Title:  Wrong Number, Right Guy
Series:  The Bourbon Street Boys #1
Author:  Elle Casey
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  September 22, 2015
Publisher:  Montlake Romance
My Rating:  2 stars
Source:  Borrowed, Kindle Unlimited
Cover Description:

When a mysterious text message summons May Wexler to a biker bar in downtown New Orleans, she knows something is very wrong. Her sister has sent out an SOS, but when May gets there, she’s nowhere to be found and May is the one in trouble—she’s wearing pink espadrilles, she’s got a Chihuahua in her purse, and she’s in the middle of a shootout.

After tall, muscular Ozzie comes to her rescue, May has no choice but to follow him to safety. At the headquarters of his private security firm, the Bourbon Street Boys, she finds a refuge for the night—and the offer of a job. But it’s not long before a gun-toting stalker isn’t the only complication in May’s life: the more time she spends with Ozzie, the less she can deny that they’ve got some serious chemistry. A wrong number got her into this mess…Will it also get her the right guy?

Read on for my thoughts on Wrong Number, Right Guy.  No true spoilers, promise.

This is the type of review I do not like to write – so I publish very few of them.  But I’ve decided I’m not being realistic because not everyone is going to love every single thing that they read.  What I didn’t like about a story just might be what makes it a hit for someone else.

The premise of this story is what caught my attention.  May gets a text late at night from a phone number that she assumes is her sister’s new phone.  And it sounds enough like her sister when drunk and pissed that she follows the instructions given to her.  Only to find out that she’s heading into a completely dangerous situation with a lot of badassed guys she does not want to be around.  Enter the hero, undercover of course, who saves the girl’s butt and after falling madly in love they live happily ever after.  Ah, No, didn’t happen quite like I had expected.

So, let me be clear.  I will pick up the next story in The Bourbon Street Boys series because I like the idea of the series, I enjoyed the secondary characters far more than the main couple in this particular book – so I’m going to try it again on the next book.  Once May becomes a secondary character.

Yes, that’s right.  I allowed one main character to set the tone for my reaction to this story.  I found her to be annoying.  Grating, even.  Her constant self-conversations read like a bad comedy skit and I wasn’t amused, at all.  And perhaps worst of all I didn’t give a crap about her safety, her love life or if she got a happy ending.  To say I did not connect with May is a vast understatement.

And that reaction is really sad from my point of view.  I loved Elle Casey’s Shine Not Burn and MacKenzie Fire.  I expected to react the same way about Wrong Number, Right Guy.  I’m disappointed that I didn’t.  But I will continue with the series in the hopes that this was just an off-story for me personally.

If you like slapstick comedy, if you enjoy a constant conversation with the heroine as in hearing her every thought spoken and unspoken – then this might be the right story for you.  Unfortunately, it was all wrong for me.  And that happens, not every story is for every reader.  I hope you feel differently about this one.  I’m hoping for something different from the rest of this series because I really did like the secondary characters who will certainly have their own stories in the future.

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