Date published May 2008
ISBN 1-59998-674-4
Contemporary Romance
E-book
Reviewed by Lil
CLICK TO PURCHASE! Sports writer for a local paper, Mitch MacKinnon is ambitious with an eye on the big time but gets stuck with Community Happenings when a colleague goes into early labor. His first assignment is an article on a dating service called A Perfect Match. The general distaste of the situation is made more palatable by his editor’s promise to mention his name and story to USA Today’s editor-in-chief.
Juliette Lowell is confident of her matchmaking abilities and is working hard to make her business a success. When a skeptical reporter writes about A Perfect Match in a poor light she challenges him to experience the service first hand. He counter-challenges her to enroll in the same.
They end up a match and are forced to date in order to prove or disprove the suitability of the pairing. Both can feel the chemistry between them but their differences appears quite wide. Mitch is happy as a rolling stone while Juliette has always yearned to put down roots.
Ms. Bradley knows how to write characters we can love, opposing views that we can understand, and romance in which we can believe.
Juliette’s ability to argue reasonably about the combination of methods she used in evaluating her clients was refreshing. This is a woman who craves stability but is not herself staid.
Readers will thoroughly enjoy the banter between the two main characters and the flashes of heat that flare between them, too.
There were things that some readers will not mind but did jar me out of the story. For example, our matchmaker did not believe that passion in love really existed. It did explain her lack of recognition that a relationship of hers was wrong but made a part of the story feel less than right. Nit-picking further, there was a curious statement that she felt Mitch to be more committed to his job than she was to hers. With love such an important issue, one wondered why that would be so.
Our hero is the type of man who would be easy with whom to fall in love. He is handsome, fun, able to admit to being in error, able to hold his ground for reasons of integrity, and he is wonderfully sexy, too.
Oh what a catch, and oh what A PERFECT MATCH!
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