I really liked Becky but I wish Foster would have stepped up and stood up to his father more. We also never heard what his parents thought of Becky. Would have enjoyed a little more side character interaction.

Yay for another addition to the "Librarians in Love" series. This is one of those must for romance readers, but especially librarians, avid book lovers, and hopeless romantics who enjoy a little witty repertoire before the falling- head- over- heels. This romance has it all--witty banter, sizzling chemistry, and a HEA! Enjoy:)

Becky Schrader has always disappointed her parents by not following in the footsteps of her genius sisters. They were always too busy to do anything normal with her so she yearns for the ordinary life. Unfortunately her previous attempts at relationships with the right guy failed miserably, so her friend has persuaded her to just have fun with a hot lumberjack guy she meets in a bar not expecting to see him again. Foster Deacon returns home to Denver to focus on a big case that’s going to launch his law career, he can’t stop thinking about the hot girl he met in the bar. He’s really going to try to track her down…
Amusing and cute story.

I received an ARC from netgalley for an honest review. This is the type of book that is an awesome quick romantic read on a rainy day. I enjoyed the love story of Foster and Becky. I also enjoyed the detail about Maddie and how she overcame some adversity.

Laws of Attraction, the third entry in Sarah Title’s Librarians in Love series, is a delightfully frothy concoction of a romantic comedy that often had me smiling and, once or twice, laughing out loud.  Mild-mannered legal librarian Becky Schrader is fed up with falling for the wrong guy; she supposes it’s her own fault for constantly looking for Mr. Dream-Guy-picket-fence-and-a-dog, and her best friend is trying to convince her to let her hair down once in a while and have some fun with Mr. let-me-keep-you-up-all-night-screaming-my-name instead.  Becky isn’t averse to the odd bout of anonymous hot monkey sex, but deep down she really does want a normal life, the picket fence and the great guy.

On a night out with her friend Dakota, Becky is about to leave to make her way home when a new arrival catches her eye and changes her mind.  Dressed casually in a flannel shirt and jeans and sporting sexy face-scruff … forget the hot monkey, she’s picked herself out a hot lumberjack for the night.  There’s an instant zing of heat between her and the guy she hears addressed as ‘Deke’, and before long, they’re on the way back to his place. The sex is every bit as toe-curlingly hot as she could have wanted, and Becky sneaks out of Mr. Lumberjack’s surprisingly chic apartment the next morning with head held high – mission accomplished - fully expecting never to see him again.

Becky obviously hasn’t read enough romance novels, because naturally, her scruffy, sexy lumberjack walks into the offices of the law firm where she works a couple of days later. Clean-shaven, designer-suited (and still sexy) he turns out to be none other than hotshot lawyer Foster Deacon, who has left his high-flying job in New York and returned home to Denver in order to prosecute a big intellectual property case.  While Foster is pleased to see Becky and has hopes of picking up where they left off, Becky is little short of horrified.  Foster is cute, funny and great in bed, but he’s a legal genius – and she’s sworn off lawyers and she’s doubly sworn off geniuses (genii?).  Plus she’s not looking for another relationship; he was supposed to be a one-night-stand, not a potential Mr. Picket-Fence.

Okay, so being a little wary of jumping into a new relationship is understandable, but the romantic conflict in the story pretty much stems from Becky’s stance that she doesn’t want to date a lawyer, and the way she keeps avoiding Foster for basically no reason just makes her seem a bit silly and immature. There are a couple of work-related emails that piss her off for no discernible reason and after that she decides he’s an arrogant pig - which makes no sense and is obviously just an attempt to inject some tension into a story that has quite a bit going on and doesn’t really need it.

Fortunately, however, by this time, Ms. Title had set up both characters as decent, likeable individuals and thrown in plenty of humour and some interesting situations and secondary characters, so that although Becky’s attitude bugged me, I was sufficiently engaged by the story and the deftness and confidence of the writing that I was content to set those concerns aside and watch everything unfold.

While the developing romance between Becky and Foster is the focus of the book, there’s a secondary plotline featuring Foster’s sixteen year-old, tearaway sister, who has been in trouble with the law and is doing her community service sentence by helping out at the animal shelter run by Becky’s friend, Dakota.  Part of Foster’s reason for coming back to Denver was to spend more time with Madison and maybe help keep her out of trouble, but she’s having a difficult time, especially as their parents have no idea how to approach her or talk to her.  Or each other, really.  Foster’s relationship with her is nicely done; he’s a caring big brother, and she obviously adores him, but neither of them are close to their workaholic father and self-absorbed mother.

