Amy's ARC review of No Strings Attached (The Escort #1) by Kristen Strassel

ARC No Cover available Releases August 25th

Synopsis

Leah Godfrey has almost everything she could ask for—
She’s got an interior design business with an A-list clientele, a weekly spot on a national morning TV show, and a great daughter—but she doesn’t have a date for her twentieth high school reunion. It wouldn’t be a big deal, but her ex-husband was her high school sweetheart, and now he’s married to the slut Leah caught him with in bed. She won’t let the biggest failure of her life overshadow her success.

When her best friend suggests she hire a date, Leah thinks the idea is scandalous. But for one weekend, she wants to forget her mistakes and pretend she has everything her ex took away from her.
Jagger Holiday makes women’s fantasies come true—
But working as a male escort leaves him feeling empty. He turns to photography to fill the void. When Jagger gets a call from a lonely single mom who needs the same thing he does, he wants more. He wants her.

Leah and Jagger have no problem convincing everyone at the reunion they’re together. She should’ve known better than to think there’d be no strings attached.

After all, he’s a professional.

ARC - book releasing August 25th 3.5 stars Leah Godfrey is a mid thirties single mom. She isn’t a model, she isn’t every man’s fantasy but she has her business and her daughter Raven. Being an interior designer to the A-listers you think someone would be available to take her to her high school reunion but reality is Leah has no one. Her life is her teenage daughter, her parents and her business. She doesn’t have time to date and wouldn’t know how to even if she did. The reunion wouldn’t be such a big deal to her except her cheating a** husband who was her high school sweetheart will be there with the whore she caught him banging; now his wife. Although Leah knows her life is great the one thing she failed at eats away at her. If she can show her ex that she is successful in love as well as in life then maybe she can finally put the past behind her. Leah’s best friend suggests she hires a date. It’s the perfect plan. It wont be awkard, the guy would be a professional and after the reunion everyone goes their separate ways. Rich will believe she has moved on and she wont look pathetic to her “old friends” showing up alone. If she can have it all for one weekend then forgetting her mistakes will be easier. Jagger Holiday is bored. He is tired of being an escort and wants more for himself. He’s even having trouble remembering the women’s names who have hired him to do a job. His photography hobby helps him cope but he wants more for his life. Every man should love having a different woman nightly with no strings attached but Jagger wants to finally know what it feels like to come home to the same woman. When he sees the single mom that has hired him ….. Jagger realizes just how bad he craves a “normal” life. This job will be easiest one of his life. There is some scandalous things going on in No Strings Attached. Its an easy read and I love the fact that we have a mid thirties single mom that isn’t a string bean. However I do wish that she was more confident. Good lord the woman is a huge success and has a magnificent daughter. Leah’s mom is hilarious. I wont tell you why as that would spoil things but she is a hoot in the way she justifies things in Leah’s life. This is a quick easy read. Like I said I loved the fact that Leah was not the perfect size and not in her 20’s but I would have loved to see her more confident and not worrying over a cheating ex. She did redeem herself in one small scene but I would have loved to see her do that more often throughout the book.