Review: Not Another Wall Street Wannabe
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
***Received from author for an honest review***~~~"I just don't want you to fall for the wrong guy," Cooper says."The wrong guy would be a Wall Street wannabe who's obsessed with talking about his BMW, his Ivy League education and how he's going to make his first million before he's thirty." (Loc 547, Kindle)~~~This scene stuck with me the entire time I read this book. The more I read, the more I realized how Cooper wasn't this man. He was an Ivy League graduate and he was aiming to make his first million by the time he was thirty and he did drive a BMW, but I couldn't reconcile the man I read about with Riley's typical bad date description.All in all, Cooper was a great man to read about. While he lied by omission to Riley, he didn't hide anything else from her. He introduced her to his three brothers, shared his past with her, and took her to his family's farm. Should he have told her? Absolutely. Would she have given him the time of day if he had? Probably not. Would she have gotten to know the man behind the suit? No.Riley's reaction to finding out the truth was warranted, and I like that she eventually gave Cooper the chance to explain. The time between that confrontation to acceptance was nail-biting. Given Riley's strong opinion against the kind of guy she didn't want to date, I really thought she'd call it quits between them.I breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't because they are good together and for each other.This is a beautifully written story about looking past the facade to the person behind it. I think Riley said it best:~~~I'm not sure I would have given him the same chance if I'd have known. Maybe in some weird way, what he did was right because it actually brought us together. (Loc 2586, Kindle)~~~