GRR Reviews Along Came Mr. Right by Gerri Russell

"Along Came Mr. Right" is sweet, but the angst isn't really there much. It's basically an arranged marriage triangle with a pretty lame ending.

Olivia Tyler knew the struggles of children in foster care. That's why she started her own foster adoption agency, and people supported her with charity auctions to raise money for the kids. She wasn't ready for love, not after her BF humiliated her on FB. Then a stranger helped her out of a jam... His name was Max Right, and he's a mathematician developing a complex matching algorithm for soul mates, with potential applications in other areas. He believes he found his soulmate in Olivia... But he's engaged to someone else. The rich girl helped him when he needed it. When she needed him for something, he can't refuse. But now he's stuck, as she's engaged to one, but loved another. And they both need to help a troubled teen... But Olivia won't commit until Max is free and clear. It is up to Max to prove he really is Mr. Right.

Sweet, but the end required a change of heart on the part of the villain. The story doesn't have a dull moment, as both Max and Olivia are occupied constantly, but this change of heart ending was really lame, IMHO. It wasn't set up that well. 

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Math whiz falls for the foster agency head, but she wasn't ready and he's engaged to someone else...

Tropes: different worlds, triangle, family pressure,

Overall Rating: 3/5

GRR Reviews Flirting with Felicity by Gerri Russell

Flirting with Felicity was an "enemies into lovers" contemporary romance that has some parts that are quite good, but some parts are just much worse. All in all, it came out just about average.

Felicity Wright was just the head chef and restaurant manager of a restaurant attached to the Bancroft Hotel in Seattle. She was shell-shocked when she found out that the old cranky man who had stayed there for years was the owner of the hotel... and he had left the hotel to her in his will when he died. Yes, the whole hotel AND restaurant, making her an instant millionaire. Now she will finally have some money for her father, who had suffered brain injury ten years ago, to get him an experimental treatment that could allow him to speak again. She did not count on the arrival of Blake Bancroft, the late owner's nephew... who was willing to fight her for the ownership of the hotel. Blake arrived at the hotel, expecting to find some gold digging tramp who had somehow seduced his uncle. What he found instead was a hardworking, kind, and loyal head chef and manager that also teaches cooking classes to the homeless in her spare time, not that there is much of it. Blake needed the clan's first hotel so he can renovate it into the greenest hotel ever, but that would put a lot of people out of a job. When a reporter enters the picture, intending to stir up trouble for her "big break", Felicity and Blake will have to decide who owns the hotel, and whoever loses may lose much more than pride...

Somehow the plot was not quite even. The good touches are there, but basically, one side gave up as a grand gesture, then there was a counter-grand gesture. The complication with the reporter was resolved far too easily, and that sort of invasion of privacy was beyond the pale. All in all, the book just did not flow that smoothly.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Chef suddenly inherited a whole hotel and restaurant, then fell for the owner's nephew who wanted the hotel back...

Tropes: chef, different worlds, enemies to lovers

Overall Rating:  3/5