Two rivals. One bet. First to fall in love wins . . .
For Nat Lane love is predictable. Controlled. Scientific. As the founder of a high-profile dating app, she is far more comfortable working on the data behind the dates than finding love herself.
Until her infuriating, but charming, business rival, Rami, publicly challenges her data.
To prove him wrong, Nat makes a bet: she’ll find her perfect match using her own dating app.
Rami must find a date the old-fashioned way.
First to find ‘the one’ wins.
But as the competition heats up, so does their chemistry. Until the lines between rivalry and romance begin to blur.
Nat set out to prove love is a science. But with Rami, it might just be something far more unpredictable . . .
Tropes:
🎉 Rivals-to-lovers
❤️ Slow burn
❤️ Heroine in STEM
❤️ Opposites attract
❤️ Grumpy x Sunshine
❤️ Opposites attract
Paula Rogers is a twice BAFTA-nominated writer in video games, journalism, film, and television. Her work in print and radio has been featured by San Francisco’s KQED Public Radio, National Public Radio, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and Salon. Her writing for screenplays and games has received awards from IndieCade, Austin Film Festival, and the Humanitas Prize. She was Lead Writer and Story Editor of the game Neo Cab, which was named one of the best titles of 2019 by the L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and Paste Magazine. She was a writer and narrative designer with Sweet Baby, Inc., a lead writer on the 2023 Tribeca award-winning game Goodbye Volcano High, and has worked on IP for Marvel, DC, and others. She is also the creator of the anti-dating app, rom-com webcomic, Blind Data, where she chronicles her dating experiences and draws the men as cats.
My thoughts: This was a fun rom com set in San Francisco where two app developers make a rather public bet to find love – one, Nat, via her dating app, and the other, Rami, the old-fashioned way – in person.
Nat relies on data and analytics to match her with her “ideal” man and Rami has to speak to women in public and hopefully not scare them off. It’s a struggle for both of them, Nat’s been single a long time, and Rami isn’t the most confident man.
But their secret meet-ups to debrief have them discovering that they might have more in common than Nat’s app would believe. And it’s not long before they want to spend time together – not on terrible dates. Oops.
Fun, funny and with two protagonists who come to realise the person you find utterly infuriating, might just be your person.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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Thank you so much for being a part of the tour x
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