Review: Good for a few minutes before bedtime
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
I received an ARC of Risky Business by Amy Andrews from Netgalley. I though it sounded like a cute story about a woman who takes a job in a book store. I mean who here wouldn’t love to work in a book store with a hot hunk?I started out liking Samantha, our heroine. She was hilarious. I mean the girl has a thing for pirate romance (it’s kind of an inside joke), but I loved her descriptions of the beefy pirates. The blind dates she continued to go on were even funnier, I didn’t think each one could get worse, but they somehow did. Little by little I noticed that Sam was a bit self-depreciating, then I found her to be really self-depreciating, then the story was pretty much ruined by her inability to see anything good about herself. And I never want to hear anyone talk about their damn eggs ever again, Sam was obsessed. Every sweet moment was tarnished by her constant belittling of herself. By the time I finished I was so tired of reading pages on pages of Sam hating on everything about her body. This story would have been a much higher rating for me, but her single character reduced it quite a bit.At 82% of the book Sam finally decides that Nick does like her. This is where I wanted to bash my  head into something hard  (too bad I only had pillows nearby). Nick spends the entire book being sweet and telling her he likes her and she just randomly at some various point now decides to believe him? But she has to go slow because she has “hang ups.” Seriously, who is this chick?Even though I found Nick to be sweet and cute I just couldn’t fall for his character because Sam wouldn’t let us. It was so frustrating because I generally liked him. Nick has some issues of his own, don’t get me wrong, but his pale in comparison to Sam. And when it comes down to it he can recognize the changes within himself and act on them. Why in so many romance novels are woman always shown as these people that have to be practically coerced into a relationship but the men are always the strong ones leading the way?This couple could have been amazing, but their constant denials through the entire story was disheartening. What could have been a cute fluffy funny rom-com turned into something frustrating and left me unfulfilled. This couple were classic relationship avoiders and as is my job to warn readers, it takes them 99% of the book before these two finally work that shit out.Risky Business was a funny read and there were quite a few parts I did enjoy while reading. Ultimately, I’m on the fence when it comes to Risky Business. If sounds like a good read to you then one-click it. If not, you aren’t missing the read of the century.