I really enjoyed this book by Lauren Blakely! I loved this story about a young man named Flynn Parker who is a good looking, a nerd, and founded a tech company with his identical twin brother, Dylan, and then they sold it to become a multi-millionaires. Flynn has recently had his heart broken by his best friend from college, who he had a crush on for years, but who kept him in the "friend zone" until he ended up with lots of money. As soon as he realized that she was just after him for his bank account, Flynn broke up with her, but his heart was crushed. Now he would like to find a girl who wants to be with him just because she likes him, and he doesn't know who he can trust. Flynn is going to be attending a masquerade party where he is to be one of the keynote speakers, but he hasn't decided yet what his costume will be since he finds out the afternoon of the day of the party that one of his employees is going to be wearing the costume that he had planned to wear.
The story is also about a girl named Sabrina Granger, who was recently dumped by her ex-fiance two days before their wedding was supposed to be, after he announced that he needed a change and was moving to China and he didn't invite her to go with him. Sabrina has also recently been let go from her job as a reporter for a print publication, as were half of the other employees there, because the publication is losing money. Sabrina has lots of bills piling up and she needs to find another job as soon as possible. She is currently living in a tiny apartment in Manhattan that belongs to her cousin, who is currently traveling in Europe, and Sabrina's afraid of becoming homeless when her cousin returns from her trip. Sabrina gets invited to attend a masquerade party by her best friend, Courtney, who is a venture capitalist and is determined to get Sabrina out to have some fun since she's been living like a hermit since her break up. Sabrina decides to attend the party because she has nothing to lose by going, and can maybe do some networking while she's there since a bunch of people from tech publications will be at the party, too. Before she attends the masquerade party, that afternoon Sabrina is contacted by the owner of a magazine where she has always wanted to work, and she is asked to set up an interview with Flynn Parker, one of the latest young tech geniuses, so that she can write an article about him for the owners magazine. If the owner of the magazine likes what Sabrina has written, he will offer her a job at the magazine and she will land her dream job. Sabrina calls Flynn Parker's company and sets up the interview for two days after the masquerade party. Sabrina feels that finally her luck may be changing.
When Sabrina goes to the party she meets a very handsome man dressed in black, who she is immediately attracted to because of his kissable lips, gorgeous green eyes, and his great sense of humor; she ends up having sex with him in the library of the hotel. Coincidentally, Flynn meets a a woman at the party, dressed like an angel, who he ends up having sex with up against the wall in the library in the hotel, and he desperately wants to see her again and get to know her better. But when the couple agrees to meet each other again the next day at a bar called The Dollhouse, Sabrina is confused because the man who meets her there turns out to be Flynn Parker. Sabrina explains to Flynn that she really didn't know who he was at the masquerade party, (because Flynn becomes suspicious of her motives), and so they decide that they cannot possibly see each other again socially since she doesn't want her new employer to think that she is writing a biased article about Flynn. Once again Sabrina feels that she can't have it all since she meets the man of her dreams, but this man comes between her and her dream job.
Lauren Blakely has written a modern Cinderella story that is steamy, but filled with humor and possible heartbreak. This book is extremely entertaining and so I highly recommend it! I can't wait to read her next book!
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The mouths of the men in masquerade were made for sin. For making a woman weak in the knees—drunk on a kiss. Another Lauren Blakely book read, another Lauren Blakely book loved. I’ve just finished Come As You Are and I can’t wipe the smile off my face. It’s a sweet and sexy story, a fun twist on both the forbidden love and friends-to-lovers trope, and so incredibly easy to just enjoy. Perhaps it’s the way that Flynn and Sabrina verbally spar—delighting in grammar and patterns and puzzles. Or the way their little touches feel so intense and so right. Or maybe it’s the way Ms. Blakely uses the city—New York City, that is—as a third character in this story. Exploring with Flynn and Sabrina is as much fun as their other, more personal moments, and I am always so blown away at this author’s ability to make the setting so vital to the story. After all, this book wouldn’t be this book without keys and elevators and lampposts and abandoned stations. Just like this review wouldn’t be this review if I didn’t take a second to explain one of the biggest things I loved about Come As You Are—the way it brings to mind Far Too Tempting. It remains my favorite book penned by Ms. Blakely and, forgive me this pun, it’s far too tempting to see parallels between this book and Matthew and Jane’s story—in a good way, of course. It made me smile to think of my favorite couple, to see shades and hints of them in Flynn and Sabrina. A smile I simply cannot wipe that smile off my face . . . “Okay, you’re too tempting. You practically seduced me with a pineapple and the Fibonacci sequence.” I pump a fist. “Nerds for the win.” ~ FIVE Starry Night STARS ~
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