When Gracie Met the Grump

I usually love most things MZ writes but this one was a miss for me. I can take her usual toilet humor in small doses but it just seemed like it was dialed up quite a few notches in this book. The first half of the book was so hard to get through, I nearly considered DNFing. Thankfully the second half got a little better but I was overall disappointed.

Hmm..welp I think this was just too long and not long enough.  I feel we spent too much time in Gracies head going over repetitive thoughts.  Over and over and getting no where.  Then when we finally get to the love confessions/romance, it seemed short and the book ended rather quickly after. 

For me it was just uneven.  I feel like a good editor could have cut a couple of hundred pages out especially in the beginning.  I mean they don't even kiss until after page 550.... so 550 pages of Gracies repetitive thoughts and some storyline but not really romance.  I didn't feel the romance at all even at the end.  I love slow burn romances but this one just didn't work for me.  But I'll definitly read the next mz book that comes out.  

Gracie was getting ready to be on move again when a member of the Trinity lands injured in her backyard. And he showed no appreciation to her efforts of taking care of him as he healed in her trailer home. As luck would have it, the cartel that has been after Gracie's family for years have finally caught up with her, and her companion is still in no shape to help out. But what if him landing in her backyard was no coincidence? 

I enjoyed the sci-fi twist in this book. It paired nicely with the romance while allowing more suspension of reality than what a regular contemporary does. The interactions between Gracie and Alex were funny at times, cute at others, and sometimes even downright gut-wrenching. I stayed up till the wee hours of the morning to finish this book, and for the next three days after I kept returning to it and re-reading the parts I enjoyed the most.  I hope that we will get to see more of Alex's siblings find their happily ever after in upcoming books, especially after Selene's statement that at least now one of them won't die sad and alone.