Author: Anna Kaling
Format reviewed: Paperback
Source: Publisher supplied copy
Publisher: Headline Eternal
Publication Date: 4th February 2020
Rating: 5 Stars
Love doesn't always follow the rules...
Ally Rivers has three jobs, a disastrous dating record, and her gran won't stop talking about sex with eighty-year-old Melvin. Now her best friend Sam confesses his whole family think they're engaged. The longest relationship she's ever been in is fabricated, and her intended is gay.
Playing Sam's besotted lover at a family party, Ally discovers the hot gardener she's been flirting with is Sam's dad, Marcus. She even sucks at fake relationships. But Marcus is on to them and embroils Ally in another scheme - encouraging Sam to come out.
Scheming is not Ally's forte and, worse, she and Marcus are falling for each other. After years in an unhappy marriage, he's not letting Ally go without a fight, but she's torn between the best friend she'll ever have and the only man she's ever been in love with. Either choice will leave two broken hearts, and Gran will still have a more successful love life than her...
Ally Rivers has three jobs, a disastrous dating record, and her gran won't stop talking about sex with eighty-year-old Melvin. Now her best friend Sam confesses his whole family think they're engaged. The longest relationship she's ever been in is fabricated, and her intended is gay.
Playing Sam's besotted lover at a family party, Ally discovers the hot gardener she's been flirting with is Sam's dad, Marcus. She even sucks at fake relationships. But Marcus is on to them and embroils Ally in another scheme - encouraging Sam to come out.
Scheming is not Ally's forte and, worse, she and Marcus are falling for each other. After years in an unhappy marriage, he's not letting Ally go without a fight, but she's torn between the best friend she'll ever have and the only man she's ever been in love with. Either choice will leave two broken hearts, and Gran will still have a more successful love life than her...
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall, inside Anna Kaling's brain when she came up with this most convoluted, original and brilliant of story lines.
I don't think I've ever read a book where there the situation between the various characters becomes that confusing, and when the big secrets are finally revealed in spectacular fashion to loved ones, well Ally's head wasn't the only one unsure who to believe about what. I won't say more on that but the book builds to a fabulous crescendo.
Before that we have Ally, who initially came across as the sort of character that really bugs me in books, until we get to know her more at which point I really started to like her and feel sorry for herself.
There is Sam, her best friend, who's gay, but not out of the closet with family, who has been pretending to his parents that has in a 3 year strong relationship with Ally.
But when Ally meet's Marcus, Sam's dad for the first time, there is clearly lust although she has know idea who he is instantly, and yet there is a pull between Marcus and Ally, and that is where thins start go get messy.
Well messy, full of sexual tension, morally dubious decisions, and all manner of great scenes, this is a great book. I loved the chemistry between Ally and Marcus, and this is an author that knows her way around a hot sex scene.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and it really is a story that shows you just can't help who you fall in love with, no matter how "wrong" or inconvenient it may seem!!
Thank you to Emily Patience at Headline Eternal for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
I don't think I've ever read a book where there the situation between the various characters becomes that confusing, and when the big secrets are finally revealed in spectacular fashion to loved ones, well Ally's head wasn't the only one unsure who to believe about what. I won't say more on that but the book builds to a fabulous crescendo.
Before that we have Ally, who initially came across as the sort of character that really bugs me in books, until we get to know her more at which point I really started to like her and feel sorry for herself.
There is Sam, her best friend, who's gay, but not out of the closet with family, who has been pretending to his parents that has in a 3 year strong relationship with Ally.
But when Ally meet's Marcus, Sam's dad for the first time, there is clearly lust although she has know idea who he is instantly, and yet there is a pull between Marcus and Ally, and that is where thins start go get messy.
Well messy, full of sexual tension, morally dubious decisions, and all manner of great scenes, this is a great book. I loved the chemistry between Ally and Marcus, and this is an author that knows her way around a hot sex scene.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and it really is a story that shows you just can't help who you fall in love with, no matter how "wrong" or inconvenient it may seem!!
Thank you to Emily Patience at Headline Eternal for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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