A review by mellie_me
Lock 'N' Load by Tee O'Fallon

2.0

Barf.

K-9 cop romance story - sounds good, right? Right.

Trista Gold, top CIA analyst, stumbles into some serious conspiracy shit and so the Russians try to kill her a couple times. Matt, a CIA K-9 cop human officer person, saves her life and whisks her away to protect her.

Some special features include:

-A heroine who is undercover hot - super petite and shapely (even though she spends 10 hours a day minimum sitting at her work computer) with bright green eyes and tussled blonde hair, yet somehow neither she nor anyone else has ever considered the possibility that she might be pretty until the hero does.

-She is astoundingly intelligent, but keeps doing dumb stuff. My favorite example is that after her identity is compromised and someone tries to kill her, she - the CIA's top analyst - is positive that it was just a coincidence. Definitely, definitely nothing to do with her work. More examples of questionable judgment include naming her cat "Poofy" and swearing like a preschooler.

-Regency-worthy sex, including surprise virginity and an "I don't know how it will fit!" moment.

-The hero is very tall ("she barely comes up to his pecs") and stately with emotional baggage the likes of which mere mortals cannot fathom. And he went to Harvard.

I kept hoping it would get better, but it really didn't.