Book Review: Shacking Up by Helena Hunting

Review: 

So I finally got a chance to read this book after seeing such positive reviews from book friends. I do have to say I liked how the story started and the premise but the delivery didn’t work for me if I’m being honest.

Ruby meets Bane at a party. Bane is sick and on lots of medication. Bane kisses her by accident and then coughs in her face. Gross. Who doesn’t cover their cough? So Ruby ends up getting sick and blows her audition. She needed this audition as she doesn’t want to have to admit to her father that he was right and work for the family. Bane and Ruby meet up again with mutual friends and they work out a deal where she will pet sit while he’s away.

So here’s the thing. I love me a good slow burn. Those are my favorites but this book was slower than ever and it was SO frustrating. I couldn’t feel their connection and as the story went on I really didn’t like Ruby. At times she could come off very judgmental and I didn’t like that at all. Bane was the only saving grace for me when it came to this book. And the pet animals. This isn’t the first book by Helena Hunting that I have read so I will be reading her future books. I just think it’s a case of me and not the author.