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lisaluvsliterature 's review for:
Neutral Grounds
by Jiffy Kate
4.5 stars!
This third book in the series was a good book to finish it all up. While there are a few other characters that I could see getting stories, we have now pretty much used up all the characters who are owners of the different locations we’ve visited in the French Quarter as part of this series, the Blue Bayou hotel, the Come Again bar, and in this one the Neutral Grounds coffee shop. Yes there are some other locations that featured regularly in the series, but they are not located quite in the French Quarter, so they would not be part of this.
Anyway, once again I was transported into the city I have come to love after visiting three times within three years, New Orleans. It’s been too long since I’ve been though, and now I really want to go back! This fake marriage story was perfect, and it actually had quite a few original aspects to it mixed in with the ones that are standard. First was the fact that his parents wouldn’t be upset if he had a fake marriage, because they just wanted him to get the money from his grandfather’s will. However they did want him to marry a woman of their choice, to make a marriage that combined families in order to make them have more and become a wealthier, more powerful family.
Now CeCe bugged me a little with really taking the whole independent woman thing too far in my opinion. I mean it only makes sense to let his lawyer that would be well-versed in real estate laws and cases like she had to deal with when her ownership of the coffee shop building was challenged. And then, damn, let him take you shopping for a dress to meet with him parents and their society friends! I mean, come on!
Other than that the romance mostly flowed in a realistic way, not too much insta-love. I was upset that he let her talk him into almost giving up. But how it all worked out in the end was perfect again, I like the way things got resolved between the two. There was one bit towards the end that made me wonder if the story was going to go a different way, but I was glad to see that it didn’t deter down that other trope path.
As I said, a great finish to this series!
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
This third book in the series was a good book to finish it all up. While there are a few other characters that I could see getting stories, we have now pretty much used up all the characters who are owners of the different locations we’ve visited in the French Quarter as part of this series, the Blue Bayou hotel, the Come Again bar, and in this one the Neutral Grounds coffee shop. Yes there are some other locations that featured regularly in the series, but they are not located quite in the French Quarter, so they would not be part of this.
Anyway, once again I was transported into the city I have come to love after visiting three times within three years, New Orleans. It’s been too long since I’ve been though, and now I really want to go back! This fake marriage story was perfect, and it actually had quite a few original aspects to it mixed in with the ones that are standard. First was the fact that his parents wouldn’t be upset if he had a fake marriage, because they just wanted him to get the money from his grandfather’s will. However they did want him to marry a woman of their choice, to make a marriage that combined families in order to make them have more and become a wealthier, more powerful family.
Now CeCe bugged me a little with really taking the whole independent woman thing too far in my opinion. I mean it only makes sense to let his lawyer that would be well-versed in real estate laws and cases like she had to deal with when her ownership of the coffee shop building was challenged. And then, damn, let him take you shopping for a dress to meet with him parents and their society friends! I mean, come on!
Other than that the romance mostly flowed in a realistic way, not too much insta-love. I was upset that he let her talk him into almost giving up. But how it all worked out in the end was perfect again, I like the way things got resolved between the two. There was one bit towards the end that made me wonder if the story was going to go a different way, but I was glad to see that it didn’t deter down that other trope path.
As I said, a great finish to this series!
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.