Love the One You're With (Stiletto, #2)

4 LOVED UP STARS Lauren Layne I heart you and your gorgeously romantic books ...

Ladies there's a new batchelor in town. Prepare yourselves to fall in love with one charming, delectable character. Welcome to 'Love the one you're with' a story about finding love where you least expected to. Lauren Layne is fast approaching my favourite find of this year, and I'm confessing right now that I would stalk any of her new releases like a true addict should. Here are my book thoughts ... What's it all about?

Grace Brighton is expected to know all about love, lust, make up's, break up's, cheating boyfriends, husbands especially finances. As one of the 'it girls' of stiletto magazine Grace is the leading lady of relationship advice, so it comes as a huge shock when she realises that her own love live is not as squeaky clean as she would like. So with a broken heart and ego grace sets off to prove to the world (and herself) that she has what it takes to play the relationship field. First assignment: date her rival, Jake Malone. Jake knows the kind of man he is, no ties, no commitments and definitely no falling in love with the snooty, confident Grace Brighton but after just one date these two rivals realise they may be falling a little harder than anticipated. What did I love?

Lauren Layne is the queen of romantic treats, her books are the best kind of 'let me escape' books. Her style is easy going and sweet but all her books are written with class and heart. This series is perfect for my reading tastes, comfortable predictability with enough enjoyable story line and sexy steam to make it a well rounded romantic journey. The story delivers a 'rivals to more/I'm not sure I like you, let alone love you' spin on a traditional love story, the characters are all likeable and each play their own parts to perfection. This author writes some of the best sexual chemistry and this book is no exception the connection between Jake and Grace made me sit up and take notice and I was cheering for the duo from Start to finish, speaking of the finishing line if perfectly written endings are your addiction then this book will leave you with the biggest smile on your romance addict face. Jake Malone is one dreamy, handsome character he combines sweet with clueless and I was crazy for his point of view, nothing grabs my reading attention than getting the whole picture of the story and adding this element to the story meant there was added humour and meaning to the couples relationship. Grace Brighton although not my favourite character in this series was relatable with her insecurities but the author didn't labour on this characters short comings and was quick to develop Grace into a character who grew to be loveable. The author has a consistency of plot line no strange twists or unnecessary drama included here, just 200 plus pages of pure reading indulgence. All in all I was swept up in this scrumptious love saga and i'm more than happy to recommend this series to love addicts, just like me. Why not five?

I wanted a bit more (let's face it I can't get enough of this authors writing) I was getting into the flow of reading and I felt it was all over a bit too quickly, I didn't connect with the heroine in this book as much as previous, but you're not going to find too much complaint from me about this series, it just missed the five star mark by a fraction and I'm eagerly awaiting more from this author. Final thoughts ...

If you love your romance stories to be full of sweet and sexy then you must add Lauren Layne's book to your 'I need to read those books' pile. I am such a fan and I am happy to declare Lauren Layne as my favourite author of 2013. 'Love the one you're with' is the second of a series and it did not fail to deliver the romantic fix I badly needed. The future looks bright for the continuation of the series with other delightful characters lined up to take the limelight. I can't recommend this author enough. Go grab it readers, enjoy ... Kisses.

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