A fantastic cover and a great first scene quickly (and
sadly) devolve into a plodding romance in this one.
One terrible morning everything that can go wrong is going
wrong for Lana Scott, a senior financial analyst with Bit-Cube. The cherry on
the icing of her awful morning is when her heel breaks. Serendipitously, the
tragedy happens right in front of a shoe repair and tailoring shop owned by Elli
Voss. Elli handles Lana’s bitch-mood with patience and gentleness making
Lana’s day a lot better. Lana has lost her passion for her job and is thinking
of either taking a sabbatical or leaving it. Elli lost the love of her life six
years back, and with that the dream of having her own family to continue the
family business which she is currently running. An immediate tempered
attraction between the two with some determined effort from Lana has the two of
them finding peace, stability and forever.
The story and the romance are not bad but the writing is (we
hate to say this) – awful. The writing lets the book down entirely. Stilted dialogues,
poor narration, internal over-reactions: it is a fail on many levels. In fact,
we had to quite force ourselves to complete this one. Lana is a likeable MC but
Elli, for all her easy-going, good-temperedness is not. And the overuse of 'aye' got old fairly quickly.
This one is easily a give-a-miss.
⭐☆
