OTT characters with juvenile characters and writing!
MMC:
Manwhore galore who has women on retainer and a listing of what they like, what profession there are into, etc so that he can tell them apart.
“Once a woman entered my thoughts, it was difficult to get her out, but with Ray, it was different”.
I thing author meant to say that once a woman entered his life, it wasn’t difficult to get her out of his thoughts or something and that with Ray, the heroine, it was difficult to forget her. At least that’s what I first thought it meant but then we learn that he is very into all the bunnies he f**ks making sure he pleasures them and they leave happy.
“You know why they’re so obsessed with me Ray? It’s not because of my money. It’s not because of my gold medals. It’s because I give a shit about their pleasure and make them feel things they didn’t know men were capable of”.
“I didn’t want a bunny. They seemed too immature, too boring. With Ray, it was more of a chase, as if I was a lion hunting down a gazelle. There was something exciting about that even if we didn’t end upsetting it perfectly. The bunnies offered themselves to me on a silver platter, no chase there. It was boring”.
MMC was a professional skier and had a childhood sweetheart who was his first love and his first & only relationship. When he was 19, he was in an accident that ended his career and his GF ditched him and married someone else. Devastated, he became a manwhore because you know, that what MMCs do when they are butt hurt…Lol.
FMC:
She had an affair with her former boss and because she came to work a few days late, he fired her and she was angry. Apparently when you sleep with the Boss, that gives you the right to slack off and get butt hurt when he fires you. Lol
Her Mother has dementia and we have chapter after chapter how she hates taking care of her, how she has no life because of that, how she is broke, etc.
From someone who had a family member with Dementia, I know how hard & exhausting it can be and how it takes a village to care for someone with this disease. So while I wasn’t totally bothered with her attitude at first, it became tiresome and frustrating to constantly hear her whinnying about it and then author had to go and insert some crap about a miracle drug that cured her mother’s dementia. Lol.
Outside of all this, what reviewers don’t mention is how awful the writing and characters are. This is no romance at all! They are both unlikable but especially FMC. Hero with his constant bunny reminders of his former hookups like he’s proud to be a walking STD asshole and constantly calling FMC “Blunder Bunny” for 90% of the story. Heroine with her hot/cold bitchy & ice queen attitude for 99.9% of the story!
Safety:
No cheating
No intimate scenes with OP though we do have mentions of how good in the sack MMC was with his interchangeable "bunnies".
Not clear if he was with any of his bunnies after FMC comes in the picture and before they hooked up.