Foster’s family issues, however, seem almost insignificant next to Becky’s.  Her parents and her two sisters are scientists – real scientists, that is, who don’t view library science as proper science – one sister has just won a prestigious award, the other is on the International Space Station… it’s easy to understand Becky’s reluctance to become involved with a genius of any description!  It also accounts for her desire for a normal life with a nice house, a dog, and a nongenius lumberjack. For her family, a nice Sunday night meal is a misnomer – why waste time cooking when they can eat something out of a box and get back to work? Birthdays?  Um… when are they?  Christmas?  A nuisance because all the labs are shut, but at least it means they can catch up on their professional reading.   They’re a bit over the top maybe, but I liked the way these tunnel-visioned individuals contrasted with Becky who is warm, witty and surprisingly well-adjusted.

Ultimately, however, Ms. Title doesn’t get too hung-up on the hang-ups and oh – I should mention the cute rescue dog for the dog-lovers out there; I’m more of a cat person, but I know there are many readers for whom a hot guy and a ball-of-fluff-mutt are a winning combination.

Laws of Attraction is a fast-paced, funny and light-hearted read featuring a likeable, well-matched central couple, witty dialogue and a nice bit of steam on the side.  I haven’t read the other books in the series, so it works perfectly well as a standalone; and while it’s not something that’s going to stick with me, it was a lot of fun and might be just the thing if you’re looking for a pick-me-up on a grey Autumn afternoon.

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Wonderful contemporary romance, perfect, quick, enjoyable read. I liked the characters and feel readers will enjoy the main female character and the idea of a "lumberjack" is perfect. The love of rescue dogs will also resonate with readers.

Fun, flirty and sexy, three things I love in a book. Add in a super hot lawyer with a completely loveable and mushy interior and I was hooked. We have law librarian, Becky Schrader, who is forever making bad choices when it comes to men (all she wants is the white picket fence), so after her most recent breakup her best friend decides she needs a night of debauchery, one night, no holds barred. Enter lumberjack Deke and Becky has the one night stand she was looking for, that is until the new hire walks into her law firm. Yes, it's the one and only Deke the lumberjack, who as it turns out is actually hotshot lawyer, Foster Deacon, and Becky has sworn off lawyers, oh and geniuses too, and Foster just happens to be a genius in his field. Herein follows some cute and extremely funny scenarios all involving Foster trying to help Becky in his own way. Highly enjoyable read. I was provided with an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

<p>It took me a week to figure out how to write this review. I’m giving it four stars. It probably could/should have been five, but it lost a full star because I’m not going to be passing this novel around. <U>Laws of Attraction</U> is a well-researched, well-written romance. It ticks almost all the boxes I normally attribute to a great book. </p>
<p>My household is one of thousands who is boycotting the NFL this year. It’s been hard, almost like a death in the family, as Sunday family, food, and football after church has been a tradition as far back as anyone can remember. We’re abstaining because football is our escape. The only politics in football should be the politics OF football- which player is starting, the merits of one play over another, etc. So, looking for something to do, I picked up my Kindle and read. As I finished the last pages of this book, I started getting calls from friends and family. Everyone was checking in, because I’ve spent a good part of the last 15 years living in southern Nevada, and tragedy had struck. FYI- I have connections to one injured person, but otherwise, everyone is ok. </p> <p>While absolutely the right venue to demonstrate or even start conversations on the world around us, I’m just too agitated at the moment to filter. Ms. Title did a great job and has the right to express anything she wishes. However, all I needed was the promised HEA, and none of the politics. That’s all on me. I’m sure there are plenty of people who’ll love and enjoy <u>Laws of Attraction</u> for a plethora of reasons. I just can’t be. It’s a good book for people who don’t mind a “self-aware” romance. I apparently need to find a new outlet without polarizing politics for a while. Wish me luck. </p><p>I received a copy of <u>Laws of Attraction</u> by Sarah Title from <i>Kensington Books</i> via <b>Netgalley</b> in exchange for an honest review. </p>

Librarians and lawyers are two of my favorite professions to read about, if done right. The author clearly did her research and details about Becky and Foster's professional lives were spot-on. However, their romance, loaded with endless internal monologues and stream of consciousness dialogues, was cute but clunky.

