DNF at 46%
Uh, honestly I'm concerned.
Let's tackle the main issue right away, Plant Twat.
Chase, lovely German Shepherd that the premise described, I expected him to be somewhat the bundle of joy of the situation, what with the crush theme and the sweet first encounter in the library, which I must admit gave me the yuckies. I brushed that first warning off, cuz why not, he's asking her on a date as she's crying for the demise of their not even yet cold boss.
I thought it'd be just a poor plot management on the author's part, I was both right and extremely, utterly wrong.
I just might say that Ficus boy here is the most legit red flag I've ever read on a romance book after The alcoholic, the shiny fang, and Nox (The rapppist from The Bonds that Tie).
The way he is so absolutely not interested in anything outside himself, let alone the mfc, what with the ghost buster thingy, the gardening, the whole "must resist cuz inheritance ", ugh.
The way he absolutely despise Brody, which for the record is the only reason I've bother to give two stars to this book, is uncalled for AND borderline psychotic. As is uncalled for the way the mfc treats Brody herself, but that's a whole other issue I won't even address in the review. Which, says it all.
After Chase finds out about homegirl secret of BEING HOMELESS AND DESPERATE, let pride be allowed in the equation too, but I kind of understand the need to not being pitied, he all but throw a tantrum about it, declaring the need for space and proceed to brush of our mfc, not dissimilarly from what he'd been doing both before and after they fucked. Nothing much has changed there for the reader, and yet homegirl seems to be gutted by it, somehow.
What i really really REALLY am struggling to understand is the whole thought behind the Creation of the character in itself, cuz I am relatively sure that he was not meant to come out like this.
And I know, I know that often enough the characters just pick themselves up from the page and develop their own existence themselves, but it's also important for an author to channel that kind of potential disaster into something resembling anything BUT the average American dude with a pistol in the glove box outside his ex girlfriend house.
Overall, the book could've been really fun to read, the idea is not short of spectacularly endearing.
As it is, the mfc has little to no depth whatsoever, the first romantic interest is what it is and he lawyer is just plain boring.
Brody is good, not nearly enough to support the rest, but if he were to be transferred into any other Book, he'd easily be my favourite character.