Review: (Not) The One by Donna Alam

(Not) The One by Donna Alam
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Emotional Romance

Miranda has two jobs. She found her fiancé cheating with her best friend and she had to move back in with her warring parents. Her life sucks.

James is very wealthy, handsome and loved by his father. He has a successful art dealership and good friends. His life is pretty good.

Miranda’s second job is pet sitting which helps her get away from her warring parents for a while, and get paid for it. Her cousin dragged her out for the night and she came home a bit tipsy and somehow the cat escaped. The cat escaped next door where James happened to be looking after his Dad’s ancient dog whilst he was on holiday. On meeting, James and Miranda have a spectacular one night stand. They don’t see each other for a month until they bump into each other again and find out that James’ best friend is married to Miranda’s boss.

Despite herself, Miranda feels herself falling a little bit in like with James and he feels the same. But Miranda is determined to leave the relationship as casual, because love often turns to hate.

This was actually sort of believable. The way the relationship between James and Miranda developed was full of coincidences and stops and starts. It almost felt natural. I also liked that James as the older of the two was more together about how he felt about their situation and was happy to dive head first into a relationship. Miranda being younger was more hesitant, especially having such a bad example with her parents and her cheating ex.

I liked both of them. Despite James being very wealthy, he was happy in cheap restaurants and didn’t look down his nose at Miranda’s old car. He cared deeply for his Dad and was very supportive of his artists. Miranda was hard working, she picked herself back up after having her life fall apart and she was trying her hardest to make it on her own again. They both like to banter and the witty back and forth is very entertaining.

There are some unexpected twists and turns to the story and it makes for some occasional sniffles, but there is lots of happiness to make up for it.

I really enjoyed this book as I usually do with Donna Alam’s work. Definitely a good book to unwind with.

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