Only with You, Lauren Layne.

 

Only with You, Lauren Layne.
Review from jeannie zelos book reviews
This sounded a fun read, and it was to a degree. I loved Sophie, felt for her with her family expecting her to live up to her perfect older sister. But we’re all different and poor Sophie – that critisism led to a sucession of different career starts and jobs, further backing her families views. It’s become a self fulfilling prophecy, and Sophie thinks she’s really reached the bottom when mistaken for a prostitute on the way to a Batchelorette fancy dress party – the brief was trashy/tacky and then poor Sophie gets stuck in a lift with Mr Uptight, Grayson Wyatt, who makes the prostitute comment.
Then by a series of circumstances she becomes Gray’s new assistant. Somehow her chirpy, happy personality wears away at his dour outlook, though on the surface they are both still very antagonisistic to each other. Constant sniping becomes the order of the day, and later it’s intermixed with scorching makeout sessions…that quickly get labelled as A Mistake…never to be repeated – until the next time…
Sophie I loved, Gray, well I knew he had his reasons but TBH at times I wondered just why she bothered, he was so rude and ungrateful for such a spurious reason. Still, slowly he won me over along with Sophie.I loved the corporate fun day/party she arranged. There’s some neat snippets about her best friend Will, and his nemesis, her sister Brynn. They’re the subject of the next book.
I loved the humour, loved Sophie, loved the Will/Brynn interludes but Gray – well I know he needed to be opposite to Sophie but his personality was so dire, so dull, that he brought the book down a bit for me.
Stars: three and a half, a good book, humourous and a HEA, but not one I’d re read, and I did get a bit bored by Gray’s brusqueness and Sophie’s attempts to cheer him sometimes. Just moments when it felt a bit OTT.
ARC supplied via Netgalley.