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    Kiss the Girl

    By Melissa Brayden

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    Sleeping with the enemy has never been so complicated.

    Twenty-eight-year-old Brooklyn Campbell is having a bad day. A speeding ticket, a towed car, and a broken heel are all working against her laid-back vibe. To top it all off, her birth mother, whom she's never met, has requested contact. The only bright spot is an impromptu date with a beautiful and mysterious brunette.

    Jessica Lennox is what you would call a high-powered executive. She's the head of a multimillion-dollar advertising firm in New York City, and it didn't happen by accident. But when the blonde head turner from the wine bistro turns out to be her number one competitor, her life gets infinitely more complex.

    Is New York big enough for both Brooklyn and Jessica? Maybe it's just time they experienced it together...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBold Strokes Books
    Release dateJul 18, 2014
    ISBN9781626391147
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    Kiss the Girl
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    Melissa Brayden

    Melissa Brayden received her bachelor’s degree in film production and speech communication from Baylor University. She currently works full time as a theater director at the performing arts center of one of the largest high schools in the state of Texas, a job she completely enjoys. Recently, she’s fallen down the rabbit hole and rediscovered her love for creative writing.Melissa is married and working really hard at remembering to do the dishes. For personal enjoyment, she spends time with her Jack Russell terriers and checks out the NYC theater scene several times a year. She considers herself a reluctant patron of the treadmill, but thoroughly enjoys hitting a tennis ball around in nice weather. Coffee is her very best friend.

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    • 4/5
      Ok, I would rate this one probably 3.75. I know, that's sort of picky, right?

      Here's the deal... I loved the characters of Brooklyn and Jessica - particularly when they're together. But there were a couple of things that kept yanking me out of the book: The group of friends speak in such a similar way (ie word choice, speech patterns and cadence) that without diaglogue tags, it would be tough to tell them apart when they're chatting as a unit. There were a couple of times when this carried over onto the nearly 40 year old Jessica, too. The other thing that was distracting was the sudden POV changes between Brooklyn and Jess. There were several times when I had to backtrack a paragraph or so to figure out who's head I was in because I thought I missed something. Once I figured out that this was going to keep happening, it didn't bother me as much but if you're someone who has a tough time with that sort of thing, be prepared.

      I didn't notice either of these issues too much in the second half of the book. Brooklyn is dealing with more serious issues and we get to see a more mature, serious side of her - which I loved.

      All in all, I really liked this book and would recommend it to anyone looking for a sweet romance, mixed with a lot of witty humor and some pretty serious story arcs. I couldn't help but love the couple at the center of the story and I'm looking forward to the next book in this series.
    • 3/5
      Brooklyn Campbell is having the mother of bad days. The mother who gave her up when she was a baby contacts her out of the blue, she gets a speeding ticket, her car is towed away, she breaks a heel, and her wallet is still in that towed car. But she runs into a stranger, Jess, who busy her dinner and gives her a "Cinderella" type of kiss. Too bad Jess is actually Jessica Lennox, the notoriously cutthroat ad executive whose firm is vying against Brooklyn's to land a huge contract.This is the second book by Melissa Brayden that I've read, and I have to say that I enjoyed the first one ("Heart Block") more. I honestly think that the reason I didn't like this book more was because both of the leads were very...femme. Like, glamorously femme. And girly. Very girly. I don't have anything against that, but that is so not who I am or the type to which I am attracted, so I just couldn't get into the romance. Which was disappointing, honestly, because the book is well written. There's a lot of character development, and Brooklyn and Jessica are both interesting characters. This isn't just a cookie cutter romance - Brooklyn, in particular, has to face a lot of issues in her life, including coming to terms with her birth mother. I also like that Brooklyn had a strong group of (platonic) friends, which seems to be lacking in a lot of romance books.I listened to the audiobook, and I really liked the narrator. Brooklyn's accent was a little iffy at times, and I hate that Ashton is like totally a valley girl, but I never had difficulty knowing which of the characters was "speaking," as the narrator clearly delineated them all. I would definitely recommend the audiobook if you like audiobooks.Also, for those who are interested, Jessica Lennox is Jenna McGovern's cousin (from "Waiting in the Wings"). Jenna doesn't make an actual appearance in the book, but she's mentioned several times.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Brooklyn and Jessica. Brooklyn works at her own Ad Agency with her best friends since college, Sam, Hunter, and Mallory. Soho Savvy. She meets a woman named Jessica in a bar called Puzzles (love the name) after she's had a super bad day. By the end of the night even though her car had gotten towed, she'd gotten a speeding ticket, and her heel had broken, she thinks it turns out to be a good day.Of course, then there's the first twist. Jessica is also part of an Ad Agency, the CEO of a bigger one that Brooklyn and her small company is going head to head with for a very lucrative contract.The author somehow managed to have the two women fall in love naturally during all the competition and such and I thought that was great.Still, I loved, loved, loved "How Sweet it Is" by the same author, but I wasn't totally loving this one. And then Brayden got to the turn in the story and it got better and so much more interesting by leaps and bounds.Of course, throughout the story the great characters were what kept me reading until I got to the turn. The friendships between the four founders of Soho Savvy seemed so real, not perfect, but real, and the character of Jessica just pulled at my heartstrings in a totally unexpected way.It was a good book that turned into a greater one the closer I got to the end.I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books.
    • 5/5
      If you could only buy one book among all of this year's romantic lesfic releases, this should be your first choice. With Kiss the Girl, Ms. Brayden steps into that exclusive club of romance-only authors whose every release will be eagerly awaited and snapped up by the hopeless romantics.

      Brooklyn grew up being bounced around in the foster home system, eventually finishing her late teens in a group home. Being given up time and again has made Brook wary of love and relationships. Fortunately she has managed to hang on to a steadfast group of friends from a LGBT school club and they’ve gone on to form an advertising firm that’s gotten good enough to go after the big accounts. As Fate would have it, the first woman she’s seriously attracted to turns out to be the head of their fiercest rival.

      If I had to describe the book in one word, it would be ‘well-balanced’. It is a feel good story, but not as syrupy sweet as her last book, if you don’t count the Midnight Chocolates, but those are for emergency crisis resolutions. ;) There is angst sprinkled throughout, but nothing feels overwhelming or contrived because the characters act like real people--they actually talk things over. This is a dialogue heavy book and I love the exchanges--witty, but not over-the-top, mature and realistic--but only after I figured out who said what. I needed to backtrack more than once. Is this how they do dialogue nowadays, that we readers need photographic memory to keep track? :D Anyway, I also love how the author dealt with Brook’s family. It was like the author hit every note perfectly--the reactions of every single family member, including Brook herself--were beautifully done.

      New York City features prominently in the book. The pretty side of New York, that is. Love the snowy scenes, the soho vistas, even the traffic. :) Come to think of it, this book would make a perfect lesbian movie. I’m sure it’ll be much better than the crap that’s available out there.

      P.S. Brooklyn has set the bar pretty high for the author’s Soho romances. It’ll be interesting to see if Mallory, Sam and Hunter can do as well.

      PPS. I love, love Jess. But her character feels a bit too perfect. Perfectly good and noble, that is. How do you get to the top of NY's cutthroat advertising world with a heart like that? I need to pinch and remind myself this is a feel-good book.

      PPPS. Oops. I almost forgot to mention the plot. There's a reason romances like this book are not at the top of my reading queue because the plots are often recycled a million times over already. But this book's plot feels fresh and is sufficiently angsty, twist-y and original enough to make it stand out from the rest.

      5 stars