Review: One Night With You

• Title: One Night With You

• Author: Laura Jane Williams

• Series: --

• Genre: Contemporary Romance

• Rating: ☆☆.5

• Trigger Warnings: miscarriage, death, injury

**Thank you NetGalley and Avon Books UK for a copy of this ARC. These are my honest thoughts.**

Whilst the synopsis wasn't exactly misleading, I do feel that this was a book that was much more than just the one-night stand that brought Nic and Ruby together. But that doesn't mean this book was all that enjoyable for me. I felt a lot of this novel was wildly over-dialogued and unnecessary. It was also all over the place and hard to follow at times and I struggled to hold an interest in what was going on.

I would definitely class this more as a women's lit read than a romance. Whilst Nic and Ruby's feelings are approached back and forth throughout this novel, I found it was more about them as people becoming who they wanted and needed to be and a lot of ill-timed happenstances that seemed to get more dramatic as time went on. I didn't find either main character relatable or interesting enough to root for them to get together, and a lot of their relationship felt unconvincing to me. Frankly, neither felt realistic to me, and I especially found Ruby rather selfish and indecisive.

I did like the friendships they made along the way, and my favourite part about this book was the side storyline about JP searching for his lost love. JP was a wonderful character, and I enjoyed his moments a fair deal.

Sadly, given this book was meant to be about two people connecting one fateful evening and seeing whether they would become something more than that, it felt like quite the let down given most of the book wasn't completely focused on that. The ending was also very sudden with the 4 year time jump that cheapened the conclusion for me with a whole lot of telling rather than showing.

Since I tend to read more romance than women's lit, this just didn't hit the mark for me at all.