Kate Mathieson

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.

Well that was a slog and a half. Fair warning, the book takes a while to get going. I started to lose interest after the first sex scene and my interest dwindled from there. There are some bright parts of the book though (hence the 3 stars) but not enough to actually get me that invested in reading something from this author again anytime soon. Not a bad romance, just needs to be more tightly edited.

"Just As You Are" is about Emma Londstown who finally returns home to settle down (get married, get a home, have kids) like all of her friends have done. However, she meets a man along the way who may derail her plans.

Emma could have been interesting, but the first part of the book just flits around with her traveling the world for 7 years and then returning home to Australia. I think I would have liked the book more if we got to see her in those places. When she stops for a quick trip before heading home she meets a man named Nick and the romance felt ham-fisted to me from the word go. Most of the book is about her new job and reading about someone's job is not that exciting.

This book takes place in Sydney, but it felt too "American" to me by and large and I kept forgetting that Emma was supposed to be Australian.… (plus d'informations)

Just As You Are by Kate Mathieson is a delightfully funny contemporary romance novel. Emma Londstown set off on a journey around the world after being left standing at the altar and seven years later tired of waitressing in a Mexican restaurant in London, decides to head home to Sydney, Australia and figure out what she wants to do with her life. A brief stop in Fiji on her way home leads to a wonderfully sexy one night stand and although he gives her his number and asks to see her again her fears make her think that he’s too good to be true and decides to save herself some heartache by deleting his number from her phone. Back in Sydney living in a tiny flat, going on lousy dates and working in a job at Maker PR agency that she got with some audacious tweaking of her CV Emma is feeling out of place and in way over her head when she arrives at work to find out her new boss is Nicholas Taylor naked swim guy from Fiji. Nick’s head is spinning the woman he’s pretty sure he fell in love with on Fiji doesn’t appear to be the same person who is his new employee and the major event she’s been working on seems to have all the makings of a disaster for the firm. This is a perfect story to curl up with on a cold, gloomy day for a comfort read. I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. Medium Steam. Publishing Date January 20, 2020, #NetGalley #JustAsYouAre #KateMathieson #ContemporaryRomance #HarperImpulse #OneMoreChapter #HarperCollinsCanada #bookstagram… (plus d'informations)