By the Book

A cute enough story but not my favorite

I'd give a 3.5/ 5 stars but I think this will be my last Jasmine Guillory book. I really didn't like Royal Holiday after the 50% mark and with By The Book I remained interested until the 75% mark only because Izzy and Beau took so long to finally get together. And why is it that the two JG books I've read have long distance relationship as one of the major conflicts in the story? Jasmine is very good at writing the pining stage of the romance but once her characters get together I find my interest in them waining due to the constant overthinking, silly misunderstandings, and sometimes cringe flirting. Overall, I liked this book enough to finish it but I was skimming the writing towards the end. It became obvious early on who was antagonizing Izzy at work. Beau blowing up at Izzy anytime she brought up the hard parts of his life started to get old (sir you're writing a memoir. People want to know about the difficult parts of your life!). And Izzy constantly thinking the absolute worst about the situation when she and Beau had a fight or didn't talk to each other for a few hours got annoying.