Review: One Night in the Spa
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2013
I'm always a sucker for a friends-to-lovers story which is why One Night in the Spa initially appealed to me. Once I started reading and realized that the heroine, Kim, is 24 years old, it took everything in me not to immediately stop reading. As I've expressed many times on this blog, I'm pretty much over reading about 20 somethings in adult contemporary romance. Since this is a novella, I figured I'd put aside my annoyance about the age and give it a chance.I'm going to start off by saying that this novella is ridiculous. And that is my honest opinion. Kim has been most of her life training and competing as a professional racquetball player. An injury sidelines her career and she ends up working as a manager of a gym while her injury heals. David is the manager at the spa next door and has been Kim's BFF for the last 3 years. He wants to be more than friends but of course, Kim doesn't realize that. Now that Kim is no longer pushing her body through vigorous workouts and focusing solely on her sport, her hormones have started waking up. Kim is starting to notice men's bodies and lusting after them. Instead of realizing that now that this is due to her change in routine, she thinks she's a sexual deviant. And this is where I almost DNFd the novella.Kim is not a sexual innocent. She has participated in oral sex before. The fact that she thinks she's a freak and has a medical problem because she's HORNY was ridiculous. The story continued to go down hill from there. David decides to seduce Kim with a facial and a massage. When he discovers a scar on her back and the story behind it (cause every heroine has to have a tragedy from her past) he starts talking to the scar and kissing it. I was really trying to decide if this book for real. There's more that happens that made me say "Come on!" several more times but I won't spoil it for you.Needless to say, I rolled my eyes so much during the 74 pages I gave myself a migraine. I love a friends-to-lovers stories but this one hit all my no-no spots for romance. The plot was so ridiculous that I could not take it seriously. Or care enough for Kim and David to become a  couple. Oh and the supposed corporate espionage side plot? Could have been left out. There were about 5 pages dedicated to that plot point and I could have cared less. I only kept reading it because it was a novella and I was entertained by how much I didn't like it. Talking to a scar? Really? Being seduced by a facial massage?  Um okay. Needless to say, this novella was not for me.