Reviews for Fast Track

The average rating for Fast Track based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-12-12 00:00:00 Joe Sherburne Reviewed for queuemyreview.com; book release Dec08 Fast cars, sexy men, and a beauty makeover�what more do you need for a hot Southern romance? Throw in a little NASCAR and female fans will run out to buy the book. �Slippery When Wet� is author Kimberly Raye�s latest novel and is sure to hit the spot for readers looking for a little warmth in their holiday season. Jaycee has hit the big time. She�s the first woman to break into the one of the top spots on the NASCAR circuit. Last season she was number four, this season she plans to end at number three, but she�ll need to �pass� her childhood crush Rory to do so. But in the expensive sport of NASCAR, a team needs a sponsor and Jaycee�s is threatening to pull the plug! They want a softer, more feminine driver�so Jaycee pulls up her big girl pants and agrees to a total makeover (including some pretty tiny �big girl� pants). When Rory appears to be cozying up to her, she�s sure it�s either: A) because of her sex goddess makeover, or B) because he�s figured out her crush; but any way you slice it, she�s determined not to let him throw her off her game. Now if she could just get her body to cooperate. Rory has regretted turning Jaycee away for years now. She was the only one who understood him and that he could really talk to. But his father made it clear that if he didn�t give his all to driving, he would be disowned and with his mother already dead, Rory couldn�t chance it. When he gets a load of her makeover, he realizes Jaycee has certainly filled out into a gorgeous woman. But it�s not until he thinks there�s another man pursuing her that he figures out he can�t afford to let her get away from him again. This was a fast-moving book (ha ha) that starts with a bang, slowed a bit in the middle, and then ended almost too quickly. There was quite a bit of information regarding Jaycee and Rory�s early relationship that was left out and what we did get was kind of dribbled in bit by bit over the course of the book. I never did get a good feeling for why Rory turned Jaycee away so harshly that it resulted in an almost total break�yet the small world these two moved in would have meant they saw each other regularly. With the strong feelings each supposedly had for each other, that situation just didn�t make sense to me! Maybe it was that �lack� that made me feel these two were more about having sex, really hot sex, than having such deep feelings for each other. I don�t necessarily NEED for main characters to have deep feelings, but if that�s what�s intimated, then I want to be able to feel it�and I didn�t with these two. The �backstage� look at NASCAR was done well and the truth of the fickle advertising/money side of the business was a good plot device. The character of Jaycee and her inner monologue while undergoing her transformation had me laughing more often than not. I wasn�t quite as fond of the bickering between the two lead characters as I wanted to put these children across my knee and spank them into politeness at times�but maybe that�s just me. �Slippery When Wet� was a fairly hot, quick read with a happy ending. It felt like Kimberly Raye may be setting up for another book in this world, which I would probably read as I did enjoy the backdrop and secondary characters. While it�s not a book that will head for my keeper shelf, it�s not a stinker or wall-banger either, so I�ll keep an eye out for this author�s next book and she where she takes me.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-01 00:00:00 Drexel Swartwood I�ve been having luck reading and enjoying contemporaries lately. Then I hit the proverbial brick wall with this book. It�s not a really bad book. It�s just not a really good book either. It�s slow reading and has a hero and heroine that I just couldn�t warm up to. At first I thought maybe it was the NASCAR theme that didn�t appeal to me. I�m not into racing, so that seemed logical. But the more I read the more I realized there were other problems for me. First, Rory and Jaycee, our hero and heroine, spend very little time together for much of the book. They�ve been friends since they were kids, but when Jaycee as a teenager dolled herself up to make a play for her man, he rejected her and that was the end of their friendship. They�ve seen each other here and there because they�re both NASCAR drivers, and now that they�re taking over the top spots after each race, things are heating up and they�re thrown together more for publicity reasons. That�s when we find out Rory does have feelings for Jaycee, but he�s determined to keep them buried because racing is his life and he won�t allow any distractions. So he stays as far away from her as possible. No matter how worked up he gets just seeing her. But they�re competitors and that�s just the way it has to be. However, his racing begins to be affected when he can�t keep his concentration on the track. So maybe the better way to go would be to just bed her and get her out of his system. So begins the turnaround of his attitude toward Jaycee that has her completely baffled. Until she realizes that it�s not her that has Rory now sniffing around. It�s the makeover her sponsor has insisted she go through to make her more likable to their demographic targets. She�s always been a grease monkey because it was the only way to get her father�s attention. He lived and breathed racing, so she did too. When he passed away, his will stipulated that Jaycee and her older sister, Riley, had to spend the next racing season together before they made the decision to stay with the team or walk away. Not knowing she had an older sister, it�s taking everything Jacyee�s got just to get through her days, let alone the next year. And now on top of that, she�s got Rory and his smiles and dimples and that body to contend with. So until Rory makes his decision to have Jaycee, which is more than halfway through the book, all we get is Jaycee�s makeover, talk about Rory�s chauvinist father�s attitude, Riley constantly haranguing Jaycee about the makeover and other tidbits before we have the two finally together and things happening between them. Even when they get intimate the first time irritated me. After all was said and done, everything else came to a dead stop and they couldn�t get away from each other fast enough. And that�s before Rory�s decision. I actually wanted more about Riley and her attraction to Trick Donovan, an ex-racer with a NASCAR talk show. There�s a spark between them that really interested me, but it never came up again. Maybe they�re being saved for a future book. I checked the author�s site to find out, along with some other info, but sadly it�s a site lacking on book information. Practically nil on this book alone. I�m hoping it�s a good sign that I want to read a story about characters in this book. Too bad it�s not the one I got. See my complete review at