Another fun, well-written and engaging romance from Julie James. I really liked the first in this series, and I liked this one as much. The plot is straightforward: Wine merchant and heiress Jordan is tapped by the FBI to assist them in getting access to a criminal she knows socially in return for helping her brother who is in jail for a little hacking incident. Her assigned agent is hot as fire commitment-phobe Nick, a seasoned undercover guy who recently relocated to Chicago from Brooklyn. Nick's whole Brooklyn Italian thing is pretty cliche, but also I know lots of Italians in Brooklyn whose families run pretty much the same way.

Things go as you expect and the whole thing is satisfying. Solid escapist fun. I see book 3 in my near future. ( )

Als miljardairsdochter én eigenaresse van een wijnwinkel wordt Jordan Rhodes voor de meest exclusieve feestjes in Chicago uitgenodigd. Dat komt de FBI erg goed van pas: zij willen namelijk toegang tot het jaarlijkse benefietfeest van een criminele zakenman

I lemmed this at about 60%. I quite liked it up to that, but I realized I was getting bored... I think I'm getting more picky with my romances again... ( )

Sorry, this one did not sing for me like book #1 did. I didn't like the male lead that much and then the whole book barely made any sense when it came down to the whole plot point with the female lead's brother somehow magically getting his prison sentence waved. The bad guy also seemed really dumb to me in this as well.

"A Lot Like Love" follows billionaire heiress Jordan Rhodes and FBI agent Nick McCall. Jordan is "asked" by the FBI to help them plant a listening device in a close friend's office at a party she gets asked to go to every year. If she agrees, she can help her brother who is currently in prison get his sentence dropped and he will be out of jail. Jordan balks at doing this until she realizes that if she doesn't get her brother out soon, something may happen to him while he is imprisoned.

Nick McCall is usually undercover. He thinks that the Rhodes assignment should be easy. It was until the agent who was supposed to play her boyfriend comes down with the stomach flu (yeah right plot contrivance) and then he goes as Jordan's new boyfriend to the party. Due to the man they want to eavesdrop on deciding to hire a PI to follow Nick around, Nick and Jordan have to play boyfriend/girlfriend for a lot longer than one night.

I didn't really buy the set-up in this one like I did in the last book. It also didn't help that I did not think that Jordan and Nick had any chemistry. We get to see how callous he is to a woman he was seeing long-term who he decided needed to know the score (he doesn't believe in commitment).

I was happy to see some old faces from the last book (Jack and Cameron) but it made me sad since I kept comparing them to Nick and Jordan and finding the latter lacking in every way.

The dialogue was fine, I think if the set-up and leads had been better this could have been more enjoyable than I found it. I thought the rush to "I love yous" was quite unrealistic too. At least with Jack and Cameron there was a backstory there and we knew going in they were interested in each other until the whole thing between them blew up. ( )

3.5: cute, fun, and quick read. Find it a little annoying when 2 30-somethings can't just say the thing they need to, but enjoyable regardless. ( )