It feels so good to have got the time out to read through one more dark work-place romance. This one is by Lauren Asher, my second novel by her and yes, I can say the story kept me alive through the entire story.
"Ridiculously Amazing Zahra" is completely clueless about how her life is going to get affected by the new director at Dreamland. Is she even concerned about who the new director is - actually not. It is no where close to her circle of concern to even think about it. With real low wages and a good-for-nothing medical insurance failing to deter her passion of working at Dreamland, she is her own sunshine; like we say 'carries her weather' wherever she goes and puts in all her heart at the salon in dressing up children at Dreamland.
"Ridiculously Impossible Rowan" is a billionaire in shock after his grandpa Brady's death and has agreed to take up the role of a Director at Dreamland only because the letter in the Will of his Grandpa requires him to do so to secure his twenty-five billion dollars going away to his father and thus, helping his two brothers in securing their shares too. Rowan has been clearly given clues by his grandpa in his letter about the possibilities at Dreamland, but he is so blind in just doing the job for the sake of it that he hardly realizes when those clues fall in front of him.
It is a beautiful story with a cliche theme of opposites falling for each-other. Rowan hates the bubbly and cheerful mannerism of Zahra so much so that he presumes her to be fake with some unknown intentions. The more he hates her cheerfulness, the more he falls for it. To the extent that he chooses her to the team of Creators after receiving a proposal tearing apart their most expensive ride. Rowan's hatred for Zahra is equally matched by Zahra's hatred for Rowan.
While they both hate the way the other looks at the world around, both are clearly aware of the physical attraction they have for each-other. Its a matter of time when they fall prey to their physical attractions. It is quite odd to see Rowan rise up to help Zahra because her drawings are poor and to add to the complexity, he keeps his identity hidden in the guise of Scott. On the other hand, Zahra is in an ethical dilemma of being physically attracted to Rowan and emotionally to Scott. However, as a reader the entire plot is quite interesting.
There are quite many surprises plotted along the story which adds to the intrigue along the narrative. Though the reasons uncovering Rowan's angst, grumpiness, anti-social, a**hole attitude seem quite trivia in the bearing. The beautiful side-plot of Rowan kindling with Ani (Zahra's sister) adds the required human touch to the otherwise common dark romance.
After enough twists and turns Rowan and Zahra come together as a happy couple where Zahra's dreams seem to come true due to the change in the life-goals that Rowan consciously makes. Beautifully calling themselves "Ridiculously in love".
All in all a good story-line which i'm sure the young folks would love to engage in.
Happy Reading :)))
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