This book was cute and steamy! It moved at a really good pace compared to the books I read right before it, so I liked that right away. The characters were great, even if I did get a bit annoyed with both of them for certain little things they did, that I won’t mention because I know those are typical things that happen in romance books to create the drama.

As I said, I did really think the characters, particularly our hero and heroine, were really well written. They had different issues and background stories that were unique and definitely made their actions make sense. Strangely, to me, Riddick didn’t like bathrooms attached to a bedroom, his reasoning, kinda made sense, but also didn’t. But I liked that he had such a unique quirk/opinion.

Brandi was a little bit of a feisty, hot-tempered woman. Quick to want to fight her cousin, or others who might have deserved it. However at times she maybe went a little overboard and that is why she had some of the issues that contributed to moving the story along. But she also loved hard, had standards, and for the most part was pretty confident about herself. Yeah, her ex had done a number on her and caused some insecurities, but Riddick was able to help her figure out how wrong that ex had been.

The bedroom scenes, well not all were in the bedroom, but all were steamy! There were several of them, so be prepared for that to be a big part of the story. Not that I’m complaining! lol

One other thing I thought was weird and that bugged me was how Riddick called the other guys in his fraternity frats. And she called the women in her sorority sorors. Now, I was in a sorority in college, and hung out with people in fraternities. And we called our fellow members sisters and brothers respectively. However, since the Greek organizations in this book were more black students, I wonder if that is the difference? Also, I know it was an advanced copy, but hopefully there was a bit of editing because there were tons of commas in weird awkward places. And finally, I feel like maybe I’d like to have had a little bit more wine in the story than it seemed to be, it was almost like it was thrown in at certain points, normal meals, parties, etc., but not made a major part of the story as the title would imply.

I am looking forward though to getting to know the members of the Meet Cute Book Club better throughout the rest of the books in the series though! This is also my first book by this author, but I would definitely be interested in reading more by her in the future!


Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.