Review: Fan-freaking-tastic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 15, 2013
So, I am giving this 5 stars because there aren't half or quarter stars, but the real rating is 4.75, I just rounded up because it was more of a 5 star read than a 4 star read (see reason below).When I finished Undressed, the first book in the Manhattanites series I was really excited to read Taddy's story. She was very briefly in Undressed, but I knew immediately that I was going to love her. She reminded me a lot of myself and I couldn't wait to see if there were any other similarities. I was also told by Avery Aster that I was going to love Warner Truman, the Hero of Unscrupulous. Now that I'm done with the book I realize that A) Avery was absolutely right, Warner is freaking amazing and B) reading about Taddy Brill was like reading about myself and it was a tad bit freaky.Taddy is bold, determined, scared of feeling and an independent woman. She's been on her own for so long, with just her friends as her family, that she doesn't know how to let people in. Warner Truman is rich, hot, successful and also very determined. Once married, but now a widower, he's eager to find love again and before Taddy was looking in all the wrong places. Together, they are smoking hot, both when they first meet and again when they find each other five months later. Warner is one of the sweetness, most amazing fictional men ever; there was no question that he had to be put onto my book boyfriend list. He is exactly the alpha male that could match my alpha female (just like he did for Taddy).Just like in Undresssed, the secondary characters are a ton of fun and highly entertaining. Vive cracks me up and I look forward to reading her story. I also liked Sheldon, Warner's brother. I'd love to know more about him at some point. Lex and Blake were great as well and I have a feeling that we will be learning some interesting news about Lex and Taddy somewhere down the road given Taddy's family drama. With those characters aside, I think my favorite secondary character was Kiki, Taddy's assistant. Her wide-eyed, virginal ways were so hilarious and awkward. The conversations that Taddy had with Kiki reminded me a lot of the conversations that I have with some of my less experienced friends. I hope we see much more of Kiki in the future.I really did love this book. I would have given it a full 5 stars, but I was a tad disappointed that Taddy and Warner weren't together for more of the book. Although I liked getting to see them each in their own worlds and I liked that there was a little bit of a slow burn getting them together, but I wanted more hotness and absolute sweetness that I got when the two of them were finally together. I know we are getting Vive and Blake in the next two books, but I'm kinda hoping that Avery will give us more Taddy and Warner...perhaps in the form of a novella or something. I just want to see more of them together.Arc provided via Netgalley