The Ex Files: A Small Town Matchmaker Romance (Ocean View Series Book 1)

2.75 ⭐️This book was a quick and easy read. First for me by this author, I would be happy to read others I’m not running to Amazon or anything but I’d definitely like to check out others.- Dual POV- Grumpy/sunshine in reverse- Small town romance- ‘She’s the one’Our two leads are Luke and Cassie, she is a bad@SS lady boss and he is a dirty talking machine.Cassie dates for a living, she started her own business from her dorm room and now she is a successful businesswoman who helps others find love. Ween out the creeps and the weirdos for those looking for a serious relationship. Though for a woman who can easily believe that love is out there for everyone, she doesn’t believe it for herself. She has a troubled past with her family and it’s made her jaded. Doesn’t help that due to her family she has many insecurities that she can’t get over.So when she goes on a date and Luke decides he’s playing for keeps, he wants her not a set up with someone else. How will she react? Will she let her walls down or will she build them so high even his dirty talking can’t break them.Luke comes from a beautiful family, they come from money but more than that, they have been the picture perfect HEA. When he sees this sassy, quick mouthed woman on the side of the road he knows he wants more of her, no way to find her and then BAM the dating company his sister made him use throws her right in front of him again. He isn’t going to waste this chance, two dates will never be enough.Is he determined enough to smash down her walls or will he mess it up before it even gets started?Can he make her see how beautiful she really is?One thing I was really made at the book for is the two weeks we missed, we missed them dating more than the ‘3 dates’ we missed them typically falling in love and it’s such a shame cause I think that would have been great to see. It definitely effected my rating here.All in all it was a cute, slightly hot, quick read.

Cassies and Lukes chemistry from when they met at the restaurant was definitely love at first sight. I loved how luke kept trying to bring her out of her shell. She made some awesome friends thanks to him. I loved when cassie finally realised shes worth a lot more then she gave herself credit for.

Cute story, but very hard to read due to formatting and grammar issues. Dialogue is confusing and doesn't flow right as the author doesn't reliably use speaker tags or clearly imply who's speaking. Also, a couple times the POV character changed in the middle of a page with no warning

Very sweet book, cute romance, honestly a perfect hallmark movie. Loved how Luke the MMC just decided nope this girl is for me, and spent the rest of the book working through her walls. We all need a man with as many green flags as that

It's not every day you see a man fight this hard for a woman. They were perfect for each other.