Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter (Tuesday Intros & Teaser Tuesday)

 

Title: Mr. Wrong Number

Author: Lynn Painter

Publication: 1 March 2022

Format: Kindle ebook

Amazon Description

Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall...or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a "What are you wearing?" text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining—albeit anonymous—relationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing....

Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend's annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes she's turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He's sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers she's the irresistible Miss Misdial he's been sort of sexting for weeks—and now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy.

 

Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff

Once again, I owe Berkley a huge debt of gratitude. When they first sent me an invite for Lynn Painter's upcoming The Love Wager, I almost blocked them from my inbox. I trust them, though. Their rom-coms helped me to survive the March shattering of my heart (which then on the roller-coaster from hell for almost a year), so I decided to go ahead and accept the invitation. Some day maybe possibly it would be an okay thing to attempt anything resembling romance again. Another reviewer clued me in on The Love Wager having some of the same characters as Mr. Wrong Number .... so here we are.

 

I am fairly certain that there will be no murders or serial killers in this one .... and I might even be okay with that. I've done my best to get at least somewhat over the "woe is me"-ness that has been my life for the past couple of months. I've deleted over a decades worth of messages and pictures. I've had really good talks with my closest friends about how the agony started long before I was willing to realize it. I accepted the advice of a hotel guest who suggested online dating just to have someone to talk to ... and the gift of a month of "premium" service from another.

 

I think it's time for the big test: 

 

Can I actually survive a rom-com? 

 

I'm only 20% in right now because I've actually had work to do at work (the horror!) and because I did spend twenty-four hours or more in deep "woe-is-me" mode right after I started it ... but I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be okay. I might even end up being more than okay. It probably helps that Olivia is an even bigger mess than I am, and that I've been talking to a couple of seemingly not horrible guys and with one in particular our conversations are eerily similar to the ones between Miss Misdial and Mr. Wrong Number. I may not get the Happily Ever After that I'm sure will come for these two by the end of the book, but if nothing else it's making my heart smile a little bit more than it was before I started reading. I'm calling that a win.

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"First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros" is from the first paragraph or two of a book being read now (or in the future) and is hosted by Socrates' Book Reviews. 

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