Review: The Difference Between Us

The Difference Between Us by Rachel Higginson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Molly Maverick works for SixTwentySix marketing, she is struggling to get the management to understand that print advertising is dead and the future is in online marketing and campaigns. She is also the best friend of Vera from the first book. She and Vera's boyfriend Killian's former boss and kind of step-brother Ezra Baptiste practically had a stand-up fight when they first met and have been at loggerheads ever since,not helped by the fact that Ezra is the most beautiful man she has ever seen. The only trouble is, while Molly is avoiding Ezra at all costs, he is pursuing her, getting her to work on his media campaigns, painting a mural on his restaurant wall etc.

Hmm, reading this book so soon after the first one I couldn't help but be struck by the similarities in theme between them, hence the lower rating. Killian and Ezra are both in the restaurant business, although Ezra isn't a chef he knows his way around a kitchen. Molly and Vera were both oblivious to the interest that Killian and Ezra were exhibiting. Killian and Ezra both started pursuing Vera and Molly by engaging with their work. Vera had an abusive ex, Molly has a boss who can't keep his hands to himself. Killian and Ezra are orphans. Even the pacing felt the same, the threat of angst which never really transpires and an abrupt finish. My goodness, even some of the sex scenes felt the same.

Overall, if I hadn't read the first book I would have enjoyed this, there's not much angst, it's a slow burning romance, there's some banter between Molly and Ezra and its nice. But it felt too similar to the first one.

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