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Stranded?with my nemesis.AXEL: It's bad enough an unseasonal blizzard means I'm stuck with my PA's annoying cat, but to make matters worse, Mia Samson and her poison pen are in my house too. The renowned reviewer has tanked enough books with her dreaded DNF and I need to teach her a lesson. But my enemy is not what I expect and if I'm not careful, I'm in danger of revealing my secret to the one person who can use it against me.MIA: I know people in publishing call me the career-wrecker behind my back. What they don't know is, I'm writing a novel, and when I'm lucky enough to win a week-long retreat with bestselling Axel Low in quaint Sugar Plain, Nebraska, I'm thrilled.Until I discover being snowed in with the reclusive grump is merely the first trope my life has turned into, and soon I'm sorely tempted to enact enemies to lovers?Which one of us will lose the plot first?
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Shortish Near Meta Romance. This is one of those books where the author packs so much real-world stuff that directly applies to themselves in the novel that you almost can't tell where the novel ends and the author begins. Specifically as it relates to insider knowledge of how things actually work within the industry moreso than with any particular plot line within this tale, to be sure. The romance itself here *does* go from enemies to lovers rather abruptly, so if you're looking for a lot of angst or drama in that transition... let's just say that Marsh didn't have a lot of room within this page count for a lot of drama *both* at this point *and* in the standard "final conflict" of romance novels, so clearly an editorial decision was made here. Clearly, Marsh thinks it works well and honestly, so do I. But I've never been overly picky with my romance tales - they're fun escapism for a few hours, nothing more serious than that. But *that* - fun escapism for a few short hours - is *exactly* what this tale ultimately is. And I'm very intrigued to see where Book 2 goes after this book not exactly being an obvious series starter. Very much recommended.
Originally posted at bookanon.com.
