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BOOKWORM REVIEW: The Grumpy Billionaire by Tru Taylor


RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
STEAM: 🔥🔥.5

I am always down for a visit to Eastport Bay, and this time Tru Taylor takes us on a second-chance romance between Reid and Mara.

Reid and Mara were once so in love, but class and social standing got in the way. Mara was from the upper-class crowd of Eastport Bay. Her father was an up-and-coming politician who did not like his daughter getting close with the housekeeper's son.

Their whirlwind young love was suddenly cut short by Mara's departure; she did not even say goodbye to Reid.

Years later, Reid is now a reclusive billionaire whose social platform has surpassed every other in popularity. Media outlets are clamoring for an interview, but he refuses to grant one, except for Mara. She is now a rising journalist who is trying to pave her way through life without any help from her family. Given no choice by her boss, she must now face the man she left. Will she be able to get through this without letting him discover the secrets she's kept from him and without falling for him all over again?

This was a more angsty read compared to Tru Taylor's previous books in the series. The emotionally loaded history between Reid and Mara brings out all of the feels. Their relationship is a very tangled web, but I really liked how Tru Taylor lets us peel the layers on a complicated love as we go through the story. Reid is a great MMC. Even though he is also this universe's Grumpy, he is kind and loyal.

Even though I would consider the spice level to be somewhere between mild and medium, Reid and Mara's chemistry and re-connection are the foundation of this book and makes the read worth it.

This book is a standalone, but folks who are not new to the series get wonderful cameos and Easter eggs from past books.

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. Thank you to Tru Taylor and Give Me Books Promotions for providing an ARC. **

ABOUT THE BOOK

When we last saw each other eleven years ago, I would have bet everything I owned, would’ve bet my mother’s life that Reid Mancini loved me. I knew that because I loved him, too. Madly, passionately, with every fiber of my seventeen-year-old being.

And that was why I made sure after our high school graduation night I would never see him again.

So much for that plan.

My new TV reporting job is both good and bad. Good because it’s a great step up career-wise. Bad because it’s a little too close to home… and to him, the only guy who’s ever tempted me to let go and love someone.

Now my first love is all grown up with a full-grown man’s size and power and an oversized cocky attitude to match. With the world’s largest social media network to his name, he’s got all the fame and fortune he ever wanted and then some.

Oh, and he hates me.

Not that I can blame him.

He has no idea why I abandoned him so suddenly… or how often I still think of him. He won’t find out either—not if I have anything to do with it.

Everything would’ve been fine if he’d just stuck to his famously aloof no-talking-to-the-media policy. But no, he’s decided to give his first ever television interview. And he says he’ll talk only to me.

If I could turn him down without losing my job, I’d do it in a heartbeat. That’s how desperately I don’t want to be in the same room with him, talking one-on-one, on camera for God’s sake. But in TV news, ratings rule—and hot, hard-to-get billionaires are ratings gold.

So I have to spend a week with him getting the story. It’s the only way to keep my job.

I just hope I can keep my secrets in the process.

It’s only a week. I can do this. Seven days. Two ex-lovers. One last chance.

Now we’ll see exactly how much of a difference a decade can make… and how impossible it may be to leave the past behind.


THE GRUMPY BILLIONAIRE is a hot small-town romance take on Sleeping Beauty. It’s a standalone enemies to lovers, second chance romance filled with heart, heat, and grumpy billionaire romcom fun!

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MEET TRU TAYLOR

Award-winning romance author Tru Taylor writes romantic comedies to make you swoon, smile, and snort with laughter.

She runs on Coke Zero and dark chocolate, lives for lunches with her girlfriends, and drives to the town beach several times a week to watch the sun set over the water.

She loves LOVE and will attempt to turn any show or movie she’s watching into a romance whether it is one or not. Star Wars? A romance. Lord of the Rings? Clearly a romance. The Expendables? Okay, well not even Tru can redeem that one.

When she’s not writing, Tru enjoys watching movies and reading books with happy endings, spending time with her husband and two kids, and sneaking Hershey’s Kisses from the top shelf of the freezer throughout the day. (Top shelf because… two kids. Enough said.)

Tru is the author of the Eastport Bay small town rom com series and loves living in a small New England town where she’s surrounded every day by the beautiful coastal setting you see brought to life in her books.

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