Dirty Stranger (The Dirty Suburbs #3)
Cassie-Ann L. Miller
Isla I'm paying alimony to my idiot ex-husband, my business hardly makes enough to keep the lights on and I'm literally holding my car together with duct tape. Scratch that, I'm holding my life together with duct tape. So I won't go on a date with the mysterious, new-in-town barista who makes my morning soy hazelnut lattee just the way I like it...He'd better stop trying to hypnotize me with those honey eyes and those bulging shoulders that stretch the jersey of his coffee shop uniform, because I have enough on my plate and the last thing I need is yet another liability. Reuben The cinnamon-haired yoga chick who orders the soy hazelnut lattee every morning won't give me a shot. She thinks I'm just some college boy with student loans trying to get in her pants. Well, she's right about one thing. From the moment she first sauntered into this coffee shop with her long legs and her sad eyes, I've wanted to toss her onto the polished wooden counter and show her just how much of a man I am. There's so much more to me than meets the eye. I'm just trying to make her fall for me before my secrets make it to town. "Dirty Stranger" is book three in the "Dirty Suburbs", a series of full-length, stand-alone romantic comedies about the residents of small town Illinois.
Publication Year: 2017
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Oh Isla. Dear, stubborn Isla. I’m wanted to like you but you blew it at the end. For a woman everyone lauded as so selfless, she certainly had nothing to give Reuben, who gave her everything.
OK, so when this whole thing starts, Isla and Ruben see each other and are immediately attracted to each other. Only she assumes he’s a broke college student. And since she’s struggling herself, having to pay alimony to her worthless ex-husband, she feels she doesn’t have time for Reuben. But Reuben proves to be persistent and finally makes his way into her bed. And then into her heart. And then into her business when she finds out that he’s actually a billionaire investor. She finally begins to relax and believe they could have something special. But then she gets a surprise that puts all of that at risk. And she decides she can’t trust him after all.
This is where Isla loses me. The “surprise” throws her for a loop. And she immediately believes the worst about Reuben. Meanwhile, Reuben is off dealing with a dire family emergency and Isla can’t even be bothered to take a phone call to let him explain himself or even to tell her that he is at a family member’s death bed. So not only does he have to deal with that terrible situation all by himself without the woman he loves, he has to worry about how he’s going to explain the misunderstanding to her. And even when he does, he still has to grovel and prove to her that she can trust him. Like I said before. Too stubborn. We didn’t even get a scene where Isla at least felt bad that she made the poor man go through his family tragedy all alone.
And her friends weren’t much better. They didn’t even encourage her to talk to the man and get his side of the story. They were just ready for her to move on. I’m really trying to like this series. But it gets so predictable with the unnecessary and overblown drama that shows up 74% into the book and resolves itself by the man turning himself inside out to fix things when half the time the problem is the woman simply being super stubborn and unwilling to just listen. Nevertheless, these couples do get their happily ever after. But sometimes it’s not quite as satisfying as you would think it would be.
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