Making Him Sweat (Wilinski #1) [Mercer & Jenna] by Meg Maguire

Jenna inherits a fighting club that belonged to her father who died recently. she hadn't seen her father in years since her parents divorced. she always had her mother's point of view of what happened then, and it wasn't a positive one.. especially when her father was involved in something illegal (though he was cleared of charges in the end). Jenna isn't interested in the club, but likes where it is placed, so she wants to close it and open a matchmaking business. 


along the story she comes to learn that her father was not what and who she thought he was, and also she falls in love with Mercer - the guy her father left as the manager of the club. someone who thinks of her father as his own. he is the one that helps her get to know her father and understand who he was. Jenna doesn't only falls in love with Mercer, she also falls in love with the club and doesn't want to close it. too bad the company she is signed to doesn't want a fighting club with a bad reputation to open one of its brunches near it - and expect her to close the club as soon as possible. 

I liked the idea of the story, I liked how it progressed but I thought that the ending was rushed.. 
this book is quite short (round 200 pages) so I don't understand why the ending was written this way. 
I felt like I wanted to hear more about a certain event but the story ended before we "got there". and also I wanted to read even a page, an epilogue maybe, about how everything worked out. we are left of a sense of future. but I wish we had a little more of that because there are still problematic things that was "hanging" there (even from the beginning)

Additional Details: Kindle Ebook, 224 pages, 23 July 2013 / On GoodReads

 

ABOUT THIS SERIES

 

Cara McKenna who writes Erotica under her name and Contemporary Romance under this pan name (Meg Maguire) brings us - Willinski - a really sweet series of a strange kinda "combination" between Willinski fighting club and a matchmaking agency.

In the first book we meet Jenna WIllinski who inherited the fighting club from her father. Jenna didn't have any connection to her father after her parents split up and since he had quite the stain in his past she add no sentiment for the fighting club he built, all she wanted is use the space to open a matchmaking agency. That's the setting of all three of the books.

In each installment one of the characters from the matchmaking agency or the fighting club finds their HEA. I really enjoyed each and every one of the character's life story. It was beautifully built and a joy to read especially how it all works out in the end for all of them :)

I also loved the difference between the two places and how it was built into the story. In a way it was Masculinity vs Femininity in the most stereotypical way, and yet it wasn't somehow (especially in the last book). So different, yet somehow people will be people and it's all in the heart in the end :)

Really good series. The second was my favorite, the first was really good as well, the third was OK (though it did have a different note to it that made it special)

Books:
1. Making Him Sweat ("All or Nothing") [Mercer & Jenna] (published 19 February 2013) ★ ★ ★ ★
2. Taking Him Down ("Going to Distance") [Rich & Lindsey] (published 23 July 2013) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3. Driving Her Wild ("Takedown") [Steph & Patrick] (published 1 November 2013) ★ ★ ★ ½

(Note - The books were re-published under new names).