MY RATING
5 stars--WOW
4 stars--would read again
3 stars--was good
2 stars--didn't enjoy
1 star--didn't finish
Should I read books before this one: no, but I can tell at least 2 stories did
Cliffhanger: no
SUMMARY
Reese has a great job chauffeuring for Bea and her 2 grandsons. Ward doesn't talk to her, Nick doesn't let her get a word in edgewise. He thinks she's a college boy, until he sees her at an employee function. Then he realizes his mistake. He needs to apologize, but she doesn't want his gifts. It goes on for weeks.
He asks her to take notes at a conference. “Which seminar can you stand? Our choices are Doctor Boring on green architecture or Miss Monotonous on functional flow.” Then he passes notes. We have to quit calling her Doctor Boring. Her name is Bowling. Can you believe it? She’s Boring Bowling. She replies, Shut up before you get us in trouble. You made me come here! He writes, “Trouble?” What are we? High schoolers?
Months later, he asks her to be his date to a gala that night. Cinderella experience. He kisses her while they're dancing, then Carmen (starlet, on again off again girlfriend) throws alcohol in his face and slaps him for bringing a bimbo to make her jealous. Reese escapes outside, Nick follows. “How angry are you? Scale of one to ten?” “Ninety! I hate you. You’re the most disgusting, selfish person I’ve ever met, and I grew up in a horrible foster system full of crazies, so—” “Reese—” “Let me finish. I really need this job. My sister always spends more than she makes, and I help take care of my niece. I’m finally able to do that comfortably with this salary for the first time since...well, ever. So, I’m hoping if I never mention how much I hate you again, and you never mention this awful joke of a date again, I can keep working." “You’d rather quit your job than let me apologize?” “Yes. I swear, if you make me, I’ll work 2 full-time jobs to make the same money. I’ll drive 16-hour days, up and down this continent, just so I don’t have to listen to one more word of your—your bull. Yes.”
6 months later, Roland Osprey, tabloid reporter, contacts Nick about his years-old sex video with Carmen. Reese, driving, gets a call, pulls into a gas station to take it, panic attack. “Abby got arrested, Nick. Drug sniffing dogs, a SWAT unit, everything. They found enough cocaine in her car to get a group of elephants high and—get this. It was hidden under Millie’s car seat. Who does that?” She’s quiet for a minute. “She’s been clean for years, especially since she became a mom.” The deadbeat dad, Will, left, taking his drug dealing with him. She needs an attorney for Abby, for herself to get custody of Millie. Nick says he'll take care of it.
EVALUATION
I enjoyed the plot, though the pacing isn't consistent. Nick's growth has no basis; Reese's trust (especially at the end) isn't explained, either.
FAVORITE QUOTES
She talks faster than a caffeinated chipmunk. These notes might suck. Also, I keep getting hung up, wondering what things like sustainable ergonomics and industrialized pastiche mean.
Mistakes aren’t the end. When you mess up one day, you just have to do better the next.
Flowers alone can’t make up for the crap I pulled, but a side of flowers with an eviscerating apology and a whole mess of groveling might.
POSSIBLE TRIGGERS (SPOILERS)
Sex: multiple scenes
Language: 256 f***, 152 Lord's name in vain, 151 s***
Violence: slaps, report of beating, drug dealing, stalking
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