A review by sonny
Charming You by Kris Jayne

4.0

Our two MCs have a sort of meet-cute moment - her car has a dead battery and she is in a parking garage waiting for a tow, he works in her building and has a set of jumper cables. He gives her his business card and says she "owes him a drink".

Micky is recently dumped by a guy who lied to her about being married, and she hasn't had much luck with good, decent boyfriends.

When she lets her friends know who saved her dead car battery, she learns that Nick is engaged. Since it's just drinks, when she goes out with him, she learns he's actually been recently separated from his girlfriend/fiancee almost 4-months ago and she refuses to talk to him.

Still she is wary of him and upset with his laid-back attitude about women, in general.

There is a weird back-n-forth between our MCs, until we learn that Nick may have his girlfriend/fiancee back, after all. She does need to talk to him about a sensitive situation.

Nick is also...a "social climber"; he comes from a poor-to-middle class background and wants to bump elbows with rich folks, so he is in business with his sometimes on-sometimes off girlfriend/fiancee's father.

Nick is a lawyer in a huge firm and deals with mergers and acquisitions...and unfortunately when things go south with his ON/OFF Ex and he starts seeing Micky...he also had wanted to use her to get some information about the company she worked for who was in the middle of a possible merger or a buyout.

Here is where the Drama Angst picks up because Nick can't pull his head from his ass before he f*cks shit up with Nicky... she learns of his lies and deceptions but eh, this is called "Charming You" and Nick does charm his way back into Micky's good graces.

Frankly, hmm...I needed a lot more groveling and away-time from him. He was doing a ton of underhanded shady shit in front of her face while also sleeping with her, which means he was slowly but surely sabotaging HER LIFE & CAREER...and also, because of a secret situation with his On/Off Ex he was still keeping her in his life where she was still saying BS about their engagement & possible wedding...ugh, men are insufferable bastards...