More Than Words by Jill Santopolo

 

Publisher: Putnam

On Sale Date: February 5, 2019

Pages: 352

I reviewed a digital review copy from the publisher

Nina Gregory lives in New York City with her long time boyfriend Tim. Her father is the founder and owner of the Gregory Hotel chain, and her mother died when she was eight. She works in Manhattan as a speechwriter for  Rafael, who is in the running for mayor of the city. From the start there is chemistry between them. Nina's father dies, and she is the one appointed to take over the hotels, while she is grieving, and she keeps working as a speechwriter for Rafael, and something is starting between them, with puts her relationship with Tim, who proposed to her, in danger when images of her and Tim are posted on Twitter.  Further on, she discovers that her father and uncle done financial business things that are shady and not how they where supposed to be done, and also why her mom died shortly after she left her father. She is struggling and coming to terms with realizing that not everything she believed in has been true, and that the live she is living is perhaps not the one meant for her.

I found More Than Words and okay read. The story was okay, but not the most exciting, moving or groundbreaking one. The thought that came up to me while reading, is that it felt like reading a soap series. It had all the drama of that and not one part had any depth or was very moving. I found the choices that Nina made to put her relationship with Tim on the risk just because of some immature flirting with Rafael really questionable, and further on I found Nina a characther without any debt, and I couldn't care less for what she was doing, because nothing made me like her as a reader.

Overall I found this book not the best I've read. Not recommended.