
Sypnosis
There are three things you need to know about Kat Tanner (aka Kathleen Tyson. . . and yes, she is *that* Kathleen Tyson): 1) She’s determined to make good decisions, 2) She must get married ASAP, and 3) She knows how to knit.
Being a billionaire heiress isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Determined to live a quiet life, Kat Tanner changed her identity years ago and eschewed her family’s legacy. But now, Kat’s silver spoon past has finally caught up with her, and so have her youthful mistakes.
To avoid imminent disaster, she must marry immediately; it is essential that the person she chooses have no romantic feelings for her whatsoever and be completely trustworthy. Fortunately, she knows exactly who to ask. Dan O’Malley checks all the boxes: single, romantically indifferent to her, completely trustworthy. Sure, she might have a wee little crush on Dan the Security Man, but with clear rules, expectations, and a legally binding contract, Kat is certain she can make it through this debacle with her sanity—and heart—all in one piece.
Except, what happens when Dan O’Malley isn’t as indifferent—or as trustworthy—as she thought?
★★★★★ Goodreads Choice Award Semi-Finalist for Best Romance ★★★★★
Review
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Writing: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hero: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Heroine: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
HEA
Spice level: 3/5
Genre: Contemporary romance, slow burn
Trope: Marriage of convenience
Possible Triggers: N/A
This was my second Penny Reid book. I should have started from the first book of this series but the title captured my attention and I have read one of PR’s books before, maybe around 2017 and I remember I enjoyed it. I don’t know why I haven’t picked up more of her books. When I read this, I knew I was going to start the series from the beginning and read all of the books.
Kat’s cousin is after her and wanting to get her checked into a mental institute to get a hold of her inheritance as her guardian. Now she must do something drastic and quick to stop that. So, she first asks her friend Steven, but he’s got a new boyfriend.
Now the idea is to ask Dan, the security man. The man she’s been thinking about for 2 years, secretly admiring and maybe loving.
I loved Kat. She has been through a lot and she’s trying her best. The background with her parents and her past, the way she’s overcome all of that just makes you see how much hard work she’d put in to change her life around. She is a multi-billionaire who’s doing a normal job and away from the limelight. Not everyone knows she’s the heiress.
Given what she’s been through, it is understandable. I really did feel for Kat, the pressure of being an heiress, the money, the fame that comes with it, the obligations she has as the only daughter of her father and the obligation to her father’s business just makes it seem like she has a lot on her shoulders.
She must think of everything twice, thrice before she does any actions. She’s been hesitant and afraid to do anything that might seem out of the ordinary because she’s always been afraid of showing signs of MH. Her mother had been diagnosed and she’s always been disregarded by her father as he seemed to think she’s going to be diagnosed one day as well. I did detest her father, I don’t care that the man is on his death bed, I hated how he’d treated her and the path she’d chosen because of his negligence.
I have not read the previous stories so I’m not sure how she’s been portrayed but here she seems sweet, quiet and innocent. She eats a lot of cheese, especially when she’s stressed and she’s always in her head. Contemplating and mulling things over before she’d say or do something. When she’s stressed out, just give the woman some cheese. I loved her internal thoughts before she comes out with saying what she wants to say.
Dan the security man. He seems broody and all serious from his job. But pull him out of it, he had an easy, going personality and I found him to be quite hilarious. Some of things he pondered and even said aloud just make it funnier. I loved his mother, Eleanor O’Malley. His scenes with his mother were funny, especially when he’d forgotten her birthday and wondered how to come up with excuses. When he’d finally made the call, the way Eleanor informed him that she thought he was lying in a ditch somewhere and had Father Matthew on standby to give him his last rites because he’d forgotten to call was just too funny.
When I read the background on his family, I sympathised with Dan. He himself has had a disaster of a childhood, despite his mother’s efforts of raising them wonderfully. His cheating father, then his older brother (step brother - spawn of his father with mistress) being so wayward and hurting the family over the years. He should’ve been looking up to his elder brother, Seamus should have been a role model instead he had dragged Dan down and Dan ended up going to prison and doing time for something he’d done when he’d been young. Dan changed and he just turned into this inspiration.
“I swear Seamus was conceived by @nal sex. There’s no other explanation for him being such an asshole.”
I loved getting his perspective and he is equally fond of Kat or in his words, Kit Kat. He’s been crushing on her but was crushed when she’d told him during a drunk stupor, she didn’t know how to do monogamy or something, he took that to mean she’s polyamorous.
Since then, he’s been disappointed, he wasn’t against it, but he wasn’t into polygamy.
In the next moment, his mouth hooked upward and he pushed away from the wall, sauntering toward me. Instinctively, I took two steps back.
“Kit-Kat.” He wagged a finger at me, like I’d been naughty. “You liked me.”
“You liked me, you just said so,” I volleyed back, the words sounding like an accusation.
“I did.” His grin grew and his voice deepened. “And I do.”
Oh.
Okay.
Here we go.
It was so hilarious when it came down to the court where they registered the marriage and Kat found this out. The scenes were hilarious. Especially when they’re kissing and tended to go overboard, and Steven had to tap Dan’s shoulder to remind them the minister is getting late to go pick up his granddaughter.
Dan’s use of the word Fck all the time. He is so hilarious. He made a whole sentence using that word as the subject, object, verb and adjective. 😂 The things he’d be willing to do for Kat, even if it was some kink of hers to see him zip tied to a metal chair and his hands cuffed and eating pancakes – which is not her kink but a situation he’d ended up in.
“I told you we should have used the taser.”
“But then he would have shit his pants,” John motioned to my pants. “Look at those pants. Those are nice pants.”
“Yeah,” I agreed, “I don’t want to shit these pants. I like these pants. The pockets are deceptively roomy.”
“I said, you fckfaced shitstain,”—his words were low, slow, measured— “get the fck away from her, or I will fcking fckily fck you the fck up.”
I stared at Dan, my lips parting in wonder. He’d just used some variation of the F-word as a noun, verb, adverb, and adjective all in one sentence. I didn’t know whether to be mortified or impressed.”
The story had a lot going on and it was such a fun read. I did switch between my kindle and audible app since I was listening to it as well. Dan’s chapters in Audible, narrated by Stephen Dexter made it funny. Especially when he did the internal monologues of Dan.
I loved the knitting group, the things they’d discuss was just funny. I am so looking forward to reading the series from the beginning and reading each book.
Everyone needs a friend who can bring them tears and abdominal pain with funny stories.
Edited by Queen0fDarkness - 2 years ago