Take a photo of a barcode or cover
halffast 's review for:
Mr. Masters
by T.L. Swan
2.5 stars rounded down for GR. Single father has the hots for his live-in nanny, but they can't find happiness together because he's vowed to never get married again. The beginning of this book was rough. Both main characters were really difficult to like. Brielle lied on her resume and bumbled her way through every encounter with Julian and his kids with completely unrealistic, over-the-top reactions that were packaged as "honesty." Then she "faked it til she make'd it" and suddenly everyone was falling over themselves for her. Julian acts more like a frat boy than a 39-year-old judge. Things slowly improve as Brielle chills out and she and Julian become intimate. The steamy scenes are good but repetitive. I liked the conflict with Willow, and it was heartbreaking to see how much of a hold Julian's dead wife had over him and he didn't even realize it until it was almost too late. But the good bits at the end couldn't overcome the stuff that irked me, particularly the formatting problems that made it hard to follow who was speaking.