Vicky is just a 24 year old with a teenage sister trying to survive all on their own in New York until an eccentric lady with a little dog Smuckers gets convinced Vicky can read Smuckers' mind and after passing leaves her multi-billion cooperation to Smuckers with Vicky as his interpreter. His narcissist mother's last move upsets her son and company's CEO Henry and he is at first highly suspicious of Vicky and her motives. Vicky also has some skeletons in her closet. But the more time the two spend together, the more their guts tell them to trust each other, but can their guts win over their minds?

What a delightful discovery! One of the smartest and sweetest rom-coms I have read recently and the narrators are doing a damn good job 👏 Jason Clarke's voice makes your knees melt.

However, I enjoyed the first half of it much more than the second half. The second half and the ending were too predictable - there was, in my opinion, unnecessary 3rd Act Break Up and very cheesy Make Up. The escape to London seemed too unbelievable for me. So the second half took a star away from the rating. ( )

It takes a while to warm up to Henry, but once you do, he’s a pretty decent guy. He is the CEO of a worldwide, billion dollar corporation. His mother, in her will, leaves the company in the hands of her dog and the woman who was granted custody of the dog. And Henry has to find a way to deal with this problem. Despite his attraction Vicky. Vicky, on the other hand, was definitely surprised by the will. She just thought she would be getting enough money to care for the dog in the manner he was accustomed. She never imagined she’d end up with control of a company. Things are very rocky between Vicky and Henry at first, because he thinks she’s a scam artist. But they get to know each other and fall for each other. Until secrets from her past blow them apart.

Overall, I really liked this book. I liked Henry and Vicky as a couple. They were a fun couple to get to know. And at the end, we get a sneak peek of Henry’s friend Theo and the girl that he’s chasing. That should be an interesting follow up to this book. ( )

I wasn't sure if I would like this book, the premise seemed a bit silly.
It was so good, quite funny also quite moving in parts.
No cheating.
No O/W or O/M drama.
HEA. ( )

This started out fun, with the crabby old woman, a cute dog and an innocent hard working woman. When she is left with control of a mega company as the dog whisperer the antics are hilarious. I really enjoyed the banter and all the supporting characters. Then they had sex, fine but it took over the story for too long, before getting back to the characters. It just didn't fit in the mood of the story for me, it felt like comic romance to erotica to romance. ( )

It's nice when you pick up a freebie, months later cruise through your Kobo and find a cute cover with a cute guy in a suit and think "this looks fun," and then lo and behold, it is fun...

Honestly, I really had low expectations. What I expected was a bunch of fluff. And it was fluff, but it wasn't just fluff either. The characters dealt with some real issues, from Vicky's prior incident in her youth (whoa, left field, I was surprised too), to both of them having mom issues that *takes a deep breath* didn't define them, but did create real, relatable tension.

Henry is an architect who designs beautiful buildings, who yeah, is also a CEO - and put that behind you cause that doesn't happen at multi-billion dollar multinational corporations. Vicky is a funky jewelry seller and designer, just getting by and taking care of her sister due to aforementioned mommy issues. What brings them together? The plot is utter nonsense. If you get hung up on plausibility as a reader, skip right on by (and if plausibility is your jam, the odds of having a hot young billionaire are pretty much zero as far as I can tell so you probably would've already skipped right on by already). The characters, however, are not nonsense. Both Vicky and Henry have a good amount of consistent characterization, and feel real, with well-drawn tension between them-- both of the sexual and of the conflict variety. What results from this mix of tension and characters is a super enjoyable, cozy blanket of a read that had some tender and some laugh out loud moments. I feel like if these two belonged to a house in Harry Potter, it'd be Hufflepuff.

And my competence porn shelf is born. I always knew I liked competence in my characters but it is fun to have a (nearly direct) quote from a book birth it. I shouldn't neglect to mention that in addition to cute and adorable this book was also really hot. I feel like as a regular romance reader, it bears a call-out that Martin can write some nice and dirty sex scenes that didn't feel rote to help us through our day. 3.5 rounded up for the heat, because I'm cold and I needed that.



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