Review: Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter

Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter

Series: Mr. Wrong Number #1

Publication date: March 1st, 2022

Pages: 350
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relationship in this hilarious rom-com by Lynn Painter.

Bad luck has always followed Olivia Marshall... or maybe she's just the screw-up her family thinks she is. But when a "What are you wearing?" text from a random wrong number turns into the hottest, most entertaining--albeit anonymous--relationship of her life, she thinks things might be on the upswing...

Colin Beck has always considered Olivia his best friend's annoying little sister, but when she moves in with them after one of her worst runs of luck, he realizes she's turned into an altogether different and sexier distraction. He's sure he can keep his distance, until the moment he discovers she's the irresistible Miss Misdial he's been sort of sexting for weeks--and now he has to decide whether to turn the heat up or ghost her before things get messy.

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Review:

Olivia is an absolute mess. How else would you describe a girl who decides to burn her love letters from her cheating ex-boyfriend on the balcony of her apartment only to have an opossum knock over the bucket of flames and set fire to the entire complex? All of Olivia's possessions are burned to ash and her life is in shambles. She has no choice but to lick her wounds and head home. Luckily her brother is willing to take her in even if that means she has to live with him and his asshole of a roommate, Colin. As she starts to pick up the pieces of her life she gets a random sext from some unknown man. Instead of blowing him off she decides to feed into it and banter with the man. The bantering feels so good that Olivia can't seem to let it go. But what if the person on the other end of the line is someone she swore she would never go there with? Someone who lives just down the hall from her?

I cannot imagine an individual having as bad of luck as Olivia seems to have. It seems like every single time she gets two steps ahead she has to take another one backwards. She slogs through all the obstacles in her way but she does it with an open determination that was riveting to watch. Even when I was cringing so hard at her accident prone antics, I was loving her go-get-'em attitude. It made me feel terrible for her when I watched the people in her life dismiss her as just an accident prone mess who was always getting herself into trouble. Did they not see how hard she worked to do better? How the things that happen to her are not always necessarily her fault but products of the fates toying with her? I hated the way her brothers and mother treated her. The only one who eventually came to her defense was the one that you'd least expect it from.

Colin was so uptight that he desperately needed a free spirit like Olivia in his life. She made him loosen up and find joy in his life outside of the mundane. She tested his patience and kept him on his toes. They were two opposites that desperately needed each other. It did not escape my notice that he was compared to Ryan Gosling which concocted a whole slew of mental images in my mind. 

I think this book was really well developed. It was cutesy without being so sugary sweet that it gave one a cavity. The only drawback I found with the book was that it was not something I haven't read before. Granted, the characters were different and had different personalities, but the barebones of the story was very similar. Stoic grump meets vivacious klutz; hilarity and swoony romance ensues. But that didn't detract too much from my enjoyment. I would definitely read more by Lynn Painter.