Tikka Chance On Me (A Novella) by Suleikha Snyder: It's a No For Me Dawg

SYNOPSIS

He’s the bad-boy biker. She’s the good girl working in her family’s Indian restaurant. On the surface, nothing about Trucker Carrigan and Pinky Grover’s instant, incendiary, attraction makes sense. But when they peel away the layers and the assumptions—and their clothes—everything falls into place. The need. The want. The light. The laughter. They have more in common than they ever could’ve guessed. Is it enough? They won’t know until they take a chance on each other—and on love. 

REVIEW

I first tried Tikka Chance on Me, months ago, but found that I couldn’t get into the story. At the time I thought it was a mood thing; maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for it. But now that I’ve completed the story, I know why I couldn't finish the book. I don’t like it.

Let’s cover the backstory. Pinky works for her parent’s restaurant/bar.   She busts tables for her parents and it’s there she meets, Trucker. Trucker’s name is splayed across the stalls of the bathrooms, and his very name is a whisper across the lips of the many women he’s slept with. Pinky is smitten despite Trucker’s reputation. And it appears he feels the same. Stolen glances and an impromptu rendezvous at a Walmart parking lot find them both panting and pant-less in the back of Trucker’s truck.

This is where it goes south for me. Everything happens so fast, it’s a speedy ride straight to instant love Ville. Pinky and Trucker have a rushed and unexplained moment of hot sex in the back of a car. They have sex again and a secret gets out. There’s this conflict that brings their decisions and their feelings to a head.  I felt like I walked into a classroom mid-lesson. I was lost, in the sense that; I didn’t get what I needed to invest in the characters. Although I admired Pinky’s spunk, and Trucker’s smart mouth; the lack of depth and connection made them feel flat and left me wanting for more. There’s a lot that could have been developed, but unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.

It’s all very, “I need you,” but I don’t know why. Why did they feel like they couldn’t do without the other? What was it that made the other so memorable? You don’t get the explanation to that. It’s unfortunate.

The book is not terrible, the writing and the underlying humor and banter, if dug deeper into would have made this a solid novel. Unfortunately, there’s just instant love that’s not based on more than the idea that; because they’ve been “crushing” on each other for years—them being a couple makes sense. I wasn’t buying it.

I’m sorry, but it’s a no for me.