Reality of You by Jean Haus Review

4.5 Smooches

Synopsis

Naomi Porter was once witty, fun, and outgoing, but she has scratched outgoing off the list, along with men. She has a mediocre tech job in fabulous New York, a large smut book collection, and awesome friends, both tangible and in an online gaming community. She just doesn’t date. A future filled with cats and housedresses beats having her heart broken again.

But Naomi still likes men, even kind of stalks—mostly fantasizes about—a gorgeous one at work during lunch.

Her best friend, Kara, is determined that Naomi will be outgoing again. When Kara finds out who, as in a notorious playboy, Naomi is stalking at lunch, she plans to break Naomi of her lunchtime habit and bring her back into the real world. It’s just going to take a bit of deception.

Between all the deceiving, fangirling, and bumbling, Naomi might not be able to resist the temptation of turning her seven-month fantasy into reality. And really, so what if he’s a playboy or a demanding jerk? Her fantasies don’t include love or even like, just a bed or a couch or the back seat of a limo…

Reality might be just what she needs.

*A sexy romantic comedy intended for audiences 18+

Review

“After work, I’d head home for some online gaming. Oh, the excitement of my life.”

I was extremely excited to start reading Reality of You. I am a huge Jean Haus fan after reading her New Adult series Luminescent Juliet and I knew that I would love this new romantic comedy too just from the blurb. This book was a fun and refreshing read. I cannot wait to read more books from Jean in this genre in the future.

“Had I known you were running a sweatshop I would never have taken this job.”

Reality of You focuses on Naomi Porter, who has given up men after being burned too many times. Naomi prefers to just sit back and drool over the man she is lusting over in the safety of her workplace lobby rather than actually engage in any kind of a relationship with a man. When one of her friends arranges for her to work as the sexy man’s (Reese) secretary in a tropical location for a week it seems like a good excuse to lust up close. What she encounters instead is the very demanding and critical boss from HELL! By the time the week is winding down she is sure that lusting at a distance is a much better option.

“Too demanding?” “At least at work,” I squeaked under the spell of those warm eyes. He smiled, slow and sensual. “I can be demanding in other places too.”

Once they are back home and she is no longer employed by him Reese seems to start actively pursuing her. Naomi can’t figure out why this sex on a stick man is coming after her but knowing his track record of not staying with a woman for more than three weeks she decides to throw caution to the wind and go with it. The big question here is which one is better,  the fantasy of this man she has been watching for seven months or the actual reality of him.

“We were moving fast, fast, fast. And I liked, liked, liked.”

This book was so much fun. Reese as a demanding asshole of a boss was hilarious because I never knew what he would say to her next and Naomi was a comedy of errors giving him plenty of reasons to make sarcastic comments. Once  they got together the book took a super sexy turn, Oh my my! I love Jean’s writing as always she grabbed me from the first page and wrote a exciting story that I just could not stop reading. I really hope that Jean plans to write more in this genre soon because I really enjoyed this fast and fun read!

~miranda

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