RIGHT GUY, WRONG WORD by Jewel E Ann -review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 3, 2023

Do books have souls?

Anna Black has the perfect novel choice for her book club. She also has a sexy new neighbor who jumps at the opportunity to join fellow bookworms in discussing her pick for their summer read.

It’s lust at first sight and the marriage of two literary souls.

The charismatic owner of a new T-shirt store in Des Moines’s East Village, Eric Steinmann, has a confident air and an irresistible “mating dance.” He’s almost perfect … until he says the wrong word.

Will Anna and Eric write their own story? Or will their chemistry die when fiction turns into reality?

**Right Guy, Wrong Word was originally written as a short story, The Last Person. It’s been revised with significant changes to the original content and extended into a full-length novel.

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REVIEW: RIGHT GUY, WRONG WORD by Jewel E Ann is a contemporary, adult, romance story line focusing on Anna Black, and Eric Steinmann.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Anna and Eric) RIGHT GUY, WRONG WORD follows the building but contemptuous relationship between Anna Black and Eric Steinmann. Eric Steinmann is Anna Black’s new neighbor, and as such, Anna invites Eric to her weekly book club discussion but Eric’s one-word criticism of Anna’s favorite book throws our heroine off of her game, and in the ensuing aftermath, Anna’s immature behavior and attitude towards Eric is questionable at best. Several nights together, several weeks of getting to know one another end when Eric, once again, reiterates his criticisms of the book Anna loves, and our couple are forced to go their separate ways. Three years will pass, Anna has moved but an accident will result in Eric’s return to her life, a return that struggles in the face of Anna’s inability to let go.

The world building focuses on the encroaching war between our story line couple. Anna is so upset about Eric’s criticism of her favorite book, that no amount of grovelling will help Eric’s case. Anna’s behavior towards Eric is childish; immature and caustic, and as such, Eric must walk away before Anna implodes. Three years will pass, as Anna comes to terms with what happened and why. Secrets will reveal the basis for Anna’s unwarranted anger but Eric may not be the only person who dislikes the book that Anna loves.

The relationship between Eric and Anna begins as neighbors, a relationship that will deteriorate quickly over a short period of time. Anna’s attitude leaves much to be desired by our story line hero but Eric keeps persisting, insisting it is his right to criticize, like or dislike any book that he reads. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include several members of Anna’s book club, as well as Eric’s embittered and embattled father, Anna’s parents, and Anna’s roommate Shaun.

RIGHT GUY, WRONG WORD is a story of secrets and lies, anger and immaturity, growth and understanding, happiness and love but I struggled with the heroine’s attitude and behavior throughout most of the story-her immature actions affected my overall enjoyment of the story line premise. As to the hero’s insistence upon his right to critique, like or dislike a book, it is something that many ‘reviewers’ and ‘readers’ encounter at one time or another- the backlash is often quite unexpected. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but sometimes the opinion is not what they wanted to hear.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.

With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.

After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.

When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.