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    The RSVP by Lauren Blakely

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    The RSVP by Lauren BlakelyThe RSVP by Lauren Blakely
    Series: The Virgin Society #1
    Published by Lauren Blakely Books on 4th January 2023
    Pages: 366
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    three-stars

    Our days are full of secrets. Our nights are for seduction…

    For the last year, I’ve wanted someone I can’t have. The man my father built his latest multimillion dollar business with. He’s a decade older than I am, and he’s entirely forbidden.

    The fact that he’s never given me a second glance only makes me long for him more. But the other night, across the room at a gala, everything changed.

    His broody gaze lingered on me and grew darker.

    So I’m officially done being the good girl. Tomorrow I turn 21. As a gift to myself, I plan to seduce my father’s business partner.

    Happy birthday to me.

    I struggled mightily with this one, despite it being a mouthwatering age-gap kind of story that I (not-so) secretly dig. The cover says it’s written by Lauren Blakely, but the New Adult voices bordering on cringey somehow don’t really line up with what I know of Blakely’s more ‘adult-ish’ tone for her books.

    There was definitely a poor-little-rich-girl vibe that had a determined Harlow going after her womanising father’s business partner and if that didn’t really smack of desperation all around, there was too much of a staged process where Harlow schemed, flirted and plotted her way to get closer to Bridger.

    On the other hand, Bridger’s struggle with his attraction to a younger woman made him blow hot and cool, yet it never really felt like a relationship of equals despite Blakely’s relatively low-angst version of both protagonists being relatively mature about what they both want and how they feel. And although this has nothing to do with our couple in question, having Harlow’s unsavoury, immoral father in the mix detracted from the sheen of their relationship, considering he is the very factor that is also a source of conflict between them.

    I ending putting down and taking up ‘The RSVP’ numerous times, the slow-burning somehow turning into a glacial burn when I thought it could move faster. Overall, it’s not a bad read as Blakley quite deftly manoeuvres past all points of conflict–and gets them over quickly rather than drawing them out–but maybe it’s not quite my thing.

    three-stars
    The RSVP by Lauren Blakely was last modified: January 24th, 2023 by Dísir
    24th January 2023 0 comment
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    Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

    by Dísir 1st August 2022

    Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik Series: Starlight’s Shadow, #2, #2 Published by Harper Voyager on 12th July 2022 Pages: 400 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Kee Ildez has been many…

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    Northern Deception by Tonya Burrows

    by Dísir 27th June 2022

    Northern Deception by Tonya Burrows Series: Northern Rescue, #2, #2 Published by Amazon Digital Services, Amazon Publishing on 24th August 2021 Pages: 224 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Nate Hunter simply…

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    Larapinta by Annie Seaton

    by Dísir 20th June 2022

    Larapinta by Annie Seaton Series: Porter Sisters #5 Published by Amazon Digital Services, Amazon Publishing on March 11th 2022 Pages: 278 Buy on Amazon Goodreads At a crossroads in her…

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    The One Who Loves You by Pippa Grant

    by Dísir 29th January 2022

    The One Who Loves You by Pippa Grant Series: Tickled Pink, #1, #1 Published by Montlake on 12th July 2022 Pages: 395 Buy on Amazon Goodreads If the Upper East…

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    Last Seen Alone by Laura Griffin

    by Dísir 19th January 2022

    Last Seen Alone by Laura Griffin Published by Berkley Books on 28th September 2021 Pages: 336 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion,…

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    True Wolf by Paige Tyler

    by Dísir 5th January 2022

    True Wolf by Paige Tyler Series: STAT #3 Published by Sourcebooks on 22nd March 2022 Pages: 312 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Nuclear weapons have been stolen from the Air Force,…

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