Title: Man Crush Monday
Author: Kirsty Moseley
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: February 3, 2020
"Adorably sweet, incredibly funny and totally astounding!" - Little Steamy Reads "An opposites attract, seemingly unlikely romance that’s a fun read with some unexpected drama. I felt the love and the angst. A great read!" - Keri Loves Books "Man Crush Monday is hands down the best contemporary romance with rom-com vibes, I've recently read." - Bookmarks by Jasmina Blog
Perma-single Amy Clarke prides herself on three things: her pink hair, her Converse collection, and her ability to drink copious amounts of margarita without puking. She isn’t looking for love. She’s perfectly content with her simultaneous love affairs with Netflix and both Ben and Jerry. The trouble is, sometimes, love finds you.
Five months ago, he climbed aboard her train, and nothing has been the same since. Fast-forward to now, she still doesn’t know his name, but she knows she wants his babies.
Her crush—this tall, dark, and handsome dork who gets on her train every other Monday—has no idea he brightens her day with his panty-wetting smile and laugh that makes her pulse quicken.
When a chance encounter outside of workforces them to have their first proper conversation, things quickly go from loving him from afar to up close and very personal. With a string of disastrous exes in her past, has Amy finally found her Mr. Perfect? Or does fate have other plans?
A new stand-alone romcom from Kirsty Moseley, best-selling author of The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window and Nothing Left to Lose.
Review
Rating: 3.5*
Amy looks forward to Mondays - yes, she is in a minority. Mondays are the day she gets to see her man crush. The man she has fallen in love with, yet she hasn't gone out with him nor has she actually had a conversation with them. When she actually bumps into him at a coffee shop and they strike up a conversation which leads to a date, she is in a dream world. Jared, though, is nothing like she imagined. He is more introverted, smartly dressed and has a quiet confidence about him, nothing like the geeky personality she was expecting. But then...plot twist.
This was fun and funny but I didn't find it laugh out loud funny. It was amusing though. I did think Amy needed a kick up the backside for doubting things with Jared for the reasons that she did. Jared treated her with nothing but respect and like a princess. He made her hot and made her insides turn to mush, yet she doubted her feelings for him.
I also found this a little slow to get going. It felt as though I was reading for a long time before the story went anywhere. That being said, once I got over this hump and into the main thrust of the story, it was engaging. and moved at quite a pace. This is where I got the most enjoyment, despite my frustrations with Amy.
Kirsty Moseley has always been a passionate reader since she was a little girl, devouring books overnight, barely sleeping and paying for it at school the next day. Writing has come similarly to her and once she discovered Wattpad, she finally plucked up the courage to post one of her stories. Seven million reads later, she self-published her debut novel THE BOY WHO SNEAKS IN MY BEDROOM WINDOW, which later became one of 10 Finalists for the 2012 Goodreads' Choice Awards, Best YA Fiction. Shocked and overwhelmed by the response, she published her second novel ALWAYS YOU a few months later and hasn’t looked back.
If she had to sum herself up in one word, it would probably be 'daydreamer' - but unlike most of her school teachers, she doesn't necessarily view that as a bad thing. After all, she read somewhere once that books are like waking dreams....
She lives in Norfolk, England with her husband and son.
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