It’s tempting to ignore your heart . . . Boutique owner Jayne Grandberry may be great at getting customers to treat themselves, but she’s even better at resisting her own desires. For her, love is like a sinfully rich dessert—a fleeting pleasure that will just make her crash in the long run. She has no time for such distractions, especially since she’s trying to open up a second shop in … a second shop in Atlanta. But she finds herself tempted like never before when her friends set her up with Stacy Cunningham.
A financial wizard, Stacy gives off a definite nerdy vibe, but he has skills that a businesswoman like Jayne can appreciate—and an indulgent one-night stand shows her a wildly different side of him. There’s nowhere for them to go from there, since Stacy, a single father, has complicated written all over him. But he’s not willing to settle for second best. And he’ll have to wait for Jayne to discover what he’s known all along: that when you open your heart to love, there will be room in your life for anything . . .
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I loved Jayne and Stacy’s story. Their chemistry was off the charts even when they were initially at odds. I enjoyed watching them grow closer and build a family together even if Jayne didn’t realize it was happening. A story full of friends, family, changing dreams, and love. Can’t wait for more from the series!
This is the third book in a series, however, I read it as stand alone, since I have not yet read the earlier books. This would explain why all the peripheral characters were not physically described and it took me a while to figure out who was who and what their relationships were. Jayne and her mother were abandoned by her father, in England, but her mother met a wonderful American man and they moved with her cousin, Pippin to Dayton Beach Florida, where they opened a pub. Because of that experience and influenced by her mother, Jayne has no time or belief in relationships. She is too busy building her boutique and helping out at the pub. But she does have a delightful group of friends, who try to fix her up. One of the men actually moves across the street from her with his daughter and share a mutual attraction, but Jayne is too scare to see it through. Watch Jayne learn through the ups and down of her life, what is really important in life.
I received this book as a ARC from the author for an honest review. I enjoyed the read and intend to go back and read the previous two books.
Possibly Unique Technique. This book had something not often seen in trilogies – a blending of the timeline from the first book into the third book. In The Girl He Knows, Rose has a particular scene where a new man is introduced and the lead in that book outright says to herself that this man isn’t for her – but would be perfect for her friend. So she calls her friend and demands the friend come out to where she is currently on a double date with this new man and common friends across all of the people involved here. This book actually starts up just before that moment, and the first roughly third of the book actually takes place concurrent with events from the back roughly third of The Girl He Knows, before progressing. This book’s weakness is that it spends so much time in the setup that it doesn’t really have a chance to actually show the love developing, rather than simply stating that the couple did various things together over a couple of paragraphs. But it is overall a strong book, just with the one major weakness.
Opposites Attract 3.5*
This is as much a book about friendships and family as it is about romance. The group of girls in this story are all very supportive of each other and rather vocal about who they think are their friends love-match. I liked that Stacy was someone completely different to what Jayne had on her “dream man” list and I thought his gifted daughter Cordie was adorable. I would have preferred more emotion as I didn’t really feel that they were romantically involved (only the lust element came through). This is book 3 in a series and whilst it can be read as a standalone I believe the reader would enjoy it better having read the previous books.
I voluntarily read and reviewed a copy of this book gifted by the author. All thoughts and opinions are my own.