Turns out this story isn't just about legal librarian Becky trying to resist the charms of hotshot IP attorney Foster, but there are lots of distracting side characters and family members, not to mention one cute rescue dog. There's a bratty teenager, controlling parents, indifferent siblings, and horny best friends running amok while Becky keeps insisting that she won't fall for anyone who is a genius. Becky's thoughts about love with a genius made no sense because, frankly, Foster was fairly clueless. He was completely in over his head with Becky, his little sister, even the dog.

Again, the story was cute but I wished there was more of just Becky and Foster alone.

Funny, sassy and sexy. Enjoyable read that entertains the entire time. I appreciated the strength of law librarian Becky is a strong, witty and well rounded lady who hasn't been too scarred by her over-achieving and highly eccentric family. I kept trying to picture what these people looked like and couldn't get anything other than tweed jackets and dark rimmed jackets. Even though their treatment, or ambivalence to Becky, she maintained a frustrated love for parents who completely neglected her and dumped her due to her ordinariness.

Becky meets Deke in a bar and has no clue who he really is and the ramifications of her one night stand. Foster Deacon is everything she loathes: smart, genius smart that is, Ivy League and an attorney. Despite her stand to forego all those characteristics in a romantic partner, Becky soon finds attraction doesn't always play by the rules.

Foster Deacon was a very likable character. Leaves big ambition in the city to come home to a smaller firm, which he thinks he can male partner in sooner, with his main focus on being there for his much younger sister. His family life is as about as bad Becky's in it's own ways. Loved the way Foster steps in to be a great big brother while navigating what he should and shouldn't do to help her.

When Becky and Foster have been so conditioned by their home lives it's hard for them both to get to the point of being open to having a relationship wit one another. Becky thinks she will never be smart enough and Foster doesn't realize he is falling into his father's footsteps of work being first.

Enjoyable read of learning the laws of attraction and the proper way to court them.

This was a fun mix of romance with humor. We have a legal librarian, Becky, who suffers from a desire for a normal, white-fence kind of marriage and family. She’s had to endure the contemptuous indifference from the rest of her family who are all genius scientists and disdain her work as “just a librarian.”

She meets a bearded lumberjack-looking guy at a bar and has a night of great sex. And then, you guessed it, the lumberjack is actually a new lawyer at the firm where she works. Foster wants to pick up where they left off because he’s very attracted to Becky. She keeps turning him down, but they still keep encountering each other.

Foster turns out to be a lovely guy who moved to Denver partly to help out his teenaged sister. Throw in a traumatized darling of a dog that Foster adopts for his sister’s sake and he becomes irresistible.

These are likeable people whom you will be pulling for to reach their HEA. And you’ll enjoy the humor along the way.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Hilarious inner monologues, banter that is fantastically witty, and a smart dialogue that captures your heart...leaving you wanting more.

Becky is sassy, with a quiet intelligence and a giant heart. Foster is both her dream and worst nightmare when it comes to the normal life and family she longs for. They complicated each other and had a chemistry that sizzles...it was heartwarming how Becky was able to help Foster realize that she and his family were his priorities...oh and Starr too. Too cute that a big alpha male could fall head over heels for a little mop of a dog.

Endearing secondary characters played a large part in creating the pure enjoyment of the story...not to mention the adorable dogs that rounded out the perfect story to lose yourself in for a few hours.

This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and NetGalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.

While I was really looking forward to a book about a strong woman (as alluded to in the author's notes) this one was a let down. First off, this is a book about a strong woman but it only shows a man on the cover - that doesn't scream" strong woman inside!" to me. That small issue would have been fine but the main character and her best friend were awful. Having it implied that a feminist should feel guilty for wanting "marriage and kids and all those boring, traditional things" is not only off-putting, it is flat-out ignorant. Plenty of us are feminists who want (or have) a family - that does not make us weak or any less feminist. Coupling that bit of "wisdom" from the "heroine" of this book with the unapologetic stereotyping of all young men in sports bars as "bros" who have absolutely no problems at all in their lives just because they're white, Her ex wearing rugby shirts and talking to his frat brothers apparently means that he doesn't understand misogyny inherent in the system? Becky isn't a feminist, she's just an incredibly bitter character who hates white men who might possibly have more than she does (because there's no way they WORKED HARD for the things they have, obviously) and this was a very, very quick DNF for me.

I adore this series - just flat-out, 100% love, from the humor, to the characters, to the romance. Highly recommending this book, its predecessors, and am sincerely hoping that more are forthcoming!