What's a girl to do when a man who's countless shades of wrong feels oh-so-right?
SYNOPSIS
Ambitious book editor Asha Tate is a hopeless romantic. Despite her mediocre track record with men, she believes in swooning, sighing, and the everlasting love of true soul mates. Sure, sex is okay, but she’s not someone who’s ever been driven by her animal urges.
Until now.
When Asha stumbles upon the scorching hot Instagram feed of someone calling himself Professor Feelgood, she falls in lust for the first time. Not only is she left panting over the professor’s insane body, but his angst-filled poetry about losing his one true love speaks straight to her soul.
Desperately in need of a bestseller for her struggling publishing company, Asha knows the professor’s potential to sell to his millions of loyal followers could be the lifeline her bosses need. However, the ink is barely dry on a book deal before she realizes she’s made a terrible mistake. Sure, the professor is incredibly talented and sexier than any man has a right to be, but the man behind the persona isn’t at all who she pictured. In real life, he’s intense, arrogant and infuriating, and his uncanny ability to rub her the wrong way turns her dream project into a total nightmare.
Knowing that the professor is everything she doesn’t want in a man should help Asha ignore her occasional urges to mount him, but she quickly learns that explosive, unwanted chemistry can make even smart people do stupid things.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author of swoony, sexy, slow-burn romances. Fluent in sarcasm. Professional snuggler. Guacamole addict.
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REVIEW
Professor Feelgood by Leisa RayvenTitle: Professor Feelgood
Series: Masters of Love #2
Author: Leisa Rayven
Release date: September 16, 2018
Cliffhanger: No
Rating: 3.5 stars
Mister Romance, book one in the series was my first read by Leisa Rayven, and I felt an immediate connection to her writing. It's witty, it delves into the characters emotions intelligently, and the poetic style makes my romantic soul sing. Vivid, metaphorical writing draws me like a bee to honey. When an author has that in her arsenal, you can pretty much count on me being an instant fan. I also appreciate that she makes an effort to write an original plot. Even with well used tropes, she puts her own stamp on it, and makes everything remarkably fresh.
Rayven gives us a distinctive plot in this case with a mashup of friends to lovers, and friends to enemies themes.
Their progression goes kind of like:
friends-->enemies-->frenemies-->lovers.
There’s a saying that love is just friendship on fire, and it couldn’t be more true. Right now, I feel like I’m living in a burning building, and even though there’s a chance I’ll be burned to a crisp, I’m just sitting here roasting marshmallows and humming the chorus from “Disco Inferno” to drown out the sound of sirens.
Those dreams are now a nightmare of having to work with someone that she despises with every fiber of her being. I was on Asha's side all along, because the Professor was so arrogant and his viciousness seemed to be unwarranted. Then to my shock, I actually ended up jumping the fence over to his side when I understood where he was coming from. Did I think that he should have been a bigger person about it? Yes. But I finally understood him.
I was warned going in that the enemies portion takes up a huge chunk of the book, so I was prepared for the wait. Here's my biggest complaint. In order for me to feel invested in the romance, I need to see some hint of it sprinkled through the plot. There wasn't the barest shred of any feelings toward each other besides anger, hurt, and lashing out. Not even the internal dialogue gave me an inkling that she was struggling with sorting through an unwanted, long dormant attraction.
While I enjoyed their antagonism and quick snark up to a point, there were a lot of times where both of them were just being mean and that got old. Sometimes it was funny, but sometimes it was like two middle schoolers trading the sharpest insult they could to see who could dig the knife in the deepest. At what point do you decide to man/woman up and use communication skills like a mature adult?
Then when things started to shift towards the romance segment, it was very abrupt. She realizes she has feelings for him, and they move at the speed of light towards their HEA. Asha's personal conflict with her past relationship failures was resolved a little too conveniently, which just came to her like a lightbulb going off in her head. Her intimacy issues were resolved just from digging her head out of the sand? Here's the thing though: those 80 or so pages at the end? I had so many highlights, and so many swoons that I just wanted to completely let go of everything and embrace the sweetness of them falling.
“I love you,” I say, so only he can hear. “Thank you for choosing me.” He leans down and brushes his lips over mine. “Loving you isn’t a choice. It’s who I am. Don’t you know that by now?”
In the end, I enjoyed Leisa's snarky humor throughout, but I just wish that I could have at least felt some angst or slow burn for the first 75% of the book, and I honestly didn't. It was a solidly good read, but I was hoping for a little more. However, if you're looking for a fast-paced, entertaining story and you're a fan of either trope this book explores, this could be the book for you.
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