Everyone should have a goal in life. For Star Shine Meadows, the daughter of self-proclaimed hippies, her goal is to be happy. Her parents taught her that tying herself down to people, places, or jobs is limiting. So, Star works as a professional line sitter and character actor (e.g. dressing up like a Disney Princess for a child’s birthday party). Since every sunshine must have a grump, the meet-cute happens when she’s dressed as Merida from Brave and she meets Rafferty "Rafe" Whitman, uncle of the high society birthday girl. A second chance encounter shortly thereafter leads to Rafe offering her a job pretending his girlfriend to keep his family from continuously trying to set him up with women. Such is the newest rom-com by Samantha Young entitled THE LOVE PLOT.
As their relationship develops with various responses from their friends and family, Rafe and Star must work their way through misunderstandings as they catch feelings and try to fit into each other's worlds. As characters, Rafe is grating in the beginning but shifts to super soft pretty fast, as he and Star fall for one another.
THE LOVE PLOT is an enjoyable quick read with witty dialogue and fun secondary characters including some you’ll love to hate. The overriding theme of the tale is what is a compromise in a relationship and what is changing yourself into someone else when they should love you as you are.
There’s a magnetic attraction when a happy-go-lucky gig worker agrees to a fake relationship with a rich, uptight New Yorker in this steamy romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Samantha Young.
Star Shine Meadows is all about freedom, thanks to the hippie parents who raised her. Juggling her jobs as a professional costume character actor and a line sitter, she believes in no expectations, no stressful ambitions, and no-strings-attached relationships. So when she meets a birthday girl’s grumpy uncle while working a princess party, she can’t help but needle him. She’ll never see him again, and honestly, he's pretty hot.
Rafe Whitman may be a veterinarian with a great bedside manner, but that doesn’t mean his patience extends to anyone with opposable thumbs. His family will not stop nagging him about finding “the one,” so when he runs into obnoxiously cheery Star again, he makes her an offer: He’ll pay her more than she would make doing her odd jobs if she’ll pretend to be his girlfriend at family gatherings. She can stop sitting in line waiting for someone else’s new phone, and he’ll get his family off his back.
When the tension between them heats to a breaking point, Star’s desire for "no strings" is tested against Rafe’s staunch stability. They say opposites attract, after all....
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