Not as good of a story as masters. Ways it wasn’t as good - the heroine was a spoiled sheltered rich girl who was spineless. What bothered me even more than the fact she “fell in love” so quickly was that she went from her brother and father railroading her in to letting Spencer speak for her. I do believe Spencer at least believed that she was strong in her own right and should be making her own choices as an adult. But he was spoiling for a fight so bad he didn’t even give her the opportunity to deal with her own shit before he made declarations for her.
I do t mind Spencer’s background and history as playboy - not at all. It’s not unbelievable that he would have interest in charlotte, or she in him. I think both felt things they never felt before. Was it love? I don’t buy it. It wasn’t as is the love was built on anything substantive. They were smitten, yes. But the I love you’d got nauseating and you just knew something was going to come out of left field. And it did. And it was realistic. What wasn’t realistic to me was the “reconciliation”. He was angry, she didn’t listen to him and ignored his wishes to be left alone. Then wakes him in the morning with a BJ. It felt icky to me. Consent goes both ways sweetheart. The reconciliation at the end didn’t ring true either.