fast Track) [Paperback]

I've finished "Slow Ride" the 5th book in her Fast Track series by Erin McCarthy.

As a tribute to her late journalist father, Tuesday Jones is planning a career benefit, auctioning off racing memorabilia and meet - and - greets with drivers. Ex-racing star Diesel Lange has had his own brush with death, and is determined not to waste another minute of his life - especially when he meets Tuesday. He wants nothing more than to shift their romance into high gear, but he knows she's still grieving. Can Diesel do the one thing he could never do on the track and take it slow?

Product Details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425243966
ISBN-13: 978-0425243961

My Review:

Tuesday Jones knows all about the racing track world.  Her dad was a very respectful racing track journalist and she has her own Tuesday Talladega racing gossip blog.  She is devastated when her dad dies from cancer six months after being diagnosed and turns to drinking to numb her pain.  At her father's funeral ex-driver Daniel Diesel Lange comforts and sympathizes with her.  Four weeks later she bumps into him again at her best friend's wedding.

Two years ago Diesel was a top racing car driver but that all came to a crashing halt when his car crashed into a wall and he almost died.  He now lives a normal life and keeping to himself.  He finds it hard to meet women until he meets Tuesday.

The chemistry between them is extremely hot and the love scenes are steamy and sexy.  I didn't really like Tuesday because most of the time she is drunk and says and does stuff she normally wouldn't do if she were sane.  She is quite rude and brass.

Diesel is a sexy alpha male but I wish he got Tuesday some help with her drinking.

3/5

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!