Author: Camilla Isley
Narrator: Audra Cook
Publisher: Kobo Writing Life
Publication Date: July 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Buy the Book: Amazon | BN | Audible
Description: Twenty-nine-year-old Blair Walker is a girl with a plan, or more a girl with a list. A list of dos and don'ts to live the perfect life, land a dream career, and marry Mr. Right.
When Blair loses her job and gets dumped by her boyfriend all in one day, she starts to wonder if she's had it all wrong. And what better way to find out than experience everything the list forbade?
Never Lie
Never Pick a Fight
Never Make a Scene
Never Make the First Move
Never Make Impulse Decisions
Never Mix Business and Pleasure...
With hilarious consequences, Blair will discover some items are trickier to tick off than she'd thought...
My Thoughts: This book has everything I expect in the romance genre and had me laughing out loud and cheering for these two characters. In addition, I’m a big softie for stories where dogs and cats have a prominent role and this story offers that too. I thought Blair was an amazing character, fearless in some ways and vulnerable in others. She isn’t afraid to speak her mind but she has lived her life to a plan and never deviated. Denied her promotion and losing her job, she refuses to feel sorry for herself. When her creep boyfriend breaks up with her on the same day, she doesn’t show weakness there either. The restaurant scene with the spaghetti was priceless!
I liked Richard too. I don’t recommend pursuing a relationship with your boss, but the dynamic between Blair and Richard was quite unique in that they met under unusual circumstances before he becomes her boss. He has a lot of failed relationship trauma and doesn’t appear to want to go down that road again but the reader is given an insider’s view into his big old sappy heart when a stray dog enters the picture.
I love this author’s writing. The stories are witty and entertaining with characters that are easy to like and relate to. I paired the reading of this book with the audiobook and really enjoyed Audra Cook’s narration. This book is wonderful in any format.
My Final Verdict: Overall, this book will appeal to readers who enjoy the romance genre as well as stories that will make you laugh and feature feisty dogs who wiggle their way into the front row of the story.
Thank you to the publisher, Kobo Writing Life, who provided an advance reader copy of this book via NetGalley.
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