Mr. Romantic by J.A. Huss

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Charm is the key to the world.

Charisma, magnetism, sex appeal—that ‘it’ factor that can’t be described.

Nolan Delany has it is spades.

The infamous Mr. Romantic.

And maybe he is out of my league… But I’m going to give it the old college try anyway. Because I didn’t travel two thousand miles for a job interview at his request just to be put out like trash.

Don’t underestimate me, Mr. Delaney.

I’m really not as innocent as I look.

Audiobook Review

Mr. Cocky!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💜💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😠☺️😋😍🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Ivy Rockwell – one day when sitting at home, she hears a knock at the door, it is a man in a black suit who gives her an embossed silver invitation to apply for a managerial job with Delaney Resorts in Borrego Springs California. Ivy never applied for the job, but if she says yes, she has to sign an NDA at which time the details will be provided. She will be brought to California on a private jet. She decides to go for it after looking up Delaney Resorts to see if it is a real place. She graduated last spring and hasn’t yet gotten a job.

The Heroes: Nolan Delaney (a.k.a. Mr. Romantic) – his friend West sent over files for some interviews for new managerial employees. When he first sees Ivy’s file, he is not impressed with the fact that she graduated from Brown, where he went until the scandal with he and his friends. They were known as the Mister’s and even though they were acquitted of rape charges, they never finished college. Though he and his friends are all doing well in business. He owns seven popular night clubs but now is moving into the hotel business. He plans to hire one of the men that applied.

The Story: Ivy was a sheltered minister’s daughter for most of her life and is still a virgin at 22 years old. She lives in New England and wants to move on with her life and do some of the things she has been missing out on. So she jumps in and goes to get the job at Delaney Resorts. She knew that Nolan Delaney was known as Mr. Romantic ten years ago when he and his friends attended Brown and there was a scandal. She would love for him to be the one to take her V card. She doesn’t think she will get the job, but decides to take the opportunity to get out of her comfort zone.

Nolan’s sister Claudette is the one that checks Ivy in at the start and basically tells her not to fall for Nolan’s charm and that Ivy has absolutely no chance of getting the position and will be gone by the end of the day. But she gives her the chance to make a presentation even though the two men vying for the job have been working on their presentations since before Ivy even arrived. I was really hoping Ivy would blow them away with hers.

Nolan is a powerful and arrogant player and he likes to use his power and his looks to get what he wants out of people, especially women. My feelings on him are a bit mixed. I feel for him since he was accused of rape and was innocent and since then he has been accused of a few different things. His father and sister never gave him the benefit of the doubt or believed in him. Yet he was so cocky that he was hard to like.

There is some controversy in other reviews because of the steamy scenes in this one since Nolan is in to rape fantasy. Though I don’t have a problem with it. Is it really a rape fantasy if there is consent? I don’t really think so, he puts it that he just likes the struggle and a bit of rough sex. I don’t see that as all that deviant or even someone who would condone actual rape. So I don’t really know what everyone is up in arms about. Like Nolan, I think that it is all about the consent, and he detailed in writing everything he would do to her and gave her a safe word, saying that everything would stop if she said it.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Erin Mallon and Tad Branson. Both of these are good narrators. I really like Erin’s voice and cadence. Her voice is soft and feminine and sounds age appropriate for Ivy and she is really good at sounding anxious which Ivy is for much of the book. Tad has a clear and sharp voice, that isn’t my favorite but is fine otherwise.

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