Terrible title for a terrific romance, with a feisty, veterinarian FMC
Jace Diamandis is a 28-year-old Greek billionaire, who initially became rich through inheritance, but has since greatly expanded the family fortune. He and the FMC, 23-year-old Gigi, meet when he arrives at her home to collect his dog. Gigi had rescued his adorable Irish wolfhound, Mo, who had gotten off his leash and was in danger of being run over in the street in front of her house. Gigi is a half-British, half-Greek veterinarian who works at a local animal shelter in a small, oceanside village in Greece.
I really enjoyed this novel. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down, staying up far past my bedtime to gobble it down. Gigi is an unusual LG FMC in that she is the highly intelligent, illegitimate daughter of a genius, professor mother. Gigi completed an advanced degree at the same age that most LG FMCs have barely graduated from secondary school.
Jace bears very little resemblance to the harsh, alpha MMCs that LG wrote for the first half of her 35-year tenure with Harlequin Presents, but that doesn't bother me at all. I definitely enjoyed the first phase of her career, but I have also been greatly enjoying her non-abrasive MMCs of the past 15-20 years.
After skimming through multiple disappointing romances this week, it was a huge relief to me to read a novel by LG. She knows exactly how to meet all the expectations of devoted fans of the genre, without employing any binge drinking, foul language, or excessive crude sex for its own sake. All of her sex scenes are consistently both emotionally and sensually enthralling, which always serves to promote the romance. I'm not personally into BDSM, no matter how lite a version it is, and I, thankfully, don't ever have to worry about LG sticking that into her stories to supposedly keep romance readers from getting bored with sex scenes. For me it is just the opposite.
There's currently no audiobook available for this novel, which is surprising, because for the past several years Harlequin has been releasing an audiobook for every novel that LG writes. Surprisingly, as well, the ebook version is not available through Hoopla. Harlequin does not offer their books through Kindle Unlimited, but the $4.99 that I spent for this novel was well worth it.
There is a second book in this series starring the half-brother of the MMC of this novel, Greek's One-Night Babies-- with triplets! (LG loves multiple births!)