Then we have the shy, innocent, intelligent (ahem), stunningly beautiful-but-doesn’t-know-it dog groomer (who knows nothing about the profession I do wish the author bothered to do even a smidgen of research) young woman with a hurt heart, who needs someone just like the actor to teach her how to love… Gag. He doesn’t like the celeb life and just wants a normal girl to settle down with in his small house (since that’s better for the environment, cough, cough), and oh, yes he can cook like a dream because (of course) he trained as a chef for a movie role. The male “lead” is a handsome, hot, muscled, and world-famous actor who’s not only kinder & more charitable than anyone else in the world, but is intelligent, incredibly thoughtful, romantic, and the best kisser on the planet. This book sounded like it was written by a starry-eyed and celebrity-mad 12-year old, with a shopworn plot and all the clichés one would expect I’m astounded a book like this was published, since I’ve always heard it is very difficult finding an agent who will represent you, much less a publishing house to take notice of your work. Or perhaps she was just as bored with the story as I, and wanted to be done with it, STAT. It also appears that she was told the faster she read, the higher her bonus. The narrator’s voice is twenty+ years too old for this character. As for that cue-the-orchestra-and-roll-credits happy ending? It might take more than practice to make it perfect. But there’s another hitch they weren’t betting on. What odds does romance have without that momentous, stupendous, once-in-a-lifetime first smooch? Patient, empathetic, and carrying personal burdens of his own, Noah suggests a remedy: they rehearse. No way Noah’s giving up on her, even if his affectionate pursuit comes with a bump: Juliet has a pathological fear of kissing and the disappointments that follow. She’s pretty and unpretentious, loves his dog, and is not a worshipping fan. Tongue-tied and toes curling in her pink Converse, she pretends that she doesn’t have a clue who he is. It’s one of Hollywood’s biggest nights when she volunteers as a seat filler and winds up next to movie heartthrob Noah freaking Douglas. The meet-cute award goes to dog groomer Juliet Nolan. That’s the hiccup in a warm and witty romance by the bestselling author of Roommaid. The movie star and the dog groomer are one kiss away from the perfect love story.
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