Veena’s review of Down With Love (Laws of Attraction, Book 1) by Kate Meader
Contemporary Romance published by Loveswept 07 Aug 18
A wedding planner and a divorce lawyer! This is a story made for bristling sexual tension, scintillating banter, and the inevitable fall. Another good one from Ms. Meader, though with a few surprise twists that I didn’t see coming.
Max Henderson is a divorce lawyer. He grew up wealthy but surrounded in love. His life experiences, however, have soured him on marriage and the happily ever after business. When he finds out that the woman he’s been eye fucking in a bar is a wedding planner his younger brother has hired to plan his wedding of the year, he’s taken aback – but not enough to give up his pursuit of sexy times with her.
Charlie Love came from a foster home background, until she found the foster parents who made her believe in love and happily ever after. She desperately wants her own love story, especially because she brings a bride’s dreams alive on their wedding day. Max, with his cynical attitude toward love and romance, does not fit into what she’s looking for, but the sexual tension between them is off the charts.
Max, for all his hard-bitten exterior, is a marshmallow inside, as evidenced by his gym and punching bag with mission impossible masks to allow his clients to release their anguish and pain and get all they can from their cheating spouses. He’s also dedicated in his pursuit of Charlie, and I really like the small touches like the read- to-cook meals for her parents and other thoughtful gifts.
All in all, a great start to a new series from the author. I can’t wait to see Max’s partners get their comeuppance.
Grade: A
Summary:
Sparks fly when the hot-shot divorce lawyer meets the high-powered wedding planner. The only question is, what kind?If you ever get married, remember my name: Max Henderson. In my line of work, you acquire a certain perspective on supposedly everlasting unions. . . .
1. Pre-nups are your friend.
2. The person you married is not the person you’re divorcing.
3. And I hope you didn’t spend much on the wedding because that was one helluva waste of hard-earned cash, wasn’t it?But some guys are willing to take a chance. Like my brother, who thinks he’s going to ride off into the sunset with the woman of his dreams in a haze of glitter on unicorns. And the wedding planner—the green-eyed beauty who makes a living convincing suckers to shell out thousands of dollars on centerpieces—is raking it in on this matrimonial monstrosity.
The thing is, Charlie Love is not unlike me. We’re both cogs in the wedding-industrial complex. As the best man, I know her game—and I can play it better than her. But after one scorching, unexpected kiss, I’m thinking I might just want to get played.
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