Misadventures with a Manny

Synopsis: Goodreads


Vera Woods is at her wit’s end.

Her husband has run off with the nanny, leaving Vera with a broken heart, three very angry sons, and even less time to juggle the demands of family and her career. After her boys scare away a sixth replacement nanny, Vera is out of time off from work and desperately out of options. Still nursing an aching heart, she turns to an unlikely source for help―a manny.

Lincoln Scott is no stranger to family chaos. But rather than grow jaded, he has thrown his natural talents into building his own business―providing live-in childcare for families as a manny. The money is great and the perks are a blast, but when his family of six years moves to Germany and their plans to bring him along fall through, Lincoln is suddenly unemployed and aware of how much of himself he’s given to other people’s families.

Brought together by circumstances, Lincoln and Vera’s mutually beneficial business arrangement becomes complicated by the undeniable chemistry they share. Vera needs a manny and Lincoln needs a job, but they both may have found the very thing neither one had realized they needed―a whole lot more.

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Misadventures is a romantic series of spicy standalone novels, each written or co-written by some of the best names in romance. The stories are scandalous, refreshing, and, of course, incredibly sexy. They’re the perfect bedside read, a ‘quick blush’ for the reader who loves a page-turning romance.

Review:
Rating: 3 stars

I received an Arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. I love Toni Aleo's assassin series and when I saw an Arc of this book I had to jump at the chance. Who wouldn't like the idea of a woman falling in love with a Manny. Most of the time we read books that show a single father needing help and this time it was the opposite. This was about a newly divorced single mom trying to raise three boys while still working. Unfortunately for me this book just fell a little flat. The story line was good, but I wanted more. I still enjoyed it, but I wanted more build up between Lincoln and Vera. I wanted the tension and the will they won't they type. Instead a lot of the beginning talks about how hot they think each other is and how they can't do anything because of the boss worker relationship they stepped into. And then once they got together everything just seemed too perfect. I wanted to see them sneak around with sexual tension and watch them fall in love. Instead I felt this was a little insta love attached with lust. I can work with lust, but then develop the lust into love. If your looking for a little lust filled insta book then read this book, sadly, I just don't think I read this book at the right time in my life for me to fully enjoy it.