Some Like It Perfect

3.5/5

First off, I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this story a lot more than I thought I would.
That sounds probably awful, but considering that the story uses some of the genre tropes I have grown extremely wary (and weary) of, it might be understandable.
Our hero is “The Wealthy CEO”, and beautiful to boot, our heroine is “The Plucky Redhead” with oh-so-wild hair... - my eyes were basically rolling even before the story had properly started.

BUT. The author actually pulled it off to make the (main) characters likeable, and the story is beautifully written.
Especially during the first half of the book I found myself smiling a lot (sometimes even laughing out loud). For the first part, I would have given this book at least 4 stars.
It's funny, it's romantic, it has some witty dialogue and it doesn't need graphic sex scenes.

By far the biggest issue I had with the story was Justine's sub-plot. That one had a pretty high ickiness-factor and is one of the reasons why I didn't give a higher rating. Also, I might have liked her character more if her story hadn't developed the way it did.

I would have preferred the story to be mostly about Delia and Jack, with some Gus and family drama thrown in. That would have been sufficient for me.
Gus changing her name later was pointless in my opinion (it did nothing for the story, and I felt it didn't help her “growing up”, rather the opposite). So... why?

On top of that, I didn't care at all for the epilogue (although I know that there are many readers who liked it a lot).

Will I read more books by this author? I most probably will. (I did mention the beautiful writing, didn't I?)