The Perfect Kiss Book

Grace ~disguises herself as a companion to her bff Melly while on her way to meet Melly's fiance, Dominic. Dominic is unmoved by Melly but gets hotpants over the companion. That's literally the entire book. Dom has hotpants over Grace. Grace has hotpants over Dom. Exit left, pursued by a bear.

1. WOW Katie pretty much summed it up when she said, "This is a story about two people who fall into lust." There's no real sense of connection between them: just a lot of burning loins. And it's distracting in a way, because there's a lot of other stuff going on, like the fact that she's there to stop him from marrying her friend! And her friend's dad might be dying! The castle is falling apart!

Meanwhile, Dom's got like a backlog of Trauma to deal with before he makes any kind of good partner, but it kind of just gets hand-waved away. Grace doesn't even get to flee him properly because he's just there, in her space, telling her how things are going to play out. :\

2. Harassment =/= sensual / sexy / seductive. The fact that he kisses Grace right off is really obnoxious and worrying. Then he keeps telling her that he's going to make her his mistress--even though Grace clearly wants none of it. And the bathing pool scene! FORCING YOUR ATTENTIONS LIKE THAT IS NOT ATTRACTIVE OR GOOD OR ANY OF THAT: IT'S GROSS.

3. There was a streak of polyamory in this that made feel all aflutter. Not that I minded; I just wasn't expecting it from a straight historical!