My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

Looking at him was like catching sight of lightning striking an electrical grid. All sparks.

Her nameplate was actually covered in masking tape, and upon that was written Mynette Chen— Administrative Assistant/ Professional Badass.

I really didn’t think it was possible to be as dumb as you look, but here you are, proving it every time we speak.

If I ever felt real, I don’t even think I’d recognize myself.

Men are like ice cream. Nice to have, but not necessary for your overall health and happiness.

Man, I have to edit all of your work and you’ve been sending me more spelling errors than a kindergartener trying to write Faust.

What a fantastically small thing—to be seen, really seen, by someone, and not have that person run screaming in the other direction. But, like most small and beautiful things in this world, it was so rare.

 My Review:

This was a sweet hybrid of enemies to lovers/small-town/contemporary romance/women’s fiction tale that was chaste enough for my elderly mother’s book club and still kept me entertained. I was expecting the primary focus to be placed the last Anderson sister but was surprised to see her placed in a secondary role. The main characters were at odds and distrustful of each other and wielded sharp banter and took witty and snarky bites at each other most of the way through. Although, they began to see a different side of each other after they called a truce and struck a deal to collaborate on a personal project, with humorous and amorous results that both were resisting. George was using Annie to get information for a story, and being a journalist, he did not welcome or want to acknowledge any “inconvenient feelings,” snort.

The writing was easy to follow, well balanced between emotive and amusing, and teased and prodded my curiosity to learn the buried secrets and private shame that was plaguing Annie.   I wasn’t on the bus for team George until the last few chapters, but he finally managed to win me over once he pulled his head from his nether regions, sometimes men deserve a little foot action to assist with the dislodging and I would have eagerly volunteered 😉 I admired and coveted Mynette Chen’s clever nameplate and am busy making plans to create a similar one for myself.