Just Like That: The perfect feel-good romance to make you smile by Nina KayeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Jess is living a great life as a senior events manager for an Edinburgh-based firm, in fact she is hoping for promotion when she finds out that her beloved older brother has had a stroke and is incapacitated. Their parents, who live abroad, seem happy to abdicate all responsibility for their son's recovery and well-being to Jess, although they do at least agree to fund some support. However, when Jess proposes a flexible working arrangement with her boss he utterly refuses to countenance it, re-allocates her prestigious high-profile events to more junior staff and effectively demotes her to dealing with smaller, less interesting clients like East Lothian Wildlife Park which is in danger of closing unless it can raise some serious cash through various fund-raising events.
Jess does her best with the animal park, but the head keeper Nick pours cold water on all her ideas, not only that but he's the creep who tried to hit on her while she was distraught outside the hospital after learning of her brother's stroke.
But gradually as the staff pull together to pull off different events Jess and Nick find they have something in common after all - and it might just be animal attraction (I'll get my coat). But Nick has said he wants something straightforward and uncomplicated after his ex-wife cheated on him several times, which is the exact opposite of Jess' life, she daren't let him know about her carer responsibilities so she'll have to keep her brother a secret from him.
I've read a couple of books by Nina Kaye before and enjoyed her different take on romance. Unfortunately, this didn't really work for me. Jess' thinking made no sense to me and consequently she created all the drama unnecessarily. Everything was all a bit too coincidental and there was no real dramatic tension or conflict.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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