I like it like that Book

I like a good light romance novel occasionally- they're a good balancer when real life gets too hard or heavy. Given that I read romance for pure pleasure, I want to like the characters and vicariously go through the roller coaster of emotions with them. Neither of those was happening here- I made it through nearly half of this bloated novel (500+ pages) without any emotional attachment, and instead a building annoyance with the main character.

The plot here is not novel: Georgia is a type A therapist who is in a long engagement with a man who is safe but boring. Leo is a laid back neighbour who literally crashes into her life and upends her plans to marry Mr. Boring. I wouldn't mind the basic plot if things had moved along a little quicker and the main character wasn't as grating. At 260 pages, all Calman had given her reader was one mediocre make-out session, and no promise of things heating up soon. Instead, she slowed it down again with a return to long passages about how Georgia couldn't possibly really like Leo, it was just her engagement jitters, or work frustrations or …. zzzzzzzz. Way too slow for my romance reading tastes.