GRR Reviews Bidding on Love: When love complicates by Joanne Dannon

Bidding on Love is a contemporary romance that used "auction" as the meetcute but quickly pivoted into "love interrupted" mixed with "damaged lovers". The characters are nicely drawn with new dimensions revealed once you get further into the book.

Lily Taylor wants to launch her jazz singer career at a celebrity auction in Melbourne, but the only one who's bidding was Diego Sanchez, a man whom she had a one-night fling a month ago, and never expected to see again. Lily had been raising her twin brothers after the death of her parents and now they are of age, she is determined to pick up her priorities she had neglected for too long, and love was not on the schedule. Diego had launched a series of hip wine bars across Australia, and he's ready to settle down. Lily wasn't only not interested, Lily was just all wrong for him, at least according to his own criteria... but the attraction between them cannot be denied. They agree to a brief fling. But can they let go of each other when the time comes?

The romance and push-pull was sweet and sigh-worthy. Diego was far more damaged than we first suspect despite initially fitting the "rich cocky alpha male" archetype, while Lily was the "allergic to alpha controllers" woman, but both changed their minds as they come to know each other better. Good character arc.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Jazz singer intending to restart her career found the only one who believed was her one-night fling charming Latin Lover

Tropes: reunion, auction, orphan, scars, different worlds, fling to a thing,

Overall Rating:  4/5