The Hooker and the Hermit

The Hooker and the Hermit

2015 • 339 pages

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Average rating2.5

15

***Edited to say I did finish this. I couldn't give up when I made it so far. But for the last 20%, I skimmed. After sleeping on it, I'm changing my review from 2 to 1 stars.

DNF at 80%. I just couldn't do it anymore. This book is kind of all over the place. We have an introverted hermit who works for a PR firm and wears baggy clothes and little makeup and a rugby player who needs his image revamped because rugby players are apparently well-known celebrities who are constantly followed by paps and written about in gossip magazines?? Idk. Anyways, rugby player then falls for hermit the minute he sees her and proceeds to stick his hand up her shirt. Aside from that, this book has too many tropes. Insta-lust, a fake relationship that sort of becomes real, a scary parent who still thinks they can control their 30-year-old manchild, a bitter ex, a burglary, and to top it all off, throw some BDSM into the mix. It's too much, especially when there's nothing really likable about the main characters to begin with.

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