A review by staticsandstationery
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Rhi is the powerful, brilliant, and sexy founder of the popular dating app, Crush, and Samson is the ex-NFL player turned spokesperson for her rival company. They've hooked up once (thanks to her own app), and it left them both with a whole mix of emotions. Without knowing who the other is, they both attend a tech conference and end up meeting up for the first time since That Night. They're forced into closer proximity to one another as they decide to take a leap that will help both of their companies, and that goes, well, exactly how you'd expect it to when two people have known each other as intimately as they have.

I loved both of them. Rhi started as a boss babe who never slept with the same man twice (a trauma response to her last serious relationship) who was then able to balance her professional life and her focus on her work and her career with her relationships - with her family, her friends, and with Samson. Samson was multidimensional and powerful, and while I originally found myself wishing he hadn't been a hulking ex-linebacker and had been the mildly geeky owner of a rival company, the added element of CTE and the death of both his father and his uncle was surprising. It added a wonderful level of depth to Samson that made him even more loveable.

They diversity of the characters in this book should definitely be acknowledged - there is completely wonderful representation of different races, different sexualities (okay we could have seen more of this, but it was there), and different levels of mental wellness. It was fascinating and fun and steamy as hell.
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