Objection

Ok. Let's begin.

Things I liked about this book (AKA why I didn't give it 1 star):
Unlike the summary suggests, it wasn't straight up porn, and there was some legal stuff (I would've liked to see the ending of her case!), and the main character held her own pretty well with the love interest. She wasn't annoying and when she told him she would move on from him...SHE DID. She didn't whine about not seeing him, or why he didn't want her etc. NO WHINING LIKE THIS AT ALL. Miracle in Romance novels for real, so that was very pleasant. Instead she worked and worried about that. That's definitely a plus....

However.

I read this book because I had a historical romance novel kick, specifically Scottish ones with Highlanders since I have never read any as of yet and wanted to see what all the fuss was about so I really wanted to read a contemporary straight up romance novel. Not a rom com, and I thought this was it especially since I am in my first year of law school so it's relevant to my life. Anyway, I should explain that the Highlander Romance novels left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and this book made me feel the same way. Here are some of the issues:

1) The male love interest: Asshole, “emotionally unstable”/bad childhood/commitment issues/all of the above, super tall, super big, super domineering, super everything. This is SO OLD. Like ugh stop it. I don't care that he “towers over you” like is that really a quality that girls care about? NO. I just am over this male character and the whole “ohhh let me save him with my love and by love i mean sex because obviously sex fixes everything because we are soulmates.” Gross. Stop. Over it.

2) She was an idiot. Props for this character getting into Columbia and I tried to let that fact stop me from being a snob and hating her when she told me she graduated toward the bottom of her class but her actions/thoughts made me hate her anyway. She COMPLAINS bc as a SECOND YEAR ASSOCIATE she is basically her supervisors bitch. Um, duh. You don't know how to practice law yet, girl. You're still learning. She complains about her 80 hour work week and how she has to work on Saturdays when she is a litigator, sure, but for a CORPORATE FINANCE FIRM. Girl, shut up and be happy you have job. For real. Plus corporate stuff is the most taxing when it comes to work hours anyway. Even non-law students/ non lawyers know that. Ridiculous, annoying, and as someone who is attending law school I honestly think it is straight up unrealistic for a recent law grad to actually think that way.

That is all, and I will not be reading the rest of the series. At lease this was free.