Title: A Weekend of Misbehaving
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Author: Carmen Falcone
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: January 11, 2016
Publisher: Entangled Indulgence
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Source: NetGalley
Cover Description:
When fantasy becomes reality…
The last thing nanny Alice Sommers needs is to be caught skinny-dipping by her sexy, cranky-pants boss—in his pool. Her sister owes a crap-load of money to a slimy loan shark and Alice really needs this job if she has any hope of saving her family. Fortunately, her boss is richer than sin and needs her just as much.
Art dealer Lorenzo Baldi will lose his prestigious career if his anarchist father’s paintings are revealed to the art world. He’s determined to persuade the paintings’ eccentric owner to sell them to him, even if to pull it off, he’ll have to blackmail his daughter’s nanny—a woman with the sexy curves of a Botticelli masterpiece—into being his fake fiancé.
The gorgeous island of Capri inspires some major misbehaving. But even as the loan shark breathes down Alice’s neck and the paintings move closer to the art scene, Lorenzo drops one more bomb that will change everything.
Read on for my thoughts on A Weekend of Misbehaving. No true spoilers, promise.
The things we do for family or even, because of family. That’s an often insurmountable task to have to bear. Alice and Lorenzo, each in their own ways, knows exactly what this concept means. The difference is Lorenzo has the means to take care of both of their family problems – with a little ingenuity, bribery and a lot of attraction.
Alice need a lot of cash, like yesterday. Lorenzo needs a pretend bride-to-be immediately. They each need something the other can provide without too much trouble. The problems begin when the pretend becomes reality.
I enjoyed A Weekend of Misbehaving very much. It is always delightful to see a curvy woman be everything that a size 2 woman could expect in a relationship. Love should always be about what is within the package, not the wrappings… but neither life nor fiction are always fair. My point is simply Alice is an amazing character no matter what her dress size – and that is a really good thing to read about.
I laughed, chuckled, cried a bit, got angry a bit and overall came away from this emotional roller coaster of a story satisfied at the end of a very good story. Ms Falcone’s novels just get better and I hope to never see that trend end.
If you love a good solid romance between unlikely characters then A Weekend of Misbehaving would be perfect for you. Everyone needs a little romance, and to be themselves in love. Pick this one up and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
*I received an e-ARC of A Weekend of Misbehaving from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*
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