Review: The Humor Saves This Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
** 3 1/2 Stars **Josh Faraday is a reporter that hides behind a faceless character, JR, in a popular newspaper column.  Upset that Tess Banyon has reached critical acclaim and high popularity, including her own television show, yet he can't get producers to launch his, Josh decides that Tess can't possibly be the perfect homemaking diva she portrays.  He figures out a way to infiltrate her domain in order to get the dirty laundry he needs to expose the domestic diva for who he thinks she really is.....a fraud.I was honestly almost turned off by the beginning of the book.  Josh came down so hard on Tess Banyon's image and success, it showed a really ugly side of him right from the start.  Jealousy, petty remarks, and bitterness are not becoming, especially in the context of this novel.  I know it was the set up for the rest of the novel but it really showed what I thought was a weak side to Josh's character.Once the novel got rolling and Josh is introduced to Tess the story improved and I started to enjoy it more.  A lot of humor was tossed into the mix and there was definitely some well written chemistry between Tess and Josh.  As the story evolved, the agenda that Josh has at first slowly changes and we get a glimpse of his change of heart, even as he discovers things about Tess that he correctly assumed.  But his assumptions aren't cut-and-dried; they are complicated and deserved a much better explanation than a trashing that he first wanted to publish.Then, when Tess realizes that Josh and the trash-talking JR are one and the same, the feelings she has developed for Josh disintegrate, causing her to remove him from her life.  His true motives are revealed also, as, what was supposed to be a first draft article is published without his consent or editing.  This novel does have the Happily Ever After we come to expect from an Entangled author, however I'm not really sure that Josh deserved it.Review Copy Courtesy of the Publisher at no cost, in exchange for an honest review.