A review by abetterpaige
The Wild One by Daisy Jane

lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
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Here I go, starting another Daisy Jane series! The Wild One is book one in The Wrench King series - a series that will give us the love stories of the 4 main people who work at one location of The Wrench King - a car shop. Book one is Beau’s story with Beck - a reverse age-gap, single mom romance! 
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Beck and Beau meet when he’s not at his best, it’s been about a year since his father passed away and dropped a bomb on his life, and even after 12 months, he still finds himself at the bottom of a bottle trying to drown away his sorrows. He’s drunk and hungover (the worst combo) at work when Beck walks in to get her air conditioner fixed. Their first interaction goes… well, less than well, and a week later when she comes to pick up her car, Beau prepares to apologize. What he wasn’t prepared for was to fall in love at first, or I guess second, sight. Can they come back from their rocky start, and will Beck be able to accept love after divorcing her dirtbag ex? 
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I really struggled to like Beck. She was supposed to be about 10 years older than Beau but she had the emotional maturity of a mid-twenty something at best. Her character wasn’t fully developed and she flip-flopped a lot throughout the story which I didn’t like. Beau was lovable and so, so sweet, but I kind of wish that he’d had a little more growth. I don’t know that meeting someone is enough to pull you fully out from a funk like the one that he was in, and it felt a little savior complexy and wasn’t really addressed. He was never shy or dishonest, though, which I love, and that also made it harder to like Beck because she just didn’t see what was right in front of him??? 
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The dirty talk and kinks were on point (check the author’s reading guide), and I thought the steamy writing was better in this book than some of the other books of Daisy’s that I’ve read. I’m excited to read the rest of the series and just hope I like the future FMCs more! 
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