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Friends without Benefits by Penny Reid

Title: Friends without Benefits (Knitting in the City #2)

Author: Penny Reid

Publisher: Cipher-Naught 2014

Genre: Romance

Pages: 406

Rating: 5/5 stars

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There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she's unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit.

Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, “benefits” with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth’s plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello—her former nemesis—she finds herself struggling to maintain the electric fence around her heart while avoiding a Nico charisma-electrocution or, worse, falling in love.

I finally got around to reading the second in this contemporary romance series. It was such a delight and I sped through it in two days. Elizabeth is such a taciturn character in the first book and I was glad to see her soft side in this novel. Right away, I absolutely fell for Elizabeth and Nico and especially those two together. There is a lot of angst in this novel, but I really did love the conversations. My biggest complaint was that there was only one steamy scene. I love the pre-steamy scenes, but I need more post-steamy scenes.

Knitting in the City

  • #1 Neanderthal Seeks Human

  • #1.5 Neanderthal Marries Human

  • #2 Friends Without Benefits

  • #3 Love Hacked

  • #4 Beauty and the Mustache

  • #4.75 Ninja at First Sight

  • #5 Happily Ever Ninja

  • #6 Dating-ish

  • #7 Marriage of Inconvenience

  • #8 Neanderthal Seeks Extra Yarns

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