I have pretty mixed views about this book. Some parts of it, such as the humour, I found brilliant but then other areas just didn’t work.

Firstly, this is a marriage-of-convenience book so the heroine, Emmabelle (Belle), spends the majority of the story pregnant. This was a nice change because we don’t tend to have a lot of these kind of stories. It was also really funny to see Belle experiencing all the different emotions that go along with pregnancy.

Belle was a badass. She was sassy, fierce but also vulnerable. She had the best one liners and didn’t take shit from no one.

The romance in this book didn’t work for me. I don’t really get Belle and Devon as a couple. We didn’t get to see their first hookup as it happened off page years previously. It was a shame because we didn’t get to see their initial chemistry and how it progressed. I would’ve loved to have seen a flashback of that moment because I always think that their first times are one of the most important moments in a romance novel.

The spice was very mild, which was disappointing because her other books have great smut. The scenes might as well have faded into black because they were very rushed and didn’t really offer anything.

I love reading books where a character is from England. I find it so funny seeing the words and phrases the author writes for that character. I promise we never actually speak like that!

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