A review by momodesu
Tempting Olivia by Clare Ashton

4.5

I enjoyed Tempting Olivia even more than the first book in the series, Meeting Millie, which I liked quite a bit. Some of that was because the majority of the core characters had already been introduced, so there was less need for background and character development and more time to devote to the story itself. I liked Olivia before, but getting to see her story develop was great, and Kate? Oh, Kate. She was so lovely. There is a third act breakup in this one, which I'm not always the biggest fan of, but it made sense in this story and I think it was necessary given the context. I won't be doing any spoiling here, but I'm REALLY looking forward to the hinted third installment of this series.

The writing style differentiating between the two women's point of views was particularly well done. The only real complaint I had was that, although the issues I had with punctuation in Meeting Millie were largely resolved in the first half of the book, it got a bit worse as it went on—including a couple of pretty glaring grammatical errors. It could have used a(nother?) pass through a proofreader.