Running the Numbers Blog Tour + Review

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 EXCERPT

“You don’t love someone because of their traits,” Sadie snapped. “I add up to more than my idiosyncrasies, more than the mere characteristics of my personality. I’m a human being with faults and fears. I make mistakes. I can be ugly, Blake. As ugly as Amanda, and far uglier than Quinn. So, no, you don’t love me. You don’t even know me.” She went to slam the door in his face.

His hand shot out, catching it and holding it. “Sadie, please.” Hardly a whisper.

Why was he doing this? With one hand, he offered her everything she wanted. With the other, he shaped it into something meaningless and lamentable.

She wanted to help him find his way, but not like this—not as the second-place runner-up for Quinn’s stand-in. “I’ve got it bad for you, Blake. You.” She took a long stride to stand in front of him and drive it home. “Not someone like you, not a suitable substitute, not someone who happens to remind me of you. I’m not settling for someone similar to you, or someone who has the same sense of humor, or the right clothes, or an interchangeable personality, or who laughs at the right jokes or cries on cue. I deserve better than that.” She clenched her jaw and ground out the last words through a sieve of iron, because it pissed her off that she needed to say them. “I am Sadie Darling Felix, and I am worth a thousand Quinns. And any man who thinks he’s going to waltz into my home and tell me I’m good enough doesn’t deserve me.”

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Running the Numbers
by Roxanne Smith

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GENRE: Contemporary Romance

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BLURB:

He’s the hot new guy in the small-town Wyoming office, a bachelor from L.A. with a trail of divorces behind him. But something about Blake Cobb has Sadie Felix setting her sites on him—even though he might just be her biggest competition in the race for a much-coveted promotion. Still, a little workplace rivalry will only make the tension between them more thrilling. At least, that’s what Sadie hopes, until she learns Blake’s already dating the boss’s daughter…
She’s an ambitious corporate climber with a face and a body that could stop a clock. Which is exactly why Blake steers clear of Sadie Felix—he’s been there, done that, with disastrous results. Besides, his new girlfriend is a dead ringer for his first love—the one who got away. But when an office scandal throws the boss’s daughter in a new—and unflattering— light, Blake’s forced to see what’s been right in front of him all along…

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MY REVIEW

4**** Very Good story

 

I related to Sadie from the very beginning, however, I had a hard time connecting with Blake. In fact, this is the reason I knocked-off one star from my rating. For almost half of the book, it felt like I was reading Amanda and Blake’s story rather than Sadie and Blake’s. And when he finally ‘sees the error of his ways’ so to speak and dumps Amanda, he totally blows it off and compare Sadie to one of his exes. Really? If he were real I could have smacked him I was so frustrated. But I guess that’s part of reading some romance stories. Sometimes the conflict part seems a bit too much. However, that didn’t mean I didn’t like the story. It has enough twists and turns to keep you going and the couple’s ups and downs were also engaging.

I recommend this book for readers looking for a quick and easy but good contemporary romance.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

A Florida native, Roxanne Smith has called everywhere from Houston to Cheyenne home. Currently residing in Asheville, NC, she’s an avid reader of every genre, a cat lover, pit bull advocate, and semi-geek. She loves video games, Doctor Who, and her dashing husband. Her two kids are the light of her life.

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