Post Listen Review: This book sucks as much as any other romance book. But don't take my word for it, I put it to the sucky not sucky test. But be forewarned it is an utterly biased test.

Not sucky - The heroine is not actually dumb or ditzy.

Sucky - The male lead is named Rhett. I think there was some other mildly notable book that used that name first. (Gone with the Wind)

Not sucky - There aren't really any shopping trips to make note of.

Sucky - This whole thing could have been resolved with a single conversation.

Sucky - The hero is a wealthy business man who is also a nice guy and supposedly treats his love well. (more on that later) How many wealthy real estate moguls do you know of that are just nice guys at heart? Yeah, that's how many I know of too.

Sucky - The woman is so utterly suspicious of the guy all the time that it is insane. Yet if she had a single conversation addressing the issue he could have cleared everything up.

Sucky - The hero tries to "get revenge" on Denise by planning to seduce her and drop her cold. That doesn't seem like he is a nice guy to me.

Sucky - The hero has no compunction about asking Denise to be his "escort" for the summer but gets pissed when she says he should use a dating service. That seems like a double standard and again not very nice to me.

Sucky - Horrible, horrible metaphors and dialogue. Here are some examples "Making love to Rhett Fennel was akin to smoking crack." Because there is nothing more romantic than crystalized, smokeable cocaine. "I want to go to the rodeo." I'm not really going to go into that one. "Even though you are dressed for a night of seduction, I am going to take a detour" She might be dressed nice but that doesn't seem like a very well thought out compliment. "I'll never impregnate a woman without marrying her after." Um, just thinking to myself here, wouldn't before be the preferred occasion? But at least he is willing to take responsibility.

Not sucky - Denise owns some kind of daycare for children and she caters to those that can't afford other services.

Sucky - There are exactly zero scenes of Denise actually interacting with a child from said facility.

Sucky - They are "weekending on the cape" and the guy tells Denise she needs to "Take more time for herself." Mind you when he said this they were WEEKENDING ON THE CAPE. Which sounds pretty damn relaxing to me.

Sucky - She is supposed to be super hard working but all she ever does is go to fundraising parties and makes certain she gets a weekly mani-pedi.

Sucky - Rhett makes the rent for the daycare lower but I seriously get the impression that any other person would be charged double, daycare or not.

Sucky - They call each other baby every five seconds. "Come here, baby." "No, baby" "That dress looks great on you, baby." Could we possibly infantalize each other more? O wait, then they feed one another. So I guess they can.

Sucky - Everyone smiles wryly, the men are fantastically wealthy, the women are hard working and can easily recognize and often own Louis Vitton bags and the men are seriously fit with nary a pushup in sight. Women and men always seem to adhere to rigid gender stereotypes. That's like all romance books though.

So is it sucky or not sucky? Not sucky - 3 Sucky - 13

It's Suuuuuuuuuucky!!!!!

Pre-Listen Guess: They didn't have an audiobook edition on goodreads but I assure you I am not reading the text of this book. From the look of the book it looks like a crappy romance. And considering that there were at least three other crappy romance books with the same exact title by different authors, my guess is that this is going to suck.