_{^{Thank you to @ Xpresso Book Tours for providing me with this ARC, all thoughts and opinions are my own.}}

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• Pages: 296
• Genre: Romance, Contemporary
• Publication date: March 3, 2025 by Prosaic Publishing
• Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audible

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PURCHASE LINKS:
AMAZON
BARNES & NOBLE

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I really wanted to love this one and from the first few sentences, I thought I really would and this would be finally my 5-star book of the year…

…. yeah, I stand corrected on this one…

THE REVIEW:

Right, I’m probably in the minority here, and here comes my unpopular opinion.

This is the story of a girl (Sarah) who meets a boy (Case) in a bar. They hit it off, and lo and behold, they wake up in the same bed the morning after! But wait! It doesn’t end here, no. It turns out they both know who the other person is, just didn’t realise (at least one of them!) at first, but they decide not to reveal this fact to each other. Oh, the plot thickens, with a promise of drama, a lot of drama actually, impossible choices and great, great sex (apparently!).

Sarah is an investigative journalist and is writing a scoop about Prakash, who is the owner of a big yoga company. Case happens to be the owner of a few franchises of Prakash’s studios. So our FMC joins one of those yoga places to snoop around and get the story out, but there is a catch, feelings get involved, people step out with new allegations against Prakash, and the scoop becomes bigger than what she bargained for in the first place… And Case, well, he has his own demons to fight, too (except when he’s not naked, and with Sarah that is…).

Now that this quick recap is out of the way, I really, really liked the beginning of this book. I found Sarah’s character funny and witty, and the banter Case and her had was great. I was really looking forward to more of it throughout the book. I also like Jared and her twin friends and the dog and the little kitten _{^{(that got mentioned only a handful of times, as well as her friends, really…)}}

Their characters were well crafted, and I enjoyed how distinct each one of them was. The writing was approachable and easy to follow, but at times, it felt disjointed and turned into rambling.

The premise was interesting, and it has great potential, but we have pretty much chapters, not pages or paragraphs, but entire chapters of explicit sex scenes that at first I was totally fine with, but the more I read and the further it went, there was nothing else but sex and how “Slot B” wants “Tab A” and how exceptional and amazing it was… I mean, ok, we get it Case is some sex God or something, but the poor plot went out the window and plummeted onto the ground with a loud thud and shattered all over the place… well, this, for me, was a letdown. The whole investigative bit was left out with injections here and there of what is going on beyond the bedsheet covers and the slots and tabs…

I really, really hate it when there is always a misunderstanding thrown in the plot that could easily be solved by just, guess what??? TALKING! Talking to each other and giving a chance to clear the air out by not assuming and not interrupting and for once listening instead of getting angry and walking off because you are told something you don’t like…  I see this trope way too often in romance books, the way the characters are portrayed feels like this every single time I swear it’s like Deja Vu:

It’s just so overdone and overused, would it hurt to make them act like grown-ups for a change?!

Overall, I gave this book 3 stars due to the reasons mentioned above. It could have been great had there been less sex more plot and character development.

I still think it is an OK book and that the author has a great sense of humour I just wanted to see it used in a more clever/witty way, like in the beginning of the book.

Have you read this book and would like to read it?