Title: Arrange Me
(Arrange Me Duo #1)
Author: Katy Regnery
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Blurb
My name is Courtney Jane Salinger...
and I'm sick of games.
Sick of the Friday night bar-scene-cum-meat-market.
Sick of the boy-girl, man-woman, mars-venus, flirtation-without-expectation, game-playing nonsense.
Sick of awful dates and one-night stands, booty calls and guys who don’t call back, mixed messages or NO messages and—and—and...I'm sick of all of it.
I’m done.
I just can't do it anymore.
It's too hard, and worse: little by little, it's making me hard.
It's breaking my heart.
What do I want?
That's easy.
I want a house in suburbia with a white picket fence.
I want babies to buckle into a minivan.
But most of all, I want to be married.
I want a husband.
So I've made an important decision: I'm making my escape from the dating world and the single life.
I've filled out my application on ArrangeMe.com and I'm putting my fate into the hands of experts.
Is it a little scary?
Sure.
I mean, I have no idea who I'll end up with.
After all, I'm planning to marry a complete stranger.
But between you and me?
I can't wait.
Being arranged can't possibly be worse than being single.
Can it?
Caroline's Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Overall, I enjoyed this story. The premise of it was somewhat unusual but you could see the story progression quite early on, but nonetheless, the journey was pretty good.
"I want to be saved from another minute of living my disappointing, frustrating, soul-killing single life."
Courtney Salinger is a successful career woman from a wealthy family who is fed up with dating duds. A eureka moment has her announcing that she's finished with dating and planning to find a man to marry. A TV show has her signing up to Arrange Me Too - a matchmaking service that will find her a husband, who she'll meet for the very first time on her wedding day.
"It's like I knew deep inside that you were my kryptonite, and I was trying to protect myself."
Josh Dalton is a struggling playwright who works as a bartender to make ends meet. He's living day to day to make his dream come true. He's nowhere near ready to settle down. He's known Courtney as a customer and sort-of-friend for about a year. She's the one customer he never flirts with but he's fond of her. When the word marriage passes her lips, he's suddenly seeing her with new eyes.
"I wonder if it's possible that my attraction to Courtney - my fierce gravitational pull to be near her, to both possess and belong to her - could prove stronger than my dreams."
What I liked about this story was that Josh and Courtney certainly had more than a frisson of chemistry between them. The more time they spent in each other's company, the more the tension simmered between them, which I found really exciting. I loved their connection and their shared interests. I liked that she didn't look down on him considering the difference in their social stations. If anything, she thought he was out of her league in terms of attractiveness. Courtney is down-to-earth but determined and stubborn once her mind is made up, whereas Josh is actually more sensible about their budding relationship. However, he came across as impulsive with his about-turn but I liked his resolution and commitment going forward.
I hadn't appreciated that this was a duo! LOL. So I was coming to the end of the story and wondering how it was going to end. It ends on something of a cliffhanger and I'm looking forward to seeing how things pan out between them.
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