Counterpoint by Hailey Frost

Counterpoint by Hailey FrostCounterpoint by Hailey Frost
Series: Hystoria #3
Published by Self Published on November 24, 2023
Genres: Romance
Pages: 308
Format: eBook
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When life sucks and you think it can’t get worse… trust me, it can.
After my relationship ended badly, I’m leaving the city and moving back home. I look forward to packing everything into my car and enjoy the nice, quiet, road trip - until my brother asks me to take his best friend along and doesn’t accept a ‘no’. The same best friend that rejected me brutally when we were teens.But I’m an adult and I can act like one - even though Simon’s grumpy demeanor is pushing all my wrong buttons. Soon disdain turns into sparks and when we need to share a bed, know I’m in trouble.
Then again, if life gives you lemons… maybe it’s time to enjoy a good lemon cookie.
Counterpoint is a steamy rockstar/ enemies to lover’s romance. It's book three in the Hystoria series but can be read as a standalone.

two-stars

review

I picked up Counterpoint by Hailey Frost solely based off what I’d seen on TikTok. This was just not it. I felt so bored waiting for anything to happen. I felt like I was on a drive to nowhere as Harper and Simon drive back to her hometown.

The set-up was great. The forced proximity should have created the tension between Harper and Simon. But it fell flat. Simon was closed off for the majority with Harper trying to move everything forward and move on with her life. The spice was meh because there were no sparks to be felt between the two. Then, out of nowhere, Simon decides to blow up on Harper with what he thought about her given the very little he actually knows about her life and when he gets a reality check, realizes he messed up. You’d think there’d be an epic grovel afterward, but there wasn’t. And she just is okay with it given that it wasn’t even the first time she had him saying something horrible to/about her. This didn’t even read as enemies to lovers. It was so one-sided with Harper crushing hard on Simon who felt way too self-absorbed to care about anything or anyone else.

Sadly, I don’t recommend Counterpoint by Hailey Frost. It felt lackluster and boring, despite being 300 pages long.

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