Saturday, May 22, 2021

Dating the Intern by Natalina Reis

 


Author: Natalina Reis
Title: Dating the Intern
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: May 1, 2021
Cover Designer: RMGraphX

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Who would have thought that pretending to be in love could feel so real?

Ivory Tower is the successful owner and CEO of an online dating service who prides herself in matching her clients with their true love. Everyone except herself. When a TV studio wants to spotlight her company live on air, Ivory runs into a problem: she can’t produce the boyfriend she needs so she doesn’t look like a fraud.

When Li Qiang, her ten-years-younger and toe-curlingly-handsome intern, offers to pose as her boyfriend, Ivory thinks her problem has been solved, but it’s going to take more than the perfect algorithm to get out of this situation. Li Qiang is too easy to love and too hard to forget, and the question remains: Does he really love her or is he only playing his role?





Rating: 3.5*

Ivory owns an online dating site with a personal touch. With a high success rate, she is about to be featured on the local news station and they want to meet her significant other. Except she is single but who will trust a single match maker? Her intern LI steps in and pretends to be her other. This is no hardship as he easily wants more with her.  The problem from Ivory's side is that he is younger than her and she is so lacking in self-confidence and belief that she doesn't believe that she is worthy of love. With a father who takes every opportunity to belittle her and put her down, it is not surprising.

Li's patience and understanding, whilst showing her compassion and being there for her helps with her own self-confidence and belief. Ivory is so desperate for her father's validation that will never come. Whilst I understand that her relationship with her father has greatly impacted on her, there was lots of repetition in her statements that were frustrating to read. 

This was an interesting read - I loved Li's family and hated Ivory's father. 



Natalina wrote her first romance at the age of thirteen. Since then she has published eleven romances that defy the boundaries of her genre. She enjoys writing all kinds of rebels and outcasts into her stories and she always roots for the underdog.

Natalina doesn’t believe you can have too many books or too much coffee. Art and dance make her happy and she is pretty sure she could survive on lobster and bananas alone. When she is not writing or stressing over lesson plans, she shares her life with her husband and two adult sons.



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