Review: A great romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2013
Mitchell and Julie. Sigh.  We have a plot with a lot in common with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Fashion Magazine Columnist  type out for a story and a guy with a competing bet that pushes too opposites together until they really fall in love and then what do they do?  The assignment is different as is a bet but the outcomes of romantic drama is the same and just as good.There is restistance, agnst, guilt, and a wonderful coming to terms.  Good stuff. And the sexy times are so well done that we really feel how Mitchell and Julie are really overwhelmed by the physical and emotion chemistry that propels them deep into relationship land.Because of the nature of Julie's job and that of her friends as sex, dating and relationship writer, the book also delivers some fun and philosophical exploration of love that give this love story a little something extra.At first, I don't like Julie. She is just not my kind of gal.  She is a high maintenance, girlie-girl, and this new trend in romance heroines--deliberately shallow. Shallowness as self protection is a reveting character device I have seen in a number of books lately. She has close friends but we don't have enough time with her with them in settings to show her in a more intimate relationship. I get the feeling even these relationships are not as close as they should be for her.  I grow to really like Julie as Mitchell does when she is her snarky non people pleasing self. When she is real. The move is hard to to pull and Lyons does it beautifully!  She grows and is vulnerable and we love her.Mitchell is uptight and constrained and planned.  It is always great to see these types all mussed up. Mitchell also becomes more real and more himself. He can be restrained but doesn't need to be constrained by what he thinks is the way to be. I love his cussing and alphaness. He is good at saying I am sorry as well.  He has yummy glasses too.There is a slight feel of the best parts of chick lit here but really we are all romance. Yea!Very good stuff!I can't wait for Grace's story.I am thrilled that Loveswept is bring it with the new books and taking advantage of e publishing to bring their wonderful authors to a wider romance audience.I highly recommend this book.I was given this book to read for my honest review. So, there you have it!