Rosie and the Dreamboat (The Improbable Meet-Cute #3) by Sally Thorne

Oh Sally.

For the record my gateway drug to romance novels is The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. I probably read that book once a year. I recommend it to anyone and everyone who even remotely expresses and interest in romance. When the movie came out I attended a viewing party with my girlfriends. Lucy is one of the cutest heroines of all time and I ‘heart’ Joshua Templeton.

She peaked early.

Rosie and the Dreamboat was fine. The first two books in this brilliant collection of novellas were adorable. Highly recommend. The authors really seem to understand the assignment. When you are right a ‘short’ romance you can’t do a lot of third act drama. And you can’t make the conflict to….conflicty? Probably not a word. But it can’t be too big or too difficult to get thru because really quickly you need your couple to be in convincing love. That’s hard to do if say you are trying to heal a marriage (I'm looking at you Janna MacGregor). But Rosie was almost too short.

The premise is that our heroine gets trapped in a sort of seclusion tank and can’t get out. Sight unseen she floats around naked talking to the fireman assigned to keep her calm while they figure out a way to get her out of the tank. It’s a cute conversation. But enough to make me believe these two will immediately fall in love the moment she gets out? Nope. Not enough tension. Not enough sparks. This one kinda fell flat for me. Was it bad? No. But it wasn’t good either.

Final Judgment: A flat 3rd book in a previously promising series.