Good At Being Alive
A brand new emotional and hilarious summer romance that is the perfect beach read
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
A party girl and a grumpy British CEO fake a dream European honeymoon for a reality TV show that could save their travel agency—and give them both a new lease on life (and love)—if only they’d take the chance.
“Smart, sharp, sizzling.”—Elsie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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Rebecca “Bex” Daniels has just lost her entire family in a freak train accident, leaving her completely alone in the world and responsible for their travel agency. Only a few months after the tragedy, her father’s UK partner, the straitlaced Theo Porter, reveals that the business is about to go under. Their only hope? A reality TV deal brokered before her father’s death . . . with a rebrand: Bex and Theo are to pose as newlyweds, exploring the world on an extended honeymoon.
Bex and Theo couldn’t be more different—but though they initially clash, Bex soon discovers he’s amusing, protective, and kind, the sort of man she’d want to be married to in real life, if she thought for a second she deserved him. As for Theo, he can’t help but be swept up into the brilliant whirlwind that is Bex, but ever since his brother died, a real relationship is the last thing he wants.
As Bex and Theo flit across Europe, from Capri to Paris, exploring sun-drenched villas and remote fjords, they can’t help but notice their walls coming down, and their arguments begin to feel a lot more like foreplay than fighting. But they each carry around more than enough emotional baggage, and they’ll have to contend with public scandals and crushing grief before they can decide if they’re ready to ride off into the sunset once the cameras stop rolling.
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Praise for Good At Being Alive
‘O’Roark’s writing is absolutely addictive. . .Prepare to stay up all night reading this one!’—Julie Olivia, USA Today bestselling author of IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY
‘Smart, sharp, and wildly addictive.'—Kandi Steiner, USA Today bestselling author
‘Good at Being Alive is Elizabeth O’Roark at her BEST. . .Everything I love in an EPIC ROMANCE. Nobody writes witty banter like Elizabeth O’Roark!'—Laura Pavlov, USA Today bestselling author
‘Elizabeth O’Roark delivers her best yet with Good at Being Alive, a swoony slow-burn romance brimming with European charm and pure escapism.’—R. S. Grey, USA Today bestselling author
‘Elizabeth O’Roark never misses for me. Good at Being Alive is everything I love about her work: witty banter, a snarky-yet-sexy hero, and a romance that kept me turning pages until the end.’—Jana Aston, New York Times bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A travel agency goes to unlikely lengths to stay in business in this disappointing contemporary from O'Roark (the Favorites series). After spirited Rebecca "Bex" Daniels's father, stepmother, and stepsister die in a freak train accident, she's left to take over the New Jersey travel agency co-owned by her father's young but stodgy British business partner, Theo Porter. The pair have vastly different styles, and the company is on the brink of bankruptcy. To save it, this opposites attract pair hatch an implausible scheme: they'll get married and televise their whirlwind honeymoon as a reality show. Their on-camera banter highlights the sexual tension between them, and Theo soon realizes that Bex is playing herself down: her unintelligent party girl persona is a facade she developed to appease her jealous stepmother. As Theo and Bex jet between romantic locations, from Reykjavík to Madeira, their mutual unburdening of their past tragedies, including his brother's suicide and her family's deaths, leads to a love and understanding neither anticipated. The angst is heavy-handed, and the prickly characters are difficult to root for; while still in the enemies phase of their relationship, Bex makes multiple jokes about getting Theo deported, and Theo reveals that he hasn't met his late brother's son because it would mean interacting with his "whore of a mother." The reality show conceit and vibrant destinations add some fun, but readers will struggle with this.
