Title: The Love Plot
Author: Samantha Young
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 352
Genre: Romance
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Love Plot
Star Shine Meadow is a twenty-eight-year-old woman who knows what she wants: she wants to be happy. That is why she is a professional costume character actor and line sitter, when she plays Merida for a birthday party, she meets Rafe Whitman. Rafe is exactly the opposite. He comes from a wealthy family, is a vet, and is grumpy. But not much later Rafe offers Star a job for ten thousand dollars per month. The only thing Star has to do is to pretend to be his girlfriend. Rafe’s mother and sister are pushing him to be in a relationship, which will keep them away and can he relax.
Review
OMG. I just loved this book so much. It was cute and I sensed the chemistry between the two main characters. It had everything a romance book needs. It was also kind of hilarious thanks to Star. She was witty and was not ashamed of who she was. She only wants to be happy and does everything to make sure she is happy, even when it means she is following a non-traditional path.
I am still surprised that Rafe was paying Star a lot for this job. And by a lot, I mean a lot! Rafe was paying Star 10K per month for this job. That is insane, but I am secretly wondering if someone in real life would do this. If a guy like this exists, I am probably available. 10K for just pretending to be a date is crazy. I also wondered if line-sitting was a real job, turns out it is. I had never heard of it before, but maybe it is an American thing.
The story was cute, although the first half of the book was my favorite part. Star was more being herself and I liked that version of her. In the second half Star was pretending to be someone else to be liked by Rafe’s family. I hated it. It was also lacking the chemistry I was feeling in the first half. Normally in two books, there is one big fight and then they make up. In this book, there were two fights. Sometimes they went weeks without talking to each other. I hated that. So yeah, the first half of the book was my favorite.
For me, it was one of those books you can’t stop reading. It made me emotional and it was kind of a rollercoaster. There were many cute moments between the two characters that made you feel happy and then they weren’t speaking to each other, and as someone who feels a lot, it felt like I got dumped.
I know this is just a fictional book, but I am taking two lessons with me. Never change yourself (unless you’re not a nice person), but never change for a relationship. Second, Just have fun in life like Star. She did not care she did not have those traditional jobs. She just did what was making her happy and that is the most important thing in life.