When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte SteinMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Grumpy hardman ex-footballer Alfie Harding has a contract to write his memoir but after a foreword he wrote for a friend was universally panned, his publishers decide he needs a ghost-writer. Perpetually misunderstood, he doesn't want to share anything about his life, or his thoughts.
Mabel Willicker is Alfie's opposite (and maybe one of his biggest fans), small, curvaceous, and with a sunny disposition this would be a dream if Alfie hadn't been so rude about her, while she was in the room.
But as Mabel tries to tease anything personal out of Alfie she discovers that they have a lot in common and her snarkiness seems to amuse him. Then a fan posts a grainy photo of the two of them and to cover up the fact that Alfie has hired a ghost-writer they pretend to be dating.
I really enjoyed the banter between Mabel and Alfie, but (and I know I'll be in the minority) it felt like a third of the book was just the two of them having sex, or talking about it, or doing sex-adjacent things and it sort of got boring?
Anyway, otherwise it would have been a four star rating. Reminiscent of The Wall of Winnipeg and Me and The Game Plan in some ways - by which I mean reminiscent of the feels they gave rather than the plot.
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