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A review by agiali
Fool Me Once by Ashley Winstead
5.0
"Tell me how to keep you."
"I think you have me."
I did not think a romance book featuring democrats working in politics would be a book I'd read, let alone enjoy, but here I am.
Fool Me Once follows Lee "Stoner" Stone, the head of communications at a green electric car business that is miles better than Tesla, and a woman who has had four heartbreaks in her life and has sworn off falling in love with men, but not falling into bed with them. Her goal is to turn her home state, Texas, from red to blue and she believes that her bill, "The Green Machine" can do so. The Green Machine bill will initially be expensive but will help the environment heavily. Lee wants every cop car, ambulance, bus, etc. to become electric.
What Lee doesn't know is the governor has hired someone who knew, specifically her fourth and final heartbreak, Ben Laderman. Yet this heartbreak was different than the others, she broke him so much that he fled Texas five years ago and never returned... until now! Both must now work together and try to put their past feelings behind them, but what if those feelings never left?
Your honor, I loved this book. This book has a 3.55 on Goodreads and I don't understand why. I mean, I do, Stoner did some pretty shitty things in the past which I normally would not be a fan of, but I found her and Ben's character development to show they have moved and grown as people to not really be bothered by what happened five years ago.
This book had CHARACTER. The way it was written was like I was in Stoner's head. I felt like I knew her and oftentimes romance books don't write in the way Ashley Winstead chose to do here. Winstead made her characters have the BEST banter and they were actually funny. I couldn't get enough of them and their constant tension with each other.
While I did find some of the fighting they did to be stupid, I don't generally mind anything that happens to make the 3rd act have angst.
PLS READ THISSSS. I also didn't realize Winstead's other romance book, The Boyfriend Candidate follows Stoner's little sister, Alexis and I LOVE HER so much so I'm ITCHING to pick that up!!
"I think you have me."
I did not think a romance book featuring democrats working in politics would be a book I'd read, let alone enjoy, but here I am.
Fool Me Once follows Lee "Stoner" Stone, the head of communications at a green electric car business that is miles better than Tesla, and a woman who has had four heartbreaks in her life and has sworn off falling in love with men, but not falling into bed with them. Her goal is to turn her home state, Texas, from red to blue and she believes that her bill, "The Green Machine" can do so. The Green Machine bill will initially be expensive but will help the environment heavily. Lee wants every cop car, ambulance, bus, etc. to become electric.
What Lee doesn't know is the governor has hired someone who knew, specifically her fourth and final heartbreak, Ben Laderman. Yet this heartbreak was different than the others, she broke him so much that he fled Texas five years ago and never returned... until now! Both must now work together and try to put their past feelings behind them, but what if those feelings never left?
Your honor, I loved this book. This book has a 3.55 on Goodreads and I don't understand why. I mean, I do, Stoner did some pretty shitty things in the past which I normally would not be a fan of, but I found her and Ben's character development to show they have moved and grown as people to not really be bothered by what happened five years ago.
This book had CHARACTER. The way it was written was like I was in Stoner's head. I felt like I knew her and oftentimes romance books don't write in the way Ashley Winstead chose to do here. Winstead made her characters have the BEST banter and they were actually funny. I couldn't get enough of them and their constant tension with each other.
While I did find some of the fighting they did to be stupid, I don't generally mind anything that happens to make the 3rd act have angst.
PLS READ THISSSS. I also didn't realize Winstead's other romance book, The Boyfriend Candidate follows Stoner's little sister, Alexis and I LOVE HER so much so I'm ITCHING to pick that up!!