Review: He said/She said
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
Love the One You're With (Sex, Love & Stiletto Series, Bk 2)By Lauren Layne, Publication Date: Dec 9, 2013I really enjoyed book 1 of this series and I was looking forward to Grace's story but it somehow got lost in my TBR and my review-time swallowed by Christmas.Grace used to write the Love articles for Stiletto magazine, until she discovered that her long-time love and fiancee was cheating on her and had been for a while.  Grace took some time off from work to recover from her heartbreak and is finally ready to come back to work, except she now has great big chip on her shoulder against the whole male gender and is realizing that her spot in the Stiletto triumvirate is not as secured as she thought.  Not interested in ever again getting played and trying to regain her boss’s trust, Grace lets manipulate her into taking on cross-magazine dating challenge.  Jake Malone is a reporter for the Oxford, Stiletto’s male-focused rival.  While his true love is travel reporting, he became New York based journeyman reporter without really intending to.  With the Oxford under new management, Jake makes his move, and asks to for the travel beat, but his editor wants him do him a favor first, take on the women of Stiletto and show the world that the Oxford men understand women more than the Stiletto women understand men.Jake and Grace are to go out on a series of dates, and write rival he-said/she-said accounts of their dates,  to see who is better at reading the opposite sex.  Their dates become closely monitored affairs with hidden cameras and recording devices, after their initial stories go viral and the managing editors try to out-play each other.  What gets lost in this magazine grudge match is that Jake and Grace do get each other and actually really quite like each other.I really liked that both Jake and Grace are trying to re-discover parts of themselves they have neglected and carve out a relationship under the microscope.4 out of 5 starsSource: NetGalley, review copy provided by Random House Publishing Group -- Loveswept