Bored to tears. The last few Guillory books didn’t do a thing for me and this one was the same. I thought the first two of her books were great and now they just feel lacking to me. This one I didn’t care about the heroine (Margot) and the hero (Luke). This was insta-lust, forbidden love (she’s Luke’s boss, or one of them), but also I guess work colleagues. I don’t know, I think when Guillory was at least making her romance novels fit some popular romance movies they just worked better. This one was kind of meh throughout.
“Drunk on Love” follows Margot Noble. Margot and her brother, Elliott, co-own a winery in Napa they inherited from their uncle. Margot is frequently at odds with her brother and after another mini-argument after she finds out that he hired a new person without telling her about it. She goes to her friend Sydney’s restaurant to unwind. Well Sydney is all, unwind with the hot young Black guy nearby and she does. Problem is that the guy is the new employee at the winery, Luke Williams.
FYI, it took me way too long to figure out that Margot was Black and that’s because Luke is the one that talks about. I didn’t read Margot as being Black at all.
Not too much to say, I was not caught up in this romance. Guillory doesn’t set the book up enough for me to really care about either of them. There’s also some side-plots that dragged the story down a lot (Luke’s ex-boss). I found the beginning part of the book to move so freaking slow. There’s a reason why this is the fourth time I checked this book out and I finally finished it. It does not grab you and I kept forgetting about it because it was just so dang slow.
I thought the setting of Napa would be exciting, but I just shrugged through it. One of my best friends just did the Napa wine train tour with her sister and she made me more excited about Napa than this book.
This was just an okay romance with the two leads who just need to actually use words instead of thinking they know what the other one really wants/needs.