This was a very quick read, not too deep, really just kind of a sweet story. It took a chapter or so to get into it, but I did enjoy it after that. It was fun to see the inside of a home remodeling show world, and have all the little pop culture references. I did like the two main characters, Carey and James. Their romance was sweet, and for the most part realistic. I liked the added issue that Carey had with her health, as well as the little secret she had that kind of blew up the whole company. I didn’t see that one coming. There were also transcripts of interviews with both James and Carey that started the book, as well as being interspersed between chapters in the books. Those interviews made me very intrigued to find out just what happened to lead to them having to do what seemed like police type interviews.

Unfortunately I was still a bit disappointed at some things. You see, the Beautiful Bastard series is where I first started with these authors, and their last few books have been way far away from what those were. Yes, they may be better written to some people, but I miss the sexiness of those. I miss some of the over the top humor, the true romance that those books were. Lately their books have been more contemporary fiction, women’s fiction might be a more precise term. And that isn’t really my type of story that I read. This one had enough of the romance element in it to keep me going, but the sex was so much of a fade away scene that I missed what first made me a big fan of Christina Lauren books.

So take my review as you will. I know some of my readers prefer the fade to black scenes for their romances, while others are like me and like the heat. It was good enough that I can recommend it to people looking for a quick, fun read, and good enough to keep me looking forward to future books by Christina Lauren.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.