Sophie Darling (sadly nowhere near as awesome as my favourite romance heroine with Darling as a surname) is on her way to a job interview in London and unexpectedly and happily finds herself upgraded to first class. Her joy is somewhat lessened when very handsome, but supremely grouchy Gabriel “Scottie” Scott is seated next to her, outraged that one of the two seats he’s purchased has been allotted to someone. Nonetheless, cheerful and mischievous Sophie decides to try to crack handsome guy’s crabby demeanour (at this point she doesn’t know his name) by both flirting and teasing him and once she discovers that he’s clearly deeply uncomfortable on planes, she does her best to distract him, so he doesn’t have such a bad time of it.
Before they arrive in London, they discover that the interview Sophie is on her way to is as social media rep for the rock band Kill John, which Scottie manages. So indirectly, if she gets the job, he will become her boss. Obviously, he can’t get involved with one of his employees, so any flirting between them has to stop right there. Once Sophie does meet the band, there is a brief conflict involving her paparazzi past, but she gets the job, and will now be going on the European tour with the band.
In “could only happen in a romance novel” plotting, both Sophie and Gabriel have trouble sleeping and it’s making them both irritable and less than efficient. They discover, through plot contrivance that only when in the same bed can they get a good night’s sleep. So Gabriel proposes that Sophie start sleeping in his bed, totally platonically, of course, even though everyone with eyes in their head can tell that both he and Sophie are absolutely gone for each other, and Scottie’s famed iron control is about to crack every time some other guy so much as glances in Sophie’s direction.
Emmalita, one of my fellow romance enthusiasts here on CBR, absolutely hated this book and Gabriel in particular. I can agree that Gabriel isn’t the most likable of heroes, but I read him as a lot less emotionally manipulative and controlling than her.
Full review here.
