Louise Bay is pretty much the only romance author I will buy. I use my KU subscription to read the others. Just for comparison, I loved the Duke of Manhattan and King of Wall Street, and most of that series. I did not like the yacht books. I loved most of the Mr series.
I almost stopped reading this at 28%, but instead scrolled until I got to their first intimate act and scrolled some more until I got to the big conflict. That’s how boring this book was.
It was pretty disappointing. It starts out with the FMC, Truly, working very hard with her twin sister on fundraising for their mother’s foundation. One day her sister tells her that the MMC, Noah, is coming to lunch after having been across the ocean in New York for four years. Then we learn that Truly and Noah once were very close, like best friends, and they almost kissed the night before he went to New York. Inexplicably, though they were best friends, they haven’t been in touch in four years. As soon as Truly hears his name, she gets out of sorts with all the memories of the near-kiss and how the butterflies in her stomach are just like they were before he left. For his part, Noah is happy to see her but there is no indication that he has thought about her at all, and later in the book he pretty much confirms that.
Although she is the one who initiates a casual relationship, of course we know that’s not going to fly. However, I was pretty dismayed at how happy he was to go along with it. I think my disappointment was rooted in the fact that the author used the trope of the guy being OK with casual until he was going to lose the girl, then he realizes how much she’s in love with her. But even then it wasn’t sketched out very well.
I liked Truly. She was very smart and most of the time I was saying “yeah girl” when she was setting up boundaries. Noah is probably my least-liked Bay MMC, and that’s saying a lot because I was really ticked off at the guy in the Prince of Park Place or whatever it was called. Except for an early bout of jealousy, he was just too casual in the way he thought about her. He was very supportive of her, I really liked that, but outside of bed he wasn’t very passionate.
Anyway, I don’t know that I would recommend this to anyone. I guess one reason is because when I read a romance, I want the trope stuff, I want the passion, the jealousy, some denying of feelings, but followed up by contradictory behavior. I know it’s not real life, but I don’t read romance for real life. If I were reading a mainstream book, I expect more realistic relationship stuff.
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So... I went back and forth between the Audible and ebook versions of this AND I preordered the paperback, so I'm not quite sure which edition to review. So overall, I really enjoyed Noah and Truly - there were both relatively unique characters and their chemistry, as well as the sort of forced proximity of their relationship, is very entertaining. I do wish that we could have delved a little bit deeper into them individually. Yes, we do get to know them both a bit, but it sort of felt a tad surface level and I would have enjoyed some deeper insights into their motivations and then I would have felt more attached to them as characters and to their story. Now this could be a case of me needing to do a reread - perhaps I'll pick up on details I missed the first time around and I did like the book enough to be willing to read it again. I've never been disappointed in a book from Louise Bay and International Player is no exception, though it did leave me wanting more. She will continue to be a auto buy/preorder author for me and I look forward to reading more from her. 4 out of 5 wine glasses.
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