- All he wanted was to get the job done and somehow to endure those long months playing nanny to a spoiled little rich girl. Without strangling her with his bare hands in the process. Well, it is going to be much easier said than done.
- All she wanted was to escape the past and live like any other nineteen-year-old girl. Her plan definitely didn’t include the arrogant, tattooed savage, with his awful mohawk hair and lack of social graces, whose only mission was to stick real close and mess up her life.
But, people aren’t always what they seem to be, are they?
My Thoughts:
I really liked the premise of this book because I enjoy stories about people who have nothing in common yet find themselves attracted to each other and somehow make it work between them. These are some of favorite storylines because of the ready-built tension of being opposites; there's just so much potential for things to go wrong because of the way they were brought up, the way they view the world, etc. And it's exciting to see how they react to each other, the situation they find themselves in, and just life in general. It's a really fun story trope.
Unfortunately, this story didn't quite live up to expectations. It was really vague in some spots and I know this was probably to meant to add mystery to the story, but it just made me confused instead. It left me wondering who the heck these people were and what were they up to - and not in a good way. It was kind of irritating. It didn't get much better when the main characters were introduced. I didn't really like them and didn't really care what happened to them and that's when I stopped reading. If I don't engage with the characters in the beginning, even if they're mean to each other (show me other reasons why they're good), then I just can't care enough to read their stories. Such is the case with this book. It just wasn't to my liking.
About the Author:
A teenager in an adult’s body. A rebel in the guise of an ordinary citizen. A lady with very unladylike language. A dreamer with a rational mind. A woman born into the wrong era, she still believes that chivalry’s a feat to define the perfect man.
Zoya spent years doing volunteering work all across Europe, from cleaning school basements in Northern Russia to excavating Stone Age artifacts in Euskadi (the Basque country) and renovating castles from the middle ages in Southern France. She always dreamed of working with ‘Doctors without borders’ somewhere out in Africa, but ended up doing an ‘ordinary job’ in one of the smaller European countries.
Her greatest passion is devouring each and every book that comes within her reach.
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