Review: After the Night

After the Night by Sandra Marie
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

1.5 stars 

What if the love of her life had been in her office building this whole time? Dressing in accidental couples costumes could’ve been the universe throwing them a very obvious bone. 

This was a Kindle Freebie and I'm still not going to recommend it. Cassidy works in the billing department of a doctor's office and gets talked into going to the buildings Halloween party. She dresses as Princess Buttercup from Princess Bride and who does she end up meeting there? Why, the Dread Pirate Roberts, of course! They hit it off but because of eye contact issues, Cassidy is virtually blind by the time they are getting hot and heavy in the backseat of the car and when Westley's mask comes off she still doesn't see him. She ends up running away because she suddenly remembers that she is wearing “boob bags” to help fill out the dress and she ends up not knowing who Westley was. She did see a Flounder from The Little Mermaid tattoo on the guy's shoulder and knows Westley had green eyes. She then decides to date green eyed guys in the building. 

Westley was the new Dr. Jon Bateman and he knew it was Cassidy but thinks she is weirded out because he is older than her and could sort of be called her boss. When she starts dating different guys from the building, he really thinks she thought it was no big deal and just likes to fool around. He really liked her though, and when they have to go away for a conference, hopes they can rekindle the magic. 

This was a pretty quick read that was super light, the writing had some immaturity to it, and the story bounced around from embezzelment, to Cassidy's parent's love/hate relationship issues, and Jon and Cassidy falling in love from being together for only a couple hours. A lot of Marvel stuff thrown in because Cassidy is a big fan and some of Disney secondary characters talk because Jon has a bunch tattooed on his back. 

I showed up for the Halloween time setting and it delivered that with the Halloween party, a haunted maze, and then ending on Halloween night. There's some slapstick, goofy humor that didn't quite land with me and can't say I ever felt the depth in their feelings. The writing needs to be shored up but if looking for a Kindle Freebie with some Halloween in it, it does have that, with a random embezzlement plot.

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