A review by reading_rainy
Close by Laurelin Paige
4.0
I’m gonna go with 3.5 stars rounded up for Nick’s overall sweetness. Nick has to be the most sensitive alpha (ish) hero I’ve read in a long time. He is twenty-three and has been in a band since his early teens. He’s lived quite a life in those 23 years.
Natalia (36) has molded her acting career and now she’s an expert at keeping everyone at a distance. She’s Hollywood’s good girl...but the moment she meets Nick she wants to be a little bad.
I had mixed emotions reading this. Nat is obnoxiously immature for being thirty-six. She can’t make up her mind and waffles back and forth on her ‘relationship’ with Nick. They started out as simply a fling, but they both eventually want more. I disliked how the author tries to make Nick a white-knight kind of hero, but then slips in every now and then how he’s had ‘much kinkier sex with other women’ or ‘the threesomes he’s enjoyed in the past’. It was like she was struggling with making him a bad boy, but also a good boy? It didn’t fit his overall attitude throughout the story. Nick has been half in love with Nat since he was a young man, watching her movies, and dreaming of what it would be like to be with her.
Nick felt SO MUCH love for Nat before she was even willing to admit she liked him. She just kept pushing him away. And she It wasn’t until the end of the story, that they finally became a couple. Thank goodness for the epilogue.
Natalia (36) has molded her acting career and now she’s an expert at keeping everyone at a distance. She’s Hollywood’s good girl...but the moment she meets Nick she wants to be a little bad.
I had mixed emotions reading this. Nat is obnoxiously immature for being thirty-six. She can’t make up her mind and waffles back and forth on her ‘relationship’ with Nick. They started out as simply a fling, but they both eventually want more. I disliked how the author tries to make Nick a white-knight kind of hero, but then slips in every now and then how he’s had ‘much kinkier sex with other women’ or ‘the threesomes he’s enjoyed in the past’. It was like she was struggling with making him a bad boy, but also a good boy? It didn’t fit his overall attitude throughout the story. Nick has been half in love with Nat since he was a young man, watching her movies, and dreaming of what it would be like to be with her.
Nick felt SO MUCH love for Nat before she was even willing to admit she liked him. She just kept pushing him away. And she