3.5

I liked Nav's character Kat not so much but I had/have high hopes of them doing well together. ( )

Nav has loved Kat since nearly the first day he moved into the same apartment building as Kat. But he is fed up with being the best friend and wants to take it to the next level. Kat has asked him to pose as her boyfriend when she has to go back home for her sister's wedding. Now Nav plans to try to move the relationship past the 'friend' stage when Kat decides to take the train back home, and Nav sneaks himself on the train (into her life) while attempting to pose as someone Kat would be interested in sexually.

I agree with many of the other reviewers that feel Kat was selfish and shallow, but I will take it further and say that I found Nav to be manipulative, pushy and totally unpleasant.

This was a very thinly disguised erotica trying to pose as a mainstream romance. The sex and the sexual innuendo is hot for this genre and some of Nav's ideas in how to trap Kat are very creative, but I found the whole thing to be too extreme and contrived. They were both people I would never want as friends and in the long run they deserved each other. ( )

To be fair, I only picked it up because it was free on the Kindle.

that said, I enjoyed parts of it. Kat's been looking for love, but always falls for flashy lust instead. Feeling a bit jaded, she starts out on a train ride to her sister's wedding. What she didn't expect was Nav, her neighbor and date for the wedding, accompanying her and playing games to win her over. Nav is a much more interesting character, but the unrequited love thing got a little annoying.

Four days on a train and she completely overcomes her insecurities from the first 30 years of her life? Going from "just friends" to realizing she's actually in love with her neighbor in that same time? it's so... unrealistic. I found it really hard to suspend my disbelief. There were also a lot of little inconsistencies that bothered me, especially when it came to Nav and his money. ( )