The Negotiator (Harbor City, #1)

The Negotiator (Harbor City, #1)

Avery Flynn

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Alternate cover edition of ASIN B06XW824TH Wanted: Personal Buffer Often snarly, workaholic executive seeks “buffer” from annoying outside distractions AKA people. Free spirits with personal boundary issues, excessive quirks, or general squeamishness need not apply. Salary negotiable. Confidentiality required. Workaholic billionaire Sawyer Carlyle may have joked he needed a buffer from their marriage-obsessed mom, but he didn’t need a waiting room filled with candidates to further distract him. (Thanks, bro.) But when a sexy job applicant shooes his mom and the socialite in tow out of his office, Sawyer sees the genius of the plan. And the woman. In fact, Miss Clover Lee might just get the fastest promotion in history, from buffer to fake fiancé...This free-spirit might look like hot sunshine and lickable rainbows, but she negotiates like a pitbull. Before Sawyer knows what hit him, he’s agreed to give up Friday nights for reality tv, his Saturdays for flea markets (why buy junk still baffles him), his Tuesdays and Thursdays for date nights (aka panty-losing opportunities if he plays his cards right). And now she wants lavender bath salts and tulips delivered every Monday? Yup, she’s just screwing with him. Good thing she’s got this non-negotiatable six-weeks-and-she’s-gone rule or Sawyer may have just met this match..


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    3.5 stars
    OVERALL: Cute classic fake dating/fake relationship story between billionaire workaholic and spunky adventurous woman. Was steamy and I like fake dating, but overall was somewhat forgettable for me.

    CW: brief alcohol binge, secondary character hospitalization, sexually explicit

    I liked this book while I was reading it!
    The characters were fun, I felt like Clover was more developed and strong than Sawyer, but both were great and we even got a decent sampling of side characters who will hopefully be in future books.
    The writing was good--there was decent banter and conversation was realistic and flirty. I especially appreciated the theme of the negotiations, which came up over and over and I thought it was used really well!
    Plot was pretty classic romance, no complaints nor really unique content there.

    My only problem was that this book was really forgettable to me. I kept forgetting it was on my kindle waiting for me, even while I was in the middle. And at the time of writing this review just two days later I'm struggling to remember what even happened--why did they have a fight/problem/bleak moment again?
    I definitely want to read more by Avery Flynn, though!

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