3.5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️
We met Nero, the MMC, briefly in Book 1 of the series. In that book, he was supposedly so drop dead gorgeous that Avery, Heather’s fraternal twin, was momentarily stunned by his looks when she first sees him getting out out of a car and his men were chuckling at the common reaction Nero gets from women. But in this book, there is no such reaction to Nero’s looks although Heather goes on and on about how good looking he is.
The MFC, Heather, is a model and no slouch herself when it comes to her beauty. What threw me about her character development in this book was how she became such a crybaby when dealing with abusive clients in her modeling career. Was this book written before the #MeToo movement? (In the first book of the series Heather is drawn as having a much stronger personality the way she handles/helps out with some of her siblings situations. I didn’t see that part of Heather’s personality as much in this book.) And what person, especially a single woman, in this day and age, makes a point of deliberately not looking someone up on social media to find out more about that person especially when the MMC lied about his surname? It is not a matter of ‘trust’ but personal safety and security even though Heather jokes about hoping that Nero isn’t a serial killer when she invites him to stay with her in her apartment. SMH
Plus, the series, after this book, has now turned into a Mafia Romance series trope which is not my favorite. So this will probably be the last one I read from this series by this author because of that change in direction.
Also, I suggest reading the first book which that predates the Lawson Lovers and tells the story of how the parents of the Lawson siblings got together.