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The 24 Hour Dating Agency by Mary Jayne Baker
3.0
3.25/5
The 24 Hour Dating Agency is a book with a promising premise, with Dr Sheldrake hooking you up with the perfect partner for a sizeable fee of £500 (plus £50 deposit). Three friends and colleagues take the plunge, with a varying degree of success.
It’s a romance, so of course there are plenty of happily ever afters but I feel that the HEAs overshadowed the dating agency. Safie, Tamara and Milo had great potential to be well-defined characters but by lumping them into one book together I feel like I didn’t really know them. So much was left unsaid, and only a minute portion of the novel focussed on the 24 hour dates.
I thoroughly enjoyed the characterisation (Tamara was definitely my fave of the three friends) but I was left a litter underwhelmed in that I never truly got to know any of them deeply enough.
Thanks to NetGalley and Head of Zeus for the ARC.
The 24 Hour Dating Agency is a book with a promising premise, with Dr Sheldrake hooking you up with the perfect partner for a sizeable fee of £500 (plus £50 deposit). Three friends and colleagues take the plunge, with a varying degree of success.
It’s a romance, so of course there are plenty of happily ever afters but I feel that the HEAs overshadowed the dating agency. Safie, Tamara and Milo had great potential to be well-defined characters but by lumping them into one book together I feel like I didn’t really know them. So much was left unsaid, and only a minute portion of the novel focussed on the 24 hour dates.
I thoroughly enjoyed the characterisation (Tamara was definitely my fave of the three friends) but I was left a litter underwhelmed in that I never truly got to know any of them deeply enough.
Thanks to NetGalley and Head of Zeus for the ARC.