A review by laicsouza
The Wrong Mr. Right by Stephanie Archer

Did not finish book. Stopped at 83%.

Huuum, it is not a bad book, but I didn't connect with the characters enough.

Also, I don't like forced postponing of sex when the characters are all grown up, have their own houses and live in the current, real world. There is nothing stopping them from doing what they want to do. At the same time, sex is more than just penetration, so let's be real: they just think they are postponing something.

The author did make a more original twist of the makeover of the bookish, nerd girl, less of a "take the glasses off, omg she is hot", but it always gets to me that these girls are all very in the beauty standard. I don't think that anything from her past would justify such low self-esteem. Also, the smut could be hotter, I think - and I don't mean kinkier because you don't need explicit scenes to make a book hot.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

The main character lost a parent before the timeline started.

She takes care of her mother's bookstore, which her father kept exactly the same for a decade. Now, it is under her care, and she goes through a personal change while changing the bookstore, still trying to pay homage to her mother.

So she deals with her loss and grief in different parts of the book.