Hasty by Julia KentMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
When Life Hands You Lemons Go Home and Make Cheese
This was a freebie and it wasn’t until I started reading that I realised that I’d already read Fluffy, which was about the MFC’s sister. So though this is part of a series, you don’t really need to have read the other books to enjoy this one, even though it’s about the same loose group of people.
On the day of her greatest triumph, Hastings is plunged into her deepest darkest low. Hauled away in handcuffs in front of her clients and her arch-nemesis Ian, a gorgeous billionaire, is the most humiliating experience of her life. After spending a month in jail, she is finally released with nothing but a few suitcases filled with a tiny fraction of her possessions and $700 that the FBI has allowed her keep.
With her whole worldview shaken to the core, Hastings returns home to her childhood bedroom and the knowledge that no one will touch with a barge pole in finance, with the exception of Ian. She may have to bite the bullet and accept the offer because hundreds of applications later it’s obvious no one wants to hire her.
This was well written, as most of Julia Kent’s books are. The characters were well thought out and there was humour as well as raw emotions. This book is less a romance and more a few life lessons learnt for the MFC.
However, I did find it all a bit hypocritical that Hastings was supposed to learn how to be a better person because she’d been ruthless and hard-charging in business, that her success has been a prime motivator and that made her a bad sister and friend. On the other hand, Ian who is also all of those things was ok as he was. That made me a little crazy, to be honest. Basically, Hastings needed to learn to be a softer and more emphatic person in order to gain happiness, so essentially she had to radically change her personality in order to recognise true happiness. These changes were required in order to understand Ian’s motivations and allow her to forgive him and move towards true romantic joy.
I want to know why Hastings had to change to get a relationship but Ian didn’t. It’s hypocrisy of the worst sort and I kind of hated it. It tainted my earlier enjoyment of the book because it took the changes way too far. It was sloppy plot construction and it disappointed me because up until then I was enjoying the book as much as I can a rom-com. I don’t read these books to want to slap the author, I do it for relaxation and this did not relax me because I was grinding my teeth too much.
I probably won’t be reading this author too much in the future, because I’m fairly sure this isn’t the first book of hers that I’ve been frustrated by.
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