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A review by mjsam
Perfect Partners by Maggie Cummings
3.0
ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I’ve read two previous Cummings stories, one was [b:Totally Worth It|25159209|Totally Worth It (Bay West Social, #1)|Maggie Cummings|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444747485s/25159209.jpg|44862772], which I didn’t like and the other was [b:Against All Odds|41135613|Against All Odds|Kris Bryant|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1534176271s/41135613.jpg|64281050], which was co-written with Kris Bryant and M Ullrich, which I did enjoy, so I decided to give another full novel by Cummings a go and chose this one because it wasn’t part of the Worth It verse.
This is fairly straight forward read, and I liked it without loving it. Sara is a K9 trainer and Izzy is an NYPD officer doing K9 training. Both characters are interesting, but Izzy is the clear winner here, she’s sweet, funny, kind, and smart. Sara is supposed to be smart but proved to be otherwise due to her ridiculous unawareness of her weird (and co-dependent) relationship with her ex. This is despite Izzy repeatedly calling Sara out on this.
Sara’s reluctance to date Izzy because she’s a cop, even while totally leading her on all the time also got old, and that doesn’t improve until the 50% mark, and then gets swapped for ‘but what if something happens to you?’, so that was fun. Her reluctance to acknowledge her relationship with Izzy was also annoying. All in all, Sara’s a bit of a drag.
Sara’s backstory also didn’t make much sense, they establish that she has a second family that she’s close to, but she doesn’t spend holidays with them? I found that weird. Izzy’s relationship with her family was sweet though.
The two are cute when flirting/spending time together that doesn’t involve these issues, but there wasn’t enough of that for me. The requisite drama was also telegraphed, albeit over quickly, it would have made more sense if Nicole (Sara’s ex) had actually appeared in the book before this event instead of just being mentioned 6000 times.
Chase (K9 dog) is a superstar, and any scenes with him were fun, unfortunately I liked him more than Sara, which didn’t help.
I did enjoy this more than my first try of Cumming’s work, and would read another by her depending on the topic. 3 stars.
I’ve read two previous Cummings stories, one was [b:Totally Worth It|25159209|Totally Worth It (Bay West Social, #1)|Maggie Cummings|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444747485s/25159209.jpg|44862772], which I didn’t like and the other was [b:Against All Odds|41135613|Against All Odds|Kris Bryant|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1534176271s/41135613.jpg|64281050], which was co-written with Kris Bryant and M Ullrich, which I did enjoy, so I decided to give another full novel by Cummings a go and chose this one because it wasn’t part of the Worth It verse.
This is fairly straight forward read, and I liked it without loving it. Sara is a K9 trainer and Izzy is an NYPD officer doing K9 training. Both characters are interesting, but Izzy is the clear winner here, she’s sweet, funny, kind, and smart. Sara is supposed to be smart but proved to be otherwise due to her ridiculous unawareness of her weird (and co-dependent) relationship with her ex. This is despite Izzy repeatedly calling Sara out on this.
Sara’s reluctance to date Izzy because she’s a cop, even while totally leading her on all the time also got old, and that doesn’t improve until the 50% mark, and then gets swapped for ‘but what if something happens to you?’, so that was fun. Her reluctance to acknowledge her relationship with Izzy was also annoying. All in all, Sara’s a bit of a drag.
Sara’s backstory also didn’t make much sense, they establish that she has a second family that she’s close to, but she doesn’t spend holidays with them? I found that weird. Izzy’s relationship with her family was sweet though.
The two are cute when flirting/spending time together that doesn’t involve these issues, but there wasn’t enough of that for me. The requisite drama was also telegraphed, albeit over quickly, it would have made more sense if Nicole (Sara’s ex) had actually appeared in the book before this event instead of just being mentioned 6000 times.
Chase (K9 dog) is a superstar, and any scenes with him were fun, unfortunately I liked him more than Sara, which didn’t help.
I did enjoy this more than my first try of Cumming’s work, and would read another by her depending on the topic. 3 stars.