Review: The Foxe & The Hound by R.S. Grey
SYNOPSIS:
When your life is a hot mess at twenty, it’s cute. At twenty-seven… well, not so much.
It’s just that my lofty dreams—making it as a real estate agent, paying rent on time, showering daily—have stayed just that: dreams. Oh, and love? I’ve decided love might be a little ambitious for me at the moment. Instead, I’ve settled for the two guys who will never leave me: Ben & Jerry.
That is until Dr. Adam Foxe takes up residence as the town’s new vet.
With his strong jaw, easy confidence, and form-fitting scrubs, it’s not long before every housewife in Hamilton is dragging neglected tomcats in for weekly checkups.
Like everyone else, I’m intrigued. Even after I spoil my chance at a good first impression, he still offers me a proposition I can’t refuse: play his girlfriend at a family function and he’ll hire me as his real estate agent. Welcome to love in the 21st century.
It’s too bad I underestimated Adam’s irresistible charm and the undeniable attraction that burns between us. The day he pins me to the wall and silences me with a kiss, the line between reality and ruse begins to blur. Every teasing touch brings me to my knees. Every kiss promises more.
It looks like my hot mess of a life is about to get a little hotter.
REVIEW:
I liked this book, but I didn’t love it. The cover and the synopsis really sucked me in, I thought Madeleine was going to be the relate-able 20-something soul-sister I have been looking for, but that wasn’t the case. While it’s true Madeleine is an absolute hot mess and Adam is all the levels of swoony, for some reason I couldn’t get into the story.
Maybe because the first kiss didn’t happen till 40-some-percent and I was getting impatient and annoyed. While I appreciate a slow burn, this was just taking too long and it felt like these two were dancing around each other. Or maybe it was because Madeleine and Adams’ relationship seems really vague and filled with lust. I felt like these two never got to actually know each other. There was no substance to their relationship other than annoyance and sizzling hot make-outs. Or maybe because when Adam and Madeleine finally get together, she seems to be out to destruct their relationship before it even beings and Adam is so slow to respond that a lot of their relationship hangs in miscommunications.
Alternatively, my issues could have been with the fact that what were supposed to be funny, laugh-out-loud moments had me cringing because I would die of mortification if half the things that happened to Madeleine, happened to me. Or finally, my grievances might lie in the fact that after Adam and Madeleine work through everything, all the issues in Madeleine’s life magically disappear. As in like a chapter turn around everything suddenly vanishes and it wrapped up far too abruptly for my liking. Definitely a miss in my R.S. Grey read-a-thon.
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