<b>Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.</b>

Apologies all, work is crazy and I had reviews sitting in a document that I posted while I had some time to myself. This wasn't that great. Give me a second chance romance and marriage of convenience and I can usually get into it. But, I started this book in July and it took me until November to get back to because it was not very good unfortunately. I think that Rainbow Rowell recently did a second chance romance better in my eyes because you have the two adults actually talk about what happened. I just can't with these books that have people acting as if they are teenagers when they are not.

"The Co-op" follows two friends (teen years) whose grandmothers left them shared ownership of a building. The two leads, LaRynn (which I won't lie I kept messing up her name) and Deacon were just boring and I didn't get any sense of chemistry from the two of them. Long story short, LaRynn has a trust she can't touch until she's married [we are still doing this shit? I guess with Trump 2.0 though it may become a reality that women can't have bank accounts again] and Deacon needs money for his business. 

I think that this book was a very rough first draft but there were not enough pieces for this to be an enjoyable romance novel.