3.5 Stars- Fun story- A little sexy, but you've.....gotta.....wait....for it!- A bit unbelievable- Annoying cat, but also hilarious!!- Really likeable, normal people...this was my favorite part.While I enjoyed the story and got a few good chuckles out of it, once again I wasn't as enamored as everyone else seemed to be. I feel like the old grumpy Grandma sitting in her recliner hollering at everyone to quiet down. The story was fun and light with a nice sweet contemporary romance to read when you don't want anything heavy weighing you down. But I just couldn't bring myself to get past my sexual hangups with this one, and felt as if the characters didn't exactly act the way they should.Caroline and Simon share the same bedroom wall, and the thickness of that wall quickly becomes apparent when Simon's "wallbanging" of his harem of women wakes Caroline up night after night. This was one of the two sexual hangups I had with the story. Simon has not one, not two...but THREE women that he's trading off. EEEwww!! I don't care how single you are, it would be mighty hard to find that many women that are perfectly okay with being one of many. And if you're that hot shit, I guess you should go for it, but to be the woman that follows is pretty skeevy. I will say, at least Simon was honest about it and never tried to hide his proclivities. And he wasn't a bad guy at all...quite the opposite, actually. He had a romantic soul. It was just hidden behind his lifestyle. Simon and Caroline end up bumping in to each other while out with their respective group of best friends. Sparks start flying around everywhere at that point! I loved the friend dynamics, and loved how everyone came together to form a big ole group of buddies, each person feeding off of the others and each learning something of themselves in the process. I think my favorite part was watching the group pair off and come together again, then pair off and each find their own happy place.The biggest thing that made me sort of meh was the inner dialogue and sometimes actual dialogue during the sex scenes. It was funny to talk to your missing O while you were in a sexual dry spell. But to talk to your missing O while actually having sex? Completely ruined the sex scenes for me. I was sooooo disappointed! Little bits of humor or the occasional sexy laugh while doing the deed is okay, but I hate it when my reading sex is interrupted with silly imagery or giggles. My forehead was literally scrunching in frustration, especially because they waited so FREAKING LONG to do the deed! Seriously, while in SPAIN, completely free of responsibility, they wait for nearly a week to get in bed together? And they spend the entire time being romantic, participating in massive amounts of foreplay, touching on all bases but home...but DON'T HAVE SEX? For me, that was the biggest letdown, just completely unbelievable. I wanted to cry in frustration!Overall, I really did enjoy the story. I was so anxious for Caroline and Simon to get together...their domestic situation was conducive to so much interaction! The ending, Bwahahaha! I laughed so hard at that last part...it earned an extra half star just for that alone. I love, love, love animals and while Clive the cat was an obnoxious bit of coitus interruptus, he sure was some great comic relief. The author must have a cat, because she nailed his attitude perfectly. Loved it!!
