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All of the fun, none of the heartache…as long as they stick to the agreement. The proposition is simple: if ER nurse Claire Harper and her roommate, firefighter Graham Scott, are still single by the time they’re forty, they’ll take the proverbial plunge together…as friends with benefits. Maybe it’s the wine, but in the moment, Claire figures the pact is a safe-enough deal, considering she hasn’t had much luck in love and he’s in no rush to settle down. Like, at all. Besides, there’s no way she could ever really fall for Graham and his thrill-seeking ways. Not after what happened to her father… Just as things begin to heat up way before the proposed deadline, Graham’s injured in a serious rock-climbing accident—and he needs Claire’s help to heal. She’ll do whatever it takes to nurse him back to health…even if it means moving into Graham’s bed and putting up with his little dog who hates her. But with this no-strings arrangement taking a complicated turn, keeping “for now” from turning into “forever” isn’t as easy as they’d planned.
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0 0Thank you so much to MIRA and Edelweiss+ for providing an advanced copy of this. All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
I was highly anticipating this romance but unfortunately it fell a little flat for me.
I loved the concept and setup for this romance. I LOVE a friends to lovers, forced proximity romance. And add in care taking and I'm HOOKED.
But while this had all the tropes and making of an all time favorite, it just never hooked or convinced me of their romance.
Our hero is an adrenaline junky who loves adventure and pushing himself. Our heroine is an outspoken nurse who desperately wants to find her person without sacrificing her demanding career.
But while their connection and chemistry is strong, there are traumas from their past keeping each other at arms length.
Like I said, this setup was fantastic. I loved the care taking aspect, I loved their banter, I loved how driven and self assured they were. I also really loved the email/journal aspect when the hero wrote letters to the heroine's old email.
But while we were constantly told about their connection and chemistry, I never felt it.
And I think a huge portion of that was due to the fact that this was fade to black.
Look, I'm totally cool with a fade to black romance. I prefer knowing going in, but it won't stop me from loving a book.
However, in this case, it did.
Because the physical relationship between them was a huge aspect of their romantic connection. And we didn't get to see it.
The characters were constantly talking about how amazing their sex was. How connected they felt. How it was magical and more than they ever experienced. How it was a way to for them to share their feelings when they couldn't say them out loud.
But we missed all of it. And were instead just told that it was true. Which left me feeling... nothing.
In the end this just feels aggressively average. And like a book I will quickly forget about.
As a character driven reader, I really need to feel a connection to the characters, and this lacked that for me.
But if you're looking for a low steam, friends to lovers romance, with lots of banter and alpha hero, this might work for you! It's definitely an author I think a lot of romance readers will adore. She's just not the author for me.
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