Book Review | Blog Tour:
Do Your Worst
In partnership with Berkley as part of its blog tour, this week I am excited to share some features about Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan, a contemporary, paranormal romance that’s OUT NOW!
In case you missed it, be sure to read yesterday’s post, where I shared a non-exclusive excerpt from the book.
Today I’ve got my review of Do Your Worst — check it out, below!
DO YOUR WORST
BY ROSIE DANAN
Contemporary Romance|Paranormal Romance
Published by Berkley
November 14, 2023
352 pages
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SYNOPSIS
Sparks fly when an occult expert and a disgraced archeologist become enemies-with-benefits in this steamy romance.
Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family’s knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she’s hired to break the curse on an infamous Scottish castle. Used to working alone in her alienating occupation, she’s pleasantly surprised to meet a handsome stranger upon arrival—until he tries to get her fired.
Fresh off a professional scandal, Clark Edgeware can’t allow a self-proclaimed “curse breaker” to threaten his last chance for redemption. After he fails to get Riley kicked off his survey site, he vows to avoid her. Unfortunately for him, she vows to get even.
Riley expects the curse to do her dirty work by driving Clark away, but instead, they keep finding themselves in close proximity. Too close. Turns out, the only thing they do better than fight is fool around. If they’re not careful, by the end of all this, more than the castle will end up in ruins.
Riley had always thought it was kind of funny, in a morbid way, that a family of curse breakers could help everyone but themselves.
review
Do Your Worst is an entertaining and sexy enemies-to-more story set against the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands!
The premise of this book is fun! We’ve got a seemingly strait-laced, by-the-books English archeologist hoping for career redemption and a chaotic American from a long line of curse breakers looking to capitalize on her family’s supernatural abilities. They both need to succeed, at all costs, when they are thrown together in an old Scottish castle that is notorious for scaring off everyone who has come before them trying to bring it back from ruination, but they are also both wildly attracted to each other. What could go wrong in this contemporary, paranormal romance, right!?
Rosie Danan brought her addictive writing style to the table again and laced this book with great banter, compulsive push and pull, and heat that burned *so* hot! The way I bit my bottom lip and smirked when prim and proper Clark showed Riley what he likes behind closed doors — it’s why I love Rosie’s books! There is also some depth that I wasn’t really expecting but appreciated because it adds to that transition from enemies to more and the personal growth they’re both working towards.
My biggest qualm with this book is the point of view from which it’s told. I am just not a major fan of a 3rd person POV, especially in romance. I did enjoy the dual POVs, though!
Overall, Do Your Worst is really enjoyable — the perfect book for romance readers to pick up and escape into as the dark and cold begins seeping into our days too early now.
*Thanks to the publisher for providing me with a free copy of this book. This did not affect my opinion or the content of my review
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