ShayKay's Review of The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

Synopsis (from Goodreads)

Rhiannon Hunter may have revolutionized romance in the digital world, but in real life, she only swipes right on her career - and the occasional hookup. The cynical dating app creator controls her love life with a few key rules: Nude pics are by invitations only, if someone stands you up, block them with extreme prejudice, protect your heart. Only there aren't any rules to govern her attraction to her newest match, former pro-football player Samson Lima. The sexy seemingly sweet hunk woos her one magical night.....and disappears. Rhi thought she'd buried her hurt over Samson ghosting her until he suddenly surfaces months later, still big, still beautiful - and in league with a business rival. He says he won't fumble their second chance, but she's wary. A temporary physical partnership is one thing, but a merger of hearts? Surely that's too high a risk....

Thoughts Before Reading

This really sounds perfect right now! I think it is going to be a fast and easy read, which is definitely what I need in my life right now. I'll be the first to admit that it is nice to read things that you don't have to put much thought into it because it is easy to just escape reality and I can bounce in and out of the book with no issues. I've actually already read the first couple of pages and I love it! I'm at the part where she just learned about Samson being apart of the competitor's company and let me tell you it is already getting so interesting! I can't wait to see how it goes. The synopsis makes it seems like she does give him another chance but I wonder if he works for that because Rhi sounds like a person who doesn't just let a guy walk right back into her life since he stood her up so I'm hoping for some resistance. I usually don't like it when the synopsis gives everything away so I'm really curious to see just how much has been given away within the synopsis because right now it seems like pretty much everything has been sold in it.

Half-Way Through Thoughts

I'm not technically a full 50% into the book yet but I think I'm at the perfect spot to stop and reflect on everything that has happened. First, let me say I knew this was one of the rom-com-y books but I didn't know how much in the romance genre it was and let me tell you there are some scenes in this book that will definitely push you off your feet if you aren't used to reading intimate scenes. I'm not a prude I've read books that have sex scenes but these ones are intense you guys and there have been quite a few and I'm not even 50% through the book yet. That being said I would say that they are semi-important to the story because that's all Samson and Rhi's relationship is. But if you read the book you'll see that there are a lot of undertones of both of these character's backgrounds. I really love how the book doesn't just throw all of the backstories right at you and you as the reader slowly read the undertones along with their backstories. I'm living for this drama though and I love both Samson and Rhi so much! I feel like at this point we kind of learned everything about Samson's backstory but only snippets of Rhi's and it just started to implode a little bit. I want to know what happened between her and Peter from Swype, all we know so far is that she left the company on very bad terms which led to everyone in this tech field to think horrible things about Rhi. Rhi does put on a very hard exterior but she seems like once you get to know her or even her close friends and family really see the true side of her and the public only knows the drama from the fallout with Swype so I think we are about to get more into her history with Peter and I'm very curious!

I haven't talked about Samson much but I love his character so much! His story just comes out a lot easier than Rhi's. Even though he says a lot about himself. Both of these two main characters are both likable people that have baggage, which everyone has baggage. Samson has a lot of different things going for him and I think I love them both but they are both guarded, definitely Rhi more than Samson. I want to rush through this book just to see how it goes but just all romance books they are going to end up together but how are they and when are they kind of thing. It's just intense right now.

After Thoughts

I just finished the book and Ohmylanta! I loved this book so much! There were never any down moments throughout the whole entire book. There are some pretty sexy scenes so people who complained about 50 Shades should probably stay away from this one. But it was overall so cute and a fun read! I loved Rai's writing style too, I really need to look into her other writings! This is the first book in a series and there are a lot of things left unanswered such as does Rhi ever end up working with Belle? Does this relationship work out in the end? I don't think the book itself really ended in a cliff hanger but there were unanswered questions. Even though there were unanswered questions that literally pop up in the last couple of chapters I still gave the book a 5 out of 5 stars because I literally could not put this book down! It was so good! 

I really hope the next book follows these two because I love them as the main characters. I think it would be cool to follow Katrina a little bit because I want to know how she ended up being so anxious because it sounded like she lived a pretty interesting life up until her husband died. I don't know, I think I will definitely pick up the next book even if it follows some of the side characters. I think the next book, Girl Gone Viral, follows Katrina so I'll definitely pick it up. I want to learn more about her for sure. It doesn't sound like Rhiannon and Samson are going to be in the book, or they'll just make flash appearances since she's roommates with Katrina but we'll just have to find out in April 2020. I can't believe I already have a book on my 2020 watch list! I usually only do backlog books with a few exceptions here and there.