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DNF
I had to stop halfway through for my sanity. What in the world did I just read???? I really hate giving bad reviews. It's why I only rated what I read for so long. It's has to be hard to write a book AND get people to read it. I have read things by Liv Morris previously and managed to finish. But this was awful.
The heroine's name is Contesssa. Tessa to her friends. Apparently the name fits? According to everyone in the book anyway. And boy does she have a daddy complex. Then we have Barclay Hammond, the hero of this story. She calls him Mr. Hammond in some pseudo daddy/dom fantasy. Gross.
The dynamic was just icky to me. She gets coffee spilled on her in his office building by his secretary and strips down to nothing so they can send her clothes to the cleaner! Because apparently just going home and changing and then sending the cleaning bill is just crazy. The secretary gives her a trench coat that is too short. But she goes with her "daddy/Dom", who is essentially a stranger, on an hour trip in a car to her favorites authors house. In said too short trench coat. UMMM HELLO??!!?
When they get back to her hotel room after a few hours, the NYPD is there. Because Tessa's family has been trying to reach her all afternoon and was not able to. So her brother, who is a police officer in her home town, has somehow got the NYPD to search her room for clues.
When Tessa gets her brother on the phone, Barclay wants to talk to him (Barclay owns the hotel). The brother, who's name I can't recall, asked Barclay if the hotel guests had a curfew!!! Yep. You read that right. A curfew. For hotel guests. And then the brother asks Barclay, a total stranger, to watch out for his sister.
And I'm out. I couldn't take it anymore. Halfway through the book and he wasn't even her boss yet. I have better things to do with my time. Netflix just let me know season 5 of The Great British Baking Show is now available. I have pastry dough to watch rise.
The heroine's name is Contesssa. Tessa to her friends. Apparently the name fits? According to everyone in the book anyway. And boy does she have a daddy complex. Then we have Barclay Hammond, the hero of this story. She calls him Mr. Hammond in some pseudo daddy/dom fantasy. Gross.
The dynamic was just icky to me. She gets coffee spilled on her in his office building by his secretary and strips down to nothing so they can send her clothes to the cleaner! Because apparently just going home and changing and then sending the cleaning bill is just crazy. The secretary gives her a trench coat that is too short. But she goes with her "daddy/Dom", who is essentially a stranger, on an hour trip in a car to her favorites authors house. In said too short trench coat. UMMM HELLO??!!?
When they get back to her hotel room after a few hours, the NYPD is there. Because Tessa's family has been trying to reach her all afternoon and was not able to. So her brother, who is a police officer in her home town, has somehow got the NYPD to search her room for clues.
When Tessa gets her brother on the phone, Barclay wants to talk to him (Barclay owns the hotel). The brother, who's name I can't recall, asked Barclay if the hotel guests had a curfew!!! Yep. You read that right. A curfew. For hotel guests. And then the brother asks Barclay, a total stranger, to watch out for his sister.
And I'm out. I couldn't take it anymore. Halfway through the book and he wasn't even her boss yet. I have better things to do with my time. Netflix just let me know season 5 of The Great British Baking Show is now available. I have pastry dough to watch rise.
I haven't read anything from Liv Morris, based on your review and some of the crazy things going on with the characters, I don't think I read anything from her soon.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter also enjoys watching The Great British Baking Show. One day I was in her room when she had it on and I stayed for three episodes.