Keeping Mr. Right Now by Robin Bielman – a Review

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DESCRIPTION
A temporary agreement neither could keep…

Brainy, organized Sophie Birch is no beach bunny. In fact, she’s totally out of her element among the sun-bronzed crowd at a film festival in beautiful White Strand Cove. When a surf lesson introduces her to Zane Hollander, suddenly she’s up close and personal with the world’s sexiest surf star. But what can a great-looking, experienced athlete possibly see in a klutzy out-of-towner who’s never set foot in the ocean?

Zane Hollander’s playboy reputation has never been a problem…until recently. Now his management team wants him on his best behavior to entice a meaningful new sponsor. Sophie Birch is the perfect girl to help reform his image. She’s genuine and respected—and their relationship is purely fictional. But the more Sophie blooms under the beachy sun, the more Zane knows he’ll just break her heart. Because nothing’s more important to Zane than following the tide.

REVIEW

4 out of 5 for this reader folks!

What happens when you just can’t seem to find Mr. Right? You search and find Mr. Right Now!

Keeping Mr. Right Now by Robin Bielman is a wonderful contemporary romance that revolves around one lovely geek girl and a beautiful surfer dude. A light and predictable story that engages the reader right from the start and reveals that beauty doesn’t always exist on the surface alone, but goes deep down where it truely counts.

Zane Hollander is a surf professional, bad boy, who enjoys women falling all over themselves over him. The guys loves his athleticism and babe catching ways, the girls love … well just about everything. Zane is attempting to catch the eye of a prosperous and much admired sponsor and is told that his “bad boy” ways have to go. Serious about this future career changing move, Zane agrees to find the perfect person for his image.

Sophie Birch is the epitome of geek. She is kind, very smart, super klutzy, serious, mature and REALLY beautiful underneath her black rimmed glasses . When she takes a surf lesson from Zane, the prospect of her helping his image blooms and once she is confronted, she agrees to spend public time with Zane in hopes that the sponsors see his serious side.

The inevitable happens however, once these two begin to spend time with the other. Sophie embraces beach life and Zane cannot believe the transformation she goes through. Zane also realizes that his attraction to the hot geeky girl has nothing to do (well mostly nothing … lol) with her outer beauty, and more to do with her inner beauty. Sophie also sees a side of the stud like Zane that is not typical of a bad boy. Suddenly these two realize that Right Now just may be RIGHT but a few hurdles have to be jumped first.

I can see this being a great beach read. It’s heart warming and I found I smiled quite a bit throughout. Quite PG compared to some of my other reads (which is refreshing) there was a nice build up of sexual tension, a genuine falling in love, a conflict and a happy ending. My only real negative comment is that it was a little slow. I had to push myself through some pages and I had that “let’s get on with it already” feeling a few times. On a positive note, I think Sophie’s geek and Zane’s sensitivity is what made them so hot and perfect for each other.

I am looking forward to the next book of this series which may just have been built up for us!

HAPPY READING! 🙂

Reviewed by Rachel

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