Live Through Books

Review of How to Lose a Fiancé by Stefanie London HOW TO LOSE A FIANCÉ Sophia doesn't want to be controlled by men any longer, so when the man who's controlled her her entire life, her father, tells her she's to marry a Greek billionaire, in order to benefit her father, rather than herself, she's furious. So she determines she's going to do everything she can to make herself unwanted by her soon to be new "husband." Dion is determined to buy his father's company and tear it apart. The father who abandoned him. So when his latest deal puts him closer to that end, he'll go along with it even if it means he has to get married to close that deal. He figures he can let her down easily, and everything will go back to normal. But then Sophia happens. She's nothing like he had expected. She's not trying to marry the billionaire, or seduce him the way women tend to do. She intrigues him and he wants her even though it's obvious she isn...

Review of Hold Me Today (Put A Ring On It #1) by Maria Luis Ermione (Mina) is less than thrilled that her best friend's brother, Nick, is the contractor who's going to be renovating her salon. Nick, the man she's always crushed on. The man totally her opposite, who is a grumpy rule-follower, and who has never seen her as more than his little sister's best friend, a pita one at that. So when he needs a fake girlfriend, she can't say no, can she? Not to the man she's still crushing on, even as they drive each other nuts?! Best friend's brother/brother's best friend is one of absolute favorite romantic tropes, and the author does well by it here in Hold Me Today . Nick and Mina have so much chemistry and it's obvious where this is going from their very first meet on page. Their history, spanning years, is given enough weight to anchor their relationship in the present, and aided by a wonderful secondary cast, their relationship slowly evolves f...