Overall: 2/5
Plots and Themes: 3/5
Characters: 2/5
Writing Style: 2/5
Attention Grabbing: 3/5
When Bianca finds out her mom has cancer, she commits herself to being there through the whole journey. When money starts to get tight, she scrambles for a solution. Her restaurant is all she has and she wouldn't want to sell it. Enter Jackson, a millionaire who drives her crazy and has just offered to pay for her mother's treatment in exchange for a fake marriage. Should be easy, aside from the fact that he's still driving her crazy.
This book started out fine, but I was getting really sick of Jackson towards the end. His trauma defined his whole arc and he was obviously holding out on telling us as readers and Bianca until it all comes out after she meets his family. Fine, whatever, but it all felt like sort of weird and out of place reasoning. Then it was all resolved way too quickly and the reasoning behind it all felt stilted and forced. Because of that transition, the whole narrative felt off because it didn't feel like the correct kind of rise and fall.
Decent start, predictable but fun premise, but the follow through wasn't there for me. I didn't hate it, but there were points I had to stop reading just because of how ridiculous it had gotten. Also, the way that Bianca talked was overexaggerated and it started getting really annoying about halfway through.
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