Blackstone
113 pages
3 ⭐⭐⭐
Trevor Blackstone has been working on a dream real estate development for the rich by the ocean. There’s only one eye-sore house left to tear down, but he doesn’t feel like waiting until the end of summer like the contract states. Instead, he’s determined to convince the woman living there, Lucy, to sign ASAP and let him be done with it. But Lucy refuses to give in, and soon enough, Trevor has more important things on his mind than tearing down a crummy house.
This was a safe read; no OW/OM after the characters met. The plot was pretty straightforward: 45y/o hero with a tendency to constantly do math in his head falls for the 27y/o heroine that is only in town until the end of summer, when she has to return to her jobless life back home.
I liked Lucy. She was pretty straightforward and at times, funny. She was a little immature, but I think it fit her character well. Trevor was ok. He was a single father to a 21y/o son that’s never on page, so I personally found the “single father” bit in the blurb misleading. He had a weird relationship with his ex-wife that made me uncomfortable, even though *SPOILER* she left him for another woman. It was just an odd situation that I wouldn’t know what to expect because it’s not very common. Trevor was sweet when he wanted to be, but his cruelty shadowed that sweetness.
Biggest problem for me was how many plot points got dropped. The most important ones: We never find out what was in Lucy’s grandmother’s letter. At one point, Trevor is under the impression that Lucy is seeing someone else and he explodes, but that never gets cleared up. They just go on as if that scene never happened.
It was an entertaining, light read, but it could’ve been better constructed.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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