Reviews

Tempted by the Billionaire Next Door by Therese Beharrie

breadedbookpages's review

4.0

i enjoyed this book. there was a lot of conversation in which the main characters jess and dylan got to know each other beyond what she of him from her best friend and he got to know how she was in spite of how tangled her life was with his without his knowing. i liked that there was a lot of talk of healing. his relationship with his sister was something he wanted to work at to fix while jess knew her and her parents didn't have to work things out but she wanted to try at her own pace in the future for the sake of her family.

one thing that bugged me is the cis centering speak they used when talking of the baby jess carried. the he or she and the girl or boy talk just discomforted me as a nonbinary reader. also, there was this comment about anja not fulfilling her role as a woman by getting pregnant that i thought was really unnecessary. she's not less of a woman for not being able to conceive a child.

olive2read's review

3.0

Lots of great feels in this. Does a great job of raising the question about what constitutes betrayal and how not-so-rational our feels can make us.

adelebuck's review

4.0

A short, sweet story about two people who usually run from conflict and learn to confront it.

kjcharles's review

A very sweet contemporary romance. Both MCs have screwed up family dynamics that affect them bdly and need unpicking, plus the heroine is being a surrogate mother and is pregnant with the hero's sister's baby which, it is acknowledged, is not a rational obstacle but is genuinely quite squick-making anyway so it works. Very emotional, with two hurt, lonely people taking careful steps towards trust and openness.