Review: Not Quite Over You by Susan Mallery

Author: Susan Mallery
Publisher: Harlequin
Date of publication: October 2018

Silver Tesdal has a head for business and a mouth made for kissing, and banker Drew Lovato has his eye on both. But ever since he was dumb enough to let her go, she’s kept him at a distance. When the bank turns her down for a loan, Drew sees a double opportunity—he can finance her brilliant, unique idea to rock Happily Inc’s wedding industry and win back her trust.

Despite her reputation, Silver’s not as tough as she seems. Losing Drew nearly destroyed her. Still, his kisses are as tempting as his offer to invest in her business. If she can’t quite get over him, maybe she should get under him and knock him out of her system once and for all.

But her best laid plans begin to unravel as Silver finds herself falling even harder than when they were high school sweethearts. Which means that she’ll have to come clean about the secret she’s been hiding from him for years—and risk losing him forever.

Not Quite Over You is the fourth book in the Happily Inc series.  This is Silver and Drew's story.  I have to admit, that overall, I have been pretty underwhelmed with this series so far; this latest installment included.  The main reason has been the main couple in each book.  Like Silver and Drew, I have just not felt the attraction or any heat between them to make their HEAs believable.  

In this book, Silver and Drew were in love the summer before he went off to college. Silver broke up with him so he would leave and be able to spread his wings.  With this being a second chance romance, you would think there would be more emotion and at least attraction.  But that really wasn't any.  To me, they were probably to most boring couple out of the four we have read about so far.  

The story also felt unfocused as we don't spend most of our time with the main couple.  Instead, there is a lot of time spent focusing on Bethany and Cade and their "royal"shower and wedding problem.  I didn't read their novella, but I found Bethany's whining about her royal family a bit over the top.  I also could have done without the Wynn/Jasper storyline.  It really added nothing to the book. Wynn's story has been hinted at over the past 3 books now.  It would have been nice to get some closure on it here, but instead, we just get more of the same teaser.

Overall, this was just an OK read for me again.  The HEA was cute, so it had that going for it. I still am a big fan of this author and her other books.  I just wish I clicked more with this series.