Review: Just Not That Into Billionaires (Billionaires of Manhattan #6) by Annika Martin
/Francine is stunned when she discovers she's been married—for the last ten years—to Benny, her surly, nerdy frenemy she worked with one summer in Vegas.
How in the world did they end up married? Though there was a certain drunken night...
She tracks Benny down, sure he'll be as shocked about the marriage as she is, sure he'll be happy to dissolve their union ASAP so she can get the documents she desperately needs.
She's surprised to find that Benny is now a cold, wolfish billionaire. And yes, he'll sign the paperwork...for a price: she has to spend the next three weeks playing his adoring wife. –
I had an interesting experience with Just Not That Into Billionaires. And I ultimately am deciding that it wasn’t for me. I wasn’t immediately drawn into the story in the beginning. I will admit I was a tad confused. And that could be my fault since I had gone in with expectations this was a fake marriage type of situation. It’s not.
Benny and Francine got married ten years ago in Vegas, and she finds out when she’s trying to get a visa so that she can go on tour. When she confronts Benny about a divorce, he refuses and then agrees to sign the paperwork if she acts as his wife for three weeks.
Once the actual plot was revealed, the book got more interesting. Benny and Francine had the whole friend enemy thing going on ten years ago, and the mystery of why Benny wanted to keep the marriage up was enough to keep me reading. Then, it was revealed why and my interest in the story started deflating a little.
I didn’t care for either Benny or Francine as characters. They both felt off to me. I never truly bought their relationship. And some of the things they said to each felt stiff and unrealistic.
Final Thoughts
Just Not That Into Billionaires was okay. Some of the romance aspect felt off and the jarring plot point in the end felt completely left field.
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