Book Review - Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne

 The Amazon Purchase link below is an Amazon Affiliate link.

Amazon UK

Title:  Made in Manhattan

Author: Lauren Layne

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Headline Eternal

Publication Date: 18th January 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

Sometimes the best things come from unexpected places . . .

Raised in the privileged world of Upper East Side Manhattan, Violet Townsend always says the right things, wears the right clothes, and never rocks the boat. So when a friend of her beloved grandmother asks Violet to teach her newly discovered grandson how to fit in with the city's elite, Violet immediately agrees. Her task? To prepare Cain Stone to take his place as heir to his family company . . . but he's not exactly an eager student.

Born and raised in rural Louisiana, Cain is only playing along for the payout at the end. He's not interested in a relationship with the grandmother he just met and has no patience for the uppity Violet's attempts to turn him into a suit-wearing, museum-attending gentleman.

But somewhere between antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, Cain and Violet begin to find a begrudging respect for each other - and perhaps even something more.

............................................................................................

Lauren Layne is fast becoming a much loved author for me. 

I devoured this latest book over a few hours and when I did take a short break from it Cain and Violet were on my mind. 

It's a modern day Pygmalion story,  but with a difference and with fat more of a message to it.

In fact the transformation of one of the characters is truly wonderful and completely unexpected from your first impressions of them.

I do love a great light hearted romance novel and this was exactly what it was, and what I needed to read as I read it. I loved it a lot. 

Thank you Headline Eternal and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.