A review by mobena
Mortgage of Convenience by Dani McLean

3.0

The cover for this book and really caught me and I was so excited to read it! It has so many of my favorite tropes (friends to lovers, brothers best friend, closed proximity, age gap), but unfortunately it fell a bit flat for me. 

Bee is back home to retreat from a huge career move to lick her wounds, and doesn’t want to let anyone know what’s going on. She runs into her childhood crush - her brother’s best friend, Sebastian, who somehow she ends up buying a house with, something both of them need at the moment.

I liked Bee, but I found it really hard to relate to her. She’s a closeted clean freak and semi introverted/closed off - but after years of not seeing Seb, she randomly decided to buy a house with him? I felt like there were some inconsistencies within her character, esp with her relationship with Morgan and Aiden.

I liked the representation that Seb stood for, but felt like his character wasn’t as explored as much as it could have been - the stuff with the house, his dad, it was mentioned a few times, but felt like there could have been a bit more of a deep dive into it,

I also felt like the relationship between Bee and Seb was rushed - yes they’ve known each other for years and the communication was AMAZING but even the transition to their first spicy scene, I thought I missed a page or two because it felt so rushed/random to me. 

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions are my own.