Oh Isla. Dear, stubborn Isla. I’m wanted to like you but you blew it at the end. For a woman everyone lauded as so selfless, she certainly had nothing to give Reuben, who gave her everything.

OK, so when this whole thing starts, Isla and Ruben see each other and are immediately attracted to each other. Only she assumes he’s a broke college student. And since she’s struggling herself, having to pay alimony to her worthless ex-husband, she feels she doesn’t have time for Reuben. But Reuben proves to be persistent and finally makes his way into her bed. And then into her heart. And then into her business when she finds out that he’s actually a billionaire investor. She finally begins to relax and believe they could have something special. But then she gets a surprise that puts all of that at risk. And she decides she can’t trust him after all.

This is where Isla loses me. The “surprise” throws her for a loop. And she immediately believes the worst about Reuben. Meanwhile, Reuben is off dealing with a dire family emergency and Isla can’t even be bothered to take a phone call to let him explain himself or even to tell her that he is at a family member’s death bed. So not only does he have to deal with that terrible situation all by himself without the woman he loves, he has to worry about how he’s going to explain the misunderstanding to her. And even when he does, he still has to grovel and prove to her that she can trust him. Like I said before. Too stubborn. We didn’t even get a scene where Isla at least felt bad that she made the poor man go through his family tragedy all alone.

And her friends weren’t much better. They didn’t even encourage her to talk to the man and get his side of the story. They were just ready for her to move on. I’m really trying to like this series. But it gets so predictable with the unnecessary and overblown drama that shows up 74% into the book and resolves itself by the man turning himself inside out to fix things when half the time the problem is the woman simply being super stubborn and unwilling to just listen. Nevertheless, these couples do get their happily ever after. But sometimes it’s not quite as satisfying as you would think it would be.

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