Charlotte Stein

When Grumpy Met Sunshine

This opposites attract, forced proximity, fake dating romance should have been right up my alley but something just lacked if I'm brutally honest.

Mabel is the latest in a long line of ghostwriters hired by retired footballer Alfie.  He's reluctant to write his biography and finds any excuse to delay or derail it. Their little arrangement is inadvertently mistaken for a romance and now they have to play it up.

Mabel is curvy - it's so nice to see larger characters finally being taken seriously and not just made the "fat friend/comic relief".  She is empathetic and gets Alfie to open up a bit.  Alfie is uber grumpy but has a practical bent and a protective streak. 

I'm a Scot so swearing is like breathing to me but some may find the amount of searing excessive.  The story starts to lag a bit through the last third of the book.

Nicola Sarah Brooks

This opposites attract, forced proximity, fake dating romance should have been right up my alley but something just lacked if I'm brutally honest.

Mabel is the latest in a long line of ghostwriters hired by retired footballer Alfie.  He's reluctant to write his biography and finds any excuse to delay or derail it. Their little arrangement is inadvertently mistaken for a romance and now they have to play it up.

Mabel is curvy - it's so nice to see larger characters finally being taken seriously and not just made the "fat friend/comic relief".  She is empathetic and gets Alfie to open up a bit.  Alfie is uber grumpy but has a practical bent and a protective streak. 

I'm a Scot so swearing is like breathing to me but some may find the amount of searing excessive.  The story starts to lag a bit through the last third of the book.

When Grumpy Met Sunshine

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