After the Kiss by Lauren Lane (Sex, Love & Stiletto #1)

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After the Kiss (Sex, Love & Stiletto, #1)
Meet Julie Greene, the dating diva columnist for the famous Stiletto Magazine and with friends Grace and Riley make up the triumvirate of Dating, Relationship and Sex.  For Julie, there is nothing more thrilling than dating, the first kiss, the flirting, the cusp of a beginning romance and then kaput she goes to the next one.  Anything more than that was well, simply boring.  Until she was assigned the article that might break her winning streak at Stiletto unless she succeeds.  

Then there is Mitchell Forbes, the straight guy, a Wall Street fellow, successful and just coming off from a two year relationship.  For Mitch, thats all he's ever had, relationships.  He's never engaged in the fun of a fling. And people around him thinks that he never could until a bet was proposed.
These two people could never be anything more than polar opposites, they would never really get attracted to one another at all, or so they thought.

This was a funny and engaging read. At first it reminded me of one of my favorite movies. Mostly because of the premise and the romantic comedy vibe that was so prevalent in the book. But all similarities ended there. Julie and Mitchell are so well defined as main characters that you would think you've met them in real life. Here are two individuals who have zero interest in each other initially and probably would not have met but for the fact of the plot device, which was the magazine article for Julie and the bet for Mitchell. It's filled with humor and witty bantering with most of the romantic tropes made fun off by the main characters themselves. Praise to Lauren Layne for being able to give life to two great characters and for writing a very good romance, a lightheartedness balanced with emotional heartbreaking scenes without the cheesy undertones. Looking forward to the next book.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC of this book in return for an honest review*


Book Summary:


Julie Greene loves flings. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. Comfy pants, sleepy Sundays, movie nights on the couch? Shudder. But when Julie gets assigned the hardest story of her career—a first-person account of that magical shift between dating and “I do”—she’ll need a man brave enough to give a total commitment-phobe a chance at more.

Normally, Mitchell Forbes would be exactly that man. A devastatingly hot workaholic who tends to stay in relationships for far too long, he should be the perfect subject for Julie’s “research.” But what Julie doesn’t know is that Mitchell is looking to cut loose for once in his life. And the leggy journalist notorious for avoiding love is exactly the type of no-strings fling he’s looking for. In other words, Mitchell is the polar opposite of what Julie needs right now. And, at the same time, he’s exactly what she wants.


Title: After the Kiss 
Author: Lauren Layne
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary
Published: August 26, 2013
Publisher: Random House-Loveswept
Rating:♨♨♨♨ 4 of 5 (Funny, engaging and sweet.  A romantic comedy with the old style witty bantering and the edge of the love in the 21st century)

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