The Hooker and the Hermit by Penny Reid & L. H. Cosway Review + Giveaway!!

I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

The Hooker and the Hermit on 02 Feb 2015
Pages: 338 pages
Format: eARC

Review

Annie Catrel aka the hermit in the story, by day she works for a Media marketing company helping celebrities with their public image and by night she is the anonymous infotainment blogger known as Socialmedialite who blogs about celebrities and she happens to be pretty good at this in her online life. In real life, Annie’s completely different. She is reserved, finds it difficult to make conversations with people or even look them in eye while talking and the only thing she thinks she’s good at in RL is her job. She prefers her alter ego where she’s confident, witty and not to mention actually social. 

Hide your puppies and kittens, New York. Cruella, aka Dara Evans, is looking for a new sweater, and your little Fido is the perfect shade of innocent to match her baby koala mittens – <3 The Socialmedialite

Ronan Fitzpatrick aka the hooker in the story (and no, not that kind of a hooker as Ronan would say get your mind out of the gutter). He is a rugby player who has the position of a hooker in the team. He is obsessed about his diet and health, cares nothing about how others see him and doesn’t give a rat’s ass about social media either. He also recently broke up with his long time girlfriend.

Dearest Annie, Roses are red. Violets are blue. I’m using my hand But I’m thinking of you. – Ronan P.S. Just to clarify, I’m using my hand to write this note…get your mind out of the gutter.

Unlike many other heroes, our rugby player isn’t actually a player which I liked. Though he was funny, has a foul mouth he could also be quite serious and intense. When he looks at Annie, he sees a beautiful, intelligent if shy woman, that’s completely different from all the other women around her. Annie on the other hand doesn’t know how to deal with people in real life mainly due to her childhood. Now there’s Ronan, who she wrote a post about in her blog calling him a love child of a leprechaun and a hobbit (and who doesn’t know that it was her that wrote it) and is asking her out she doesn’t really know what to do with him. He doesn’t seem to care that she sometimes has no coordination skills, sucks at making conversation and has some baggage. 

And it’s often you come across two unique protagonist who are also both so lovable, know they both have flaws and gah I just loved them as individuals and as a couple. 

The book had just the right amount of humour, love, angst and chemistry.    

They were adorable together seriously there interactions made me grin and smile like I was a teenager at some famous boyband’s concert. 

This is me while reading the book:

Quibbles: Apart from it being so good that I didn’t want it to end. I wanted a bit more of something near the end after Annie’s gesture.

I didn’t quite know how the co-authoring of the book would work but the writing was seamless. Really if someone didn’t know it was written by two authors they wouldn’t even think that it was a collab. I really enjoyed their brain child and I hope that they co-author more books together.  

Random Quote that I loved:

Therapists always struck me as a hire-a-friend service. Therapists are to mental and emotional purging as prostitutes are to physical urges.

Overall, this book was a breath of fresh year, truly unique and a joy to read! Definitely a book for my best of 2015. Happy Reading!

P.s If my review doesn’t make much of a sense it’s cause I’m high on pain medication. 

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