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Intimate Enemy (Intrigue Large Print)

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!!Warning!! Alot of spoilers!!
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Russ Calloway hates Jamie Munroe. Everyone knows it, yet when Jamie is threatened by an increasingly aggressive stalker, it's completely natural for him to offer his protection. Not only does he offer, to Jamie's complete surprise, he demands that she allow him to take care of her. While their relationship may have deteriorated almost irrevocably over the years, Russ despises the idea of anyone harming her, and vows to her that no one will get to her while he's there. Once they are again in close proximity, unable to avoid each other, all the memories of their previous love resurfaces and Russ has to wonder why he ever let her go in the first place. Now that he wants to love her again, he's going to have to fight for her, because someone else wants her too...

This was bad, borderline horrible at times. Most of the problem is that our "hero" Russ is a childish little turd with zero amount of common sense. Our hero and heroine used to date in college and Jamie thought she had found the one. He quickly sets that notion straight when he shows up at her door one day and tells her that he's finally found the one that he's going to marry. He ends it with an, it's been fun, sweetie and I hope you get over your sickness in time to catch the wedding! When I read that part my jaw just dropped. Another winner was when he told her that out of all the women he's dated, none of them mattered other than his ex-wife. Don't forget, he's talking to his ex-girlfriend here. An ex-girlfriend who is, sadly, still carrying a torch for him.

I was blown away by this guy. And not in a good way. I don't think I've ever read a more self absorbed and clueless male and if the above is not bad enough, there's more! He's bad mouthing her around town and makes no effort to hide the fact that he despises her. The reason is because Jamie represented his wife during their divorce proceedings and they both took him to the cleaners. Ha! Good! He's upset because he thought they were friends and that she owed him the courtesy of not representing his wife. He wouldn't know courtesy if it jumped up and bit him on the a$$!

But wait!! There's more!!!! Jamie was attacked a while ago. Hardly any one knows of it so Russ didn't know that when he did it. But again, who the flying frick would do something like this! Jamie sees a shadowy figure crouching down by her car. She thinks it's somebody messing with her tires so she goes out to investigate. It's Russ and he's noticed a piece of wood studded with nails underneath her tire. He tells her what he found and she can't help but suspect him. He gets insulted. So he pulls out a switchblade, opens it, and tells her he has better ways of getting to her tires than using a bunch of nails. Now admittedly, he's not waving it in her face, telling her that he was going to get her and her little dog, too. But still! What guy would face a girl alone in an abandoned parking lot at nighttime and expound upon a situation like this by pulling out a knife? Maybe common sense would dictate that he not make any sudden moves and realize that as a woman, she's naturally at a disadvantage without him whipping out the ol switchblade.

Grrrrr.

The actual plot of this story was pretty easy to figure out. No real brains needed here, which was good because after reading about Russ, my brain turned to mush anyway. Unfortunately, Russ kind of redeems himself at the end. He does throw himself into harms way to protect her and he does realize what an immature jacka** he was. So I can't hate this book. Oh, I wanted to. I wanted Jamie to take up her friend's offer and turn lesbian but unfortunately Russ changed just enough to make me kind of, sort of, begrudgingly, resentfully, wholly against my will, like him.

I wasn't buying it. I can not believe that he would actually love her when we hear all the bad mouthing, name calling he did and said about her. The fact that he goes away on a spring break meets the future wife to be, ends up in bed with her, knowing that he has a woman back home, I was like wow! And you, Jamie love this man??? What are you stupid???? She would have been better off with Robbie, Tommy or yeah even Lys!!! He said some very hurtful things that weren't meant to hurt but they did and probably because they were the truth. Why oh why couldn't she have ended up with one of the other three or even better Rafe???? Yeah she should have totally ended up with him. Even her dog didn't seem to like Russ. Maybe because the dog knew what kind of selfish a$$ he was. I guess we are supposed to buy that it just wasn't their time to hook up. Well maybe it shouldn't have been her time to hook up with him then either. He just used her and pretty much admitted to it. That was cold and malicious, man!!!