Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett (Author)
Barely Even Friends is a romance with a lot of drama thrown in. Brek-up and make-ups will keep you on the edge of your seat. Before I tell you what I think of Barely Even Friends I would like to introduce you to Ambrose and Sebastian friends me meet in the book who were a lot of are fun. I think they should have there own story to tell.
The main character Bellamy has worked alongside her father in Price Restorations, working on fixing houses and giving those homes a new life. Then she gets the opportunity to work on Oliver’s mansion or shall we say his grandfather’s mansion, which needed work to help bring it back to the grandeur it once was.
Oliver is also one of the main characters and he is a grumpy man who didn’t want to deal with someone like Bellamy coming into his home, but even a man such as himself couldn’t stay away from her. We learn Bellamy is a sassy, hard working female lead, dealing with a grumpy secluded rich heir, hiding away in a mansion, and more brought this story to a modern take.
About the book:
A grumpy, rich recluse meets his match in this steamy Beauty and the Beast retelling—with a Succession twist. Fans of fairy tale adaptations, and readers of Julie Murphy and Falon Ballard, will adore Mae Bennett’s debut romance.
Bellamy Price has just been offered the job of a lifetime: lead contractor on the restoration of the mysterious and sprawling Killington Estate. If she meets the owner’s ridiculous timeline, she’ll finally make a name for herself in this male-dominated industry. But when she rolls up her sleeves, slips on her suspenders, and shows up at the crumbling mansion, Bellamy finds the estate very much occupied.
After a traumatic car accident that left his parents dead and himself injured, Oliver Killington, heir to the Killington empire, took up residence as the grumpy caretaker of his grandfather’s mansion. None too pleased by the presence of the hammer-wielding woman who’s moved into his house, Oliver tries to block her at every turn.
But when Bellamy discovers Oliver’s facing his own ultimatum from his grandfather, the two form a cautious truce, which leads to flying sparks that are definitely not from faulty wiring. As Bellamy restores the gleam to the Killington Estate, she’ll have to decide if the walls she’s built around herself are worth knocking down to make space for someone else.
Perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey, this clever, steamy debut novel will have readers rooting for this Beauty and her Beast until the very last page.
Meet the author: Mae Bennett
Mae Bennett is a hopeless romantic who enjoys imagining and writing happily ever after’s in her free time. A voracious reader and reviewer of romance books while her cat, King Louis, rules from his throne. She bookstagrams her love of romance novels as @twiceuponabook.
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