Review: Butterface

Butterface by Avery Flynn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Gina Luca is a wedding planner, she is also related to the Esposito family of mobsters, her grandfather was Big Nose Tommy who disappeared 20 years ago. She has become accustomed to the fact that she has inherited her grandad's nose as well as his Victorian house and she is comfortable with who she is, until a wedding cam catches her and one of the sexiest police detectives at Waterbury Police Department, Ford Hartigan. Ford is a by-the-book kind of guy, a rule-follower, the only thing he ever did outside the lines was to become a police officer instead of a fireman like the rest of his family.

Ford is attracted to the curvy, sexy wedding planner but he could never date someone related to organised crime, Gina's brothers are known to skirting the edges of criminality and he can't be associated with that kind of thing. Until his captain orders him to get closer to Gina in order to find out if her brothers are involved in a big drugs shipment expected to arrive soon. His bog opportunity when Gina discovers what seems to be her Grandad Tommy's remains in her house and Ford moves in 'for her own safety'.

Attracted to a woman who might be involved in criminality, Ford is torn between doing his job and falling for Gina. On her side, Gina knows a hottie like Ford isn't interested in her, she just can't quite work out what his angle is. Ever since she was labelled Butterface (good body, but her face!) Gina has known she's been hit by the ugly stick. So we've got a by-the-books cop lying to a woman with non-existent self-esteem.

This was a fun read, I liked Gina and Ford, and Ford's big noisy family. There's house renovations and cannoli and family dinners and insensitive jerks and bitchy women. A lovely funny romance.

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