Sandy M’s review of Flirting in Traffic by Beth Kery
Contemporary Romance published by Cerridwen Press 5 Mar 09

What a sweet, lovely story this is. I’ve been a fan of Ms. Kery’s for a while now, and while I enjoy her paranormals and erotic books, her contemps are my favorites, and Flirting just went to the top of the list for me. We get a strong hero and heroine, each vulnerable when it comes to relationships, but this couple doesn’t let a good thing get away from them. You just feel the love.

Esa is a doctor, a lot of her patients older folks, and lately her sister and best friend have been telling her she’s becoming an old stick in the mud herself, not the fun person she used to be. To Esa, her life is safe. She’s had a couple of relationships end badly and it’s just better to be safe than hurt again. She’s just not like her sister, who’s known as Kitten, is editor of Metro Sexy, a magazine for young Chicagoans, and drives a flashy sports car. But when driving said car one night by the construction zone on Chicago streets where Scheduled Traffic Flirtation is on the rise, Esa gets an eyeful of the best man candy she’s seen in a long time. Taking her for the sex kitten the car and its license plate suggests, that handsome construction worker lets Esa know he’s interested too.

Finn is only interested in a quick fling, however, due to his recent breakup with a fiance he thought he knew. She dropped him faster than he could blink when he opted out of his lucrative architecture firm he help found to keep his family business in the black after his father and uncle passed away within months of each other. Seeing the nasty side of a woman isn’t what Finn needs, so just having some fun sex is good enough for him right now. Especially with an uninhibited sex kitten.

These two do enjoy some great sex. That’s one thing that Ms. Kery does extremely well – hot, sizzling, steamy, go-for-it-all love scenes. These are some of her best in this book. I even liked the absence of anal sex in this book. Not a thing wrong with that particular part of sex, but it seems to show up in practically every book out there anymore and it’s nice to have a break from it. But don’t worry, Finn is still demanding in bed and won’t have a thing to do with vanilla sex.

I love Finn. He’s his own man, loves his family and would do anything for them, is as sexy as can be. Esa may have gotten herself into a rut, but there’s plenty of spirit in her to be brought out by the right person and when she finds Finn, she realizes too late she should have been more honest with him so she wouldn’t be close to losing the best thing that’s ever happened to her. I like how they talk things out, own up to their mistakes to make things right, and continue on to do the best they can in life.

There’s a lot of other fun in between all this that helps make this book quite an enjoyable read. If you haven’t read Ms. Kery, definitely try this book or even Exorcising Sean’s Ghost, another of her best.

Grade: A

Summary:
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She went off like a red-hot firecracker on his foyer floor, then vanished.
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Esa never intended to participate in her best friend’s unorthodox dating scheme – flirting with hunky construction workers in Chicago traffic. Her thoughts changed when she saw a long, lean slice of heaven strutting around the side of the highway. For him, she would be the carefree sex kitten her borrowed car with its suggestive license plates implied she was.
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Though smarting from the wounds of a recent break-up, Finn can’t resist the tempting redhead driving the come-and-get-me car, flashing him contemptuous looks with those brandy-colored eyes. The lure of taming the feisty little kitten is just too great to deny…
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Reader Advisory: This book contains smoking hot, sexy scenes.
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