The Ex Files (Ocean View, #1)

The Ex Files (Ocean View, #1)

Morgan Elizabeth

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Cassandra Reynolds can see a red flag from a mile away. In fact, it’s her job. A favor for a friend in college who was afraid she’d been catfished soon turned into a full-blown business. Now, as the owner of The Ex Files, a matchmaking service based Ocean View, she dates men nearly every day of the week in order to vet them, assuring the matches she makes are perfectly informed and free of heartache. With her job comes pitfalls, though: every man she meets is hiding something, trying to impress, and not showing his true colors. It’s just not worth the emotional stress to even try anymore. But when she has to attend her father’s wedding, the man who once lived his own double life, she realizes after years of matchmaking, she has no date of her own to bring to the event. His sisters want him to have the happily-ever-after their parents do. When mechanic Luke Dawson helps a woman on the side of the road, he didn’t think it would be the matchmaker his sisters set him up with. But just one date is all it takes for him to decide that he’s not going for a match - he’s interested in the matchmaker herself. Now it’s his job to convince her to give him a shot without scaring her off. But try after try, he’s hitting obstacles in the form of the strict and uptight rules she’s crafted in order to protect herself. Can he get past her walls and make her see they’d be a perfect match if she let herself fall?


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    Mar 09, 2025
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    There was a lot about this book to enjoy. But there was also a lot that really rubbed me the wrong way. Most of it was really cute and sweet and fluffy. Cassie runs a matchmaking agency where she will find guys on the dating apps, go out with them with the goal of weeding out the red flags so that she can set them up with women looking for a good man. She herself does not believe in love because of her parents messed up marriage. But one guy she meets, who has signed up for the agency, decides that she is his. She agrees to date him for a set time, not realizing that he intends to keep her. And this is where things kind of go off the rails. Cassie is simply too damaged. She clearly is in need of some intensive therapy, which she does not get in this book. It’s not even mentioned as a possibility. And it’s honestly the only way she would’ve come to her senses about the situation with Luke. Her biggest fear was that Luke deserved better than her. And to be honest, he actually did. He was far too patient and understanding and far too willing to take blame for things he didn’t need to take the blame for. But, he loved her. So they do get their HEA. But I don’t trust it. I don’t trust her. She was actually one of the biggest red flags in this book. And I’m guessing it’s because it was a romcom and we wanted things to say pretty unserious. But she had serious problems that needed serious solutions that should not have been skimmed over.

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