Robin Reviewer's Reviews > Sweet Distraction

Lackluster - read on KU

Tim (Timber) and Alice are both likable but they're both just kind of plain. The only excitement in the story is when Alice faints.

I was confused about his law firm. It takes up two floors of a high rise and has enough employees he can hire a full time chef who makes "hundreds" of muffins for breakfast the next day but he doesn't have any attorneys working for him that can handle a big client other than him and Juniper, a new attorney to his firm that seems to just now be handling sports law. What were the other attorneys doing since that seemed to be the focus of his firm?

And this is yet another book where the girl gets pregnant while on oral birth control. After she finds out she's pregnant, they work out that she missed a day. When you take birth control pills, you know you missed a day when you go to take one the next day. It's been less than a decade since I quit taking them and I know they keep lowering doses but I can't count how many times I missed a pill and took it the next day. Maybe it has changed but taking 1 pill late wasn't a concern if you took it by the time you were taking the next one. Missing 2 meant using condoms till the next pack. My husband and I got pregnant so very easily and if it was that easy to get pregnant from taking a pill late, we would have had a baker's dozen. When authors go this route, they need to at least have them take a medicine that interferes aside from antibiotics because everyone has finally learned those interfere.

I also don't like how Alice reacted to how Tim reacted. He was happy, well he didn't really show emotion but that's another problem with the book. He didn't do the crappy things men do sometimes in life or books such as accuse her of trapping him, being angry, or running away from the situation. She got mad at him because he instantly went into overlapping mode and decided how a lot of things would go. While I wouldn't have agreed with him, she didn't even try to back him up and explain they ended to make decisions together. She just kicked him out of her house.


Speaking of her house, she and at least one of her brothers lives at home still. She just has finished school, so that one I get but I'm not sure that her married sister, her husband, and their kids don't live there, too, and possibly her other brother. And their father.

This book was very dry. The sex scenes were extremely bland. The most enjoyment I got out of this was reading what Alice did to make her job her own. There really could have been a lot more about that. Her father's company did the remodel for a larger eating area and bigger kitchen. Tim could have gotten to know him a little while he was there to work. More details could have been given.

From the time they started something until they found out she was pregnant, they didn't talk through the week but only on the weekends. I understand him not needing the distraction but they didn't have a single phone call between them that wasn't about work and then only one of those. There were no sweet or sexy texts. It was just cold. There wasn't anything romantic about it.

I had really hoped to have found a new author but I will not be reading more by this author.