The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires #1) by Lauren Asher

The fine print is addictive, entertaining workplace billionaire romance with grumpy x sunshine trope but I feel this could have been even better.

Synopsis

Rowan
I’m in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.

My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me don’t get happy endings.
Not when we’re destined to ruin them.

Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland’s most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I’d ever met.

Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn’t care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn’t fix everything.
Especially not us.

The Fine Print is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers

Review

First in Dreamland Billionaires and it was everything I expected. The Fine Print follows Rowan, youngest Kane brother who finds out in his grandfather’s will that he has to be a director at The Dreamland theme park and renovate it.

Scarred by losing mother at young age and emotional and verbal abuse from father turned monster due to loss, he doesn’t exactly like the theme part nor the idea of running it for 6 months. But when he meets Zahra on the first day, he gets in trouble. No matter hard he tries Zahra has a way to crawl under his skin and before he can even figure out she has marked her place in his heart. He doesn’t believe in happy endings but Zahra makes him think otherwise but bot before he makes mistakes.

Zahra on one drunken night sends a proposal to Dreamland creators and that lads her into her dream job. While she is Zahra is sunshine incarnated she suffers from self-confidence thanks to her ex-boyfriend and her new boss Rowan doesn’t make it easy. He is rude, selfish and out of her universe but one encounter and one kiss makes her heart soar. She feels connection even though she knew it would only break her heart once again until she discovers his secrets.

It was interesting to see how Zahra and Rowan to opposite ends are going to meet in the middle and how it is going to change their life.

Writing reminded me of Ana Huan books. If you like her books, you’re definitely going to like this. It’s addictive, banter filled and witty making the pace solid and irresistable to stop. I loved the concept of romance in theme park and The themes and layers of past heartbreak, childhood trauma of loss, ungodly parental pressure and expectations, ambition vs fulfillment, trust issues, vulnerability and healing makes the plot even more interesting. Both main characters are interesting.

Rowan is typical misunderstood hero. He has image of being ruthless, selfish and cynical who doesn’t care anything beyond company growth and that was true. He had stright mindset but knowing more about him we see it was the frontier he created after suffering from verbal and emotion abuse from grieving alcoholic father, urge to please him, and terrible past experiences from people who only saw his money and status.

I could see why he closed his heart, emotions and dreams to the world which make his character arc to become the version he was when his mom was alive even more satisfying. Of course it take Zahra and lots of heart tugging moment to get through that trust issue he had and take a leap over his vulnerability. He goes through, feeling change, denial, hesitant to acceptance before he actually allows idea of happily ever after in life.

Zahra is happy, hopeful and with heart with gold who spreads it around her but after her last heartbreak her self-confidence is shaken and it took her a lot to put herself first. Bein with Rowan tests that in many ways. While she could see through him, knew he more than like her before he did and found herself falling for him even though she knew there isn’t label to their relationship and they started it with being casual.

I don’t think she is fool, like she keep saying to herself in book after knowing things Rowan kept hidden but I feel her reaction or the way she handled it was kind of half done. Maybe because I found her overreacting at some places and not reacting enough in other.

Romance is banter-filled, hot and sexy with grumpy x sunshine and boss x employee trope. Chemistry is really good between them and There are many amazing moments and I loved to see how they lifted each other and turned them into better version.

For the first half of the book I was going to rate it 5 stars. But second half changed my mind. I can’t help but say Ana huang might have ruined my expectations when it come to this kind of situations like – hero fucking up that break heroine’s heart and he realise it too late and heroine make him work before letting him in- and that thing the way it was done in this wasn’t exactly satisfying.

I was little annoyed at both situation and surprisingly at Zahra. I also feel the dysfunctional family aspect wasn’t covered that well. I wnated bond between brothers like Zahra had with her sister but we don’t get that here. I was more invested in real plot and also all the lovely moments before climax, i wasn’t interested sex scenes. I couldn’t help but feel they dragging the story and I often wanted to skip them.

Climax was both good and predictable. I loved the way Rowan cared for sick Zahra and his reaction at seeing her health worsening that acted as catalyst to him realising he is in love. So i knew the break up was inevitable. I also kind of knew Rowan being director was temporary and will create issue in their relationship but what his grandfather’s team for vote turned out interesting aspect. End was really good, a bit cheesy but satisfying.

Overall, The fine print is addictive, entertaining workplace billionaire romance with grumpy x sunshine trope but I feel this could have been even better.

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