The Dirty Truth

by Winter Renshaw

From Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon bestselling author Winter Renshaw comes an enemies-to-lovers romance about the journey of self-discovery that follows a life-changing event.

After a brush with death, I realize it’s time to make changes in my life. Big changes.

First, my job. I love being a journalist, but I hate my megawatt magnate boss, West Maxwell. When he demands I rewrite an article on short notice, I turn the tables on him with a scathing new column and quit in a blaze of glory.

But West isn’t about to let me go that easily, the jerk. He offers me an unexpected new position: mentor to his rebellious teenage niece. For some reason, I agree—I like helping people, but I’m also admittedly curious to glimpse the man behind the mogul.

However, I soon discover that my new assignment isn’t what I expected. As I learn about the private side of my enigmatic boss, I start to see the heart he hides behind his icy facade. The old Elle hated West…but maybe—just maybe—the new Elle can tame him.

• ISBN10: 1542038278
• ISBN13: 9781542038270
• Publish Date: 14 June 2022
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Montlake Romance
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

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The Dirty Truth by Winter Renshaw is a romance novel set to release on the 14th of June 2022! Thanks to NetGalley, I was able to read it a bit earlier than that!

 

After being dead for nearly three minutes, Elle decides that she wants to try living again! After a run-in with her asshole boss, she decides to quit. After a meeting with his niece, Elle agrees to mentor her, and things go from there!

 

I do want to give Winter Renshaw some credit to start with; even though the version provided to us is unedited, I didn’t catch any of the usual mistakes. The story also started fairly strong. While I normally don’t give romance novels higher than three (out of five) stars, I was beginning to think I’d have to make an exception for this one!

 

Long story short; I didn’t.

 

Don’t get me wrong, The Dirty Truth is a decent romance novel, but that's all it is; just decent. It isn't exceptional in any way.

 

I loved Elle at the start, but her behavior became more and more cliched as the book went on; why is she standing there and rumpling his hair to make it less perfect? The cheesiness of that killed me (in a not good way). She also really bulldozed over all of his boundaries in a way that I didn’t appreciate —yes he needed to open up, but if he did this to her, I’d like to tell her to run away!

 

Scarlett, West's niece, was a sweetheart though. However, I felt like both of them were really hard on her. They expected every meeting to be the one that turned her around and make her a good kid. That feels like an odd burden to place on a child.

 

So as a whole, while The Dirty Truth is a nice read, I think Winter Renshaw could have done better, given the number of books she’s already written.