A review by readingwithhippos
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
4.0
Alisha Rai is an auto-buy author for me. I don’t care what she writes, I just know I want to read it. And The Right Swipe is really good--I won’t be surprised if this is the book that catapults her fully into romance author stardom. It’s different in tone from her previous Forbidden Hearts trilogy--while it still deals with realistic issues, in this case workplace harassment and brain injury in NFL players, there’s less of an edge. Which admittedly will likely make it more palatable for a wide audience, although I have to admit I really enjoy the thread of darkness that some of her earlier work has.
In this book, Rhiannon is CEO of a dating app company, and Samson is a former professional football player and current public face of one of Rhiannon’s competitors. When they see each other professionally, it’s a little awkward because they hooked up one night a while back and afterwards, he ghosted her. I didn’t 100% feel the chemistry between Rhiannon and Samson, unfortunately, maybe because there was so much external conflict going on for both of them? It was a little disappointing because chemistry between the leads is something I thought Rai got so perfectly right in the Forbidden Hearts series. Anyway, this one doesn’t go to the top of my personal favorites list, but I hope it leads to lots of commercial success for the author because I really want her to keep writing.
In this book, Rhiannon is CEO of a dating app company, and Samson is a former professional football player and current public face of one of Rhiannon’s competitors. When they see each other professionally, it’s a little awkward because they hooked up one night a while back and afterwards, he ghosted her. I didn’t 100% feel the chemistry between Rhiannon and Samson, unfortunately, maybe because there was so much external conflict going on for both of them? It was a little disappointing because chemistry between the leads is something I thought Rai got so perfectly right in the Forbidden Hearts series. Anyway, this one doesn’t go to the top of my personal favorites list, but I hope it leads to lots of commercial success for the author because I really want her to keep writing.