GRR Reviews Almost Jamie (The Jet City Kilt) by Gina Robinson

Almost Jamie has great references to the Cosplay/Comicon life, and some serendipitous meeting. However, it did end on somewhat of a just "happy for now" (HFN) with a bit of cliffhanger for further adventures.

Blair Edwards is Seattle's latest cancer doc, after leaving her BF behind in London, since he's not going to commit, and she needed to be in Seattle for her career to move forward. Only her love of romance novels of the fictional Highlander Jamie keep her companion... Until she runs into the next best thing... a cosplay Jamie that is virtually indistinguishable from the real thing... at Jet City Comicon, when she attended in cosplay as Jamie's lady in red! // Austin MacDougall (yes, he's a Scot) is a Seattle Tech Millionaire that cosplay for fun and bragging rights, and being a Scot, he's practically a dead-ringer for the actor playing Jamie, esp. when they are both in costume. But his love life is so bad, he enlisted a dating coach / matchmaker to up his game... just when Blair came to his rescue after a cosplay swordfight at Comicon dislocated one of his fingers. And they can't possibly be better matched... but there's a huge difference between PLAYING lovers... and BEING lovers... but they can adapt, can't they, esp. when a TV producer wanted to push the local romance angle?

Both tech and Comicon references are spot on, and the meet-cute deserves an award by itself. But that meet-cute ended up taking a good portion of the book to resolve, then the story pivoted into a reality TV show angle. Given there are a few more volumes, this ended up as more of an "intro" to the saga between the couple, thus a "happy for now" ending, with quite a bit of angst about problems to come, i.e. cliffhanger.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Two cosplayers meet and it's practically love at first sight, esp. when he's dressed as her favorite fictional hero...

Overall Rating: 4/5

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