The Parent Trap

***3.5 STARS*** The Parent Trap by Jasinda Wilder was a flirty and steamy enemies to lovers romance. What happens when your childhood bully becomes your business partner and you start falling for him as he is behaving like a swoon fest? Find out in The Parent Trap! I loved the idea of powerhouse heroine! Delia McKenna is a force to be reckoned with. She has been running their family construction business successfully while her father was sick and her playboy brother was absent. And she overcame her body image issues and became a sexy and fierce woman by will power and hard work. I love how she is level headed, strong and yet emotionally vulnerable.The first 30% were amazing. The enemies to lovers tension and action was too good. I loved how they fought for their position and against their chemistry. I was getting soft towards Thai. But once they had sex, the whole story just deflated. Like a balloon has been pricked by a pin. Worth a try if you love enemies to lovers! (Arc review)

THE PARENT TRAP by Jasinda Wilder is a stand alone, contemporary, adult ,erotic romance story line focusing on thirty year olds, millionaire businessman Matthais ‘Thai’ Bristow, and soon to be CEO of McKenna Construction Delia McKenna’s story line. Told from dual first person perspectives ( Thai and Delia) THE PARENT TRAP follows the volatile, enemies to lovers relationship between thirty year olds, millionaire businessman Matthais ‘Thai’ Bristow, and Delia McKenna. Delia and Matthais, along with Delia’s twin brother Dell, grew up in a life of privilege and wealth but years of Thai’s relentless bullying of our story line heroine changed our heroine into a shell of her former self. Upon the death of her beloved father, Delia would discover that her brother Dell, a man who knows nothing about the family business and doesn’t want to try, has been tasked with working alongside his sister in order to receive his inheritance, a task with what he wants nothing to do. Selling his share of the business to his best friend Thai, Dell heads off into places unknown, leaving his sister to deal with the fall-out of this one final act of immaturity and defiance. What ensues is the building enemies to lovers romance and relationship between Thai and Delia, as Thai must come to terms with the pain and heart break he caused for the woman with whom he will fall in love. Matthais ‘Thai’ Bristow grew up an entitled rich boy, and alongside his best friend Dell, they would bully, tease and torment anyone they perceived to be less than perfect including our story line heroine. Thai’s single-minded and ruthless verbal and emotional attacks against Delia McKenna left a shattered soul in its’ wake, a soul that continues to struggle with the fall-out of Thai’s uncompromising vitriol. Working side by side with our story line heroine found Thai reliving a period in his life he was hoping to forget, a period in which his cruelty destroyed the fragile ego of a young teenaged girl. The years would pass, and Delia would battle with the demons of her past, growing into a successful business woman, able to take down a bully like Matthais Bristow. The relationship between Thai and Delia is a best friend’s sister/enemies to lovers/ story of forgiveness and acceptance, friendship and love. Delia struggles with issues of trust and low self esteem, as it pertains to her brother’s best friend Thai, issues that she continues to address every day of her life. Thai, desperate to prove he is no longer the callous and unfeeling bully he was years before, begins a slow seduction of our story line heroine, in an effort to win her love, and ultimately her forgiveness. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and erotic, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text. We are introduced to Delia’s twin brother Dell, their father Douglas McKenna, and several people who work for McKenna Construction. Dell’s story is next in SPRUNG. THE PARENT TRAP is a fast paced, character driven introduction to Jasinda Wilder’s new romance series. The premise is honest and emotional; the characters are real, dynamic and spirited; the romance is spicy and sensitive, as our heroine must over come her past to move on with her future.

Jasinda Wilder is a fairly new author to me but after reading The Parent Trap I’m left wondering why I haven’t read more by this very talented author, I will certainly be checking out her previous books as soon as time permits. The Parent Trap is the perfect book to escape with, it’s an enemies to lovers/ brothers best friend romance, this is Delia McKenna and Matthias (Thai) Bristow’s story. Dell and Delia are twins but they couldn’t be more different if they tried, Delia has concentrated on her career, Dell has become a playboy normally partying with his best friend Thai and over the years this pair have made Delia’s life miserable. But things are about to chance because Thai has purchased half of the McKenna’s business and that means working side by side with Delia. This is where the fun and games begin as this couple come to terms with first off working together and then the feelings they have hidden from everyone over the year. So what will happen when lines are crossed….. I loved this book, it was raw, it was entertaining, it was steamy and it had the perfect mix of angst and witty banter. The characters and their story was easy to relate to and I really recommend this gem of a read.