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Finding Cupid by Bridget E. Baker

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: Romance
Content: Clean


There are two things event planner Geo Polson will not do. She never plans weddings, and she never ever dates. No exceptions.

Billionaire venture capitalist Trig Thornton doesn't worry about rules. After all, you don't finish first by staying in your lane. But when his best friend forces him to help plan a bachelor party, he doesn't expect the wedding planner to catch his interest.

Geo's already broken one cardinal rule at the behest of her bestie. There's no way she's going to so much as bend another. But Trig isn't easily dissuaded, and he's set his sights on her. Will he heal Geo's wounded heart, or shatter it to pieces?

Finding Cupid is a fun Valentines read. I read the first book in this series, Finding Santa at Christmas time and loved it, so I was looking forward to reading this one. Overall I liked this and had a hard time putting it down, although I did not like it as much as Finding Santa.

Obviously this is a romance, and I don't usually read romances unless they are historical, but Bridget Baker is an author I'll make a exception for because I enjoy her novels so much. There were several things about this book that I loved. I loved how cute Geo and Trig were together, I loved how the author inserted herself into the book at one point (Geo is reading a book and talks about the author, who happens to resemble this one an awful lot). I loved that the book incorporated several different locations. I loved that we got to revisit Mary, Luke, and other characters from Finding Santa. And I loved how everyone in the book thought Mary was weird for her love of doing taxes, which I thought too when I read that book.

As for the characters, I liked the main character Geo a lot, but Trig had to grow on me. Luckily it didn't take too long for that to happen, but I didn't like the way he manipulated her into going skiing, even if she did end up enjoying it. Also his lack of awareness of how his whims could inconvenience other people put me off a little as well. At first he just seemed like one of those rich guys who thinks he can have whatever he wants whenever he wants it, but in the end his heart was in the right place and I ended up liking him quite a lot.

The same tropes used in most romance novels were used in this one, but I thought they were done well, and the reservations the couple had about falling in love made sense considering their backgrounds. I think the supporting characters are all great, especially Paisley, who I'm expecting will get her own book eventually. I'm enjoying this series, and I'm looking forward to reading the next book. If you like clean contemporary romance then you should give this series a try.

Thanks to the author for providing me with an ARC of this book.