Received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

DNFed at 50%. While I really liked the premise the writing style kind of annoyed me. I'm all for banter, but it was too much and I got nothing out of it. I kept waiting for something to happen and it just bounced too much...add in the fantasies that weren't and very little about the surrounding characters and it just wasn't right for me.

A sexy, fun pairing…

The dialogue was zippy, innuendo-laden and full of heat and humour. Brian had found a woman who was just looking for one and done, and he, he realized (shocked beyond understanding), was not willing to settle for that. Every conversation, encounter, was one more step closer to breaching her defenses and possibly, possibly, nailing that first date...

I loved this story! Ex-military and all player, Brian was totally smitten with a woman whose barriers were higher than the Great Wall. Kit was not going to give in to the incredible force that was Brian. Kanoodling was fine but emotions, commitment, those were for other people. Even if she might wish, in the deepest places in her heart, that things were different….

This was role-reversal at its best with the classic romance trope put on its ear. There is steam and humour throughout and I loved Nora and Rob being such a part of Kit and Brian’s courtship. I want there to be more ‘Gentleman’!