First and foremost, getting a kindle paperwhite is literally one of the best decisions my book loving heart has ever made. I’ve had many kindle fires over time, but the notifications from the other apps always drove me crazy and I hated being interrupted while I read. And I love my iPad for journaling, working on the go, and so many other things, but reading has NEVER been one of them. The full size iPad is clunky and too big to enjoy reading on. And I love the smell of a fresh new book, and the sound of cracking a spine open for the first time (oh yeah – I’m a monster that cracks spines, writes in books and dog-ears pages). But I hate carrying physical books around – and I like to bring a book with me everywhere (just call me Rory Gilmore, pre-Dean break up, but with a boyfriend as attractive, but not as arrogant as Logan).

Since I got the paperwhite, I’m back to cruising through novels within a day or so (despite working 45-50 hours a week and being a mama, helloooo lack of sleep from reading). My latest ARC read was “Calling Your Bluff” by Kate Campfield. Described as an “enemy to lovers romantic comedy,” it is the third installment in Kate’s Betting on Love series. I’m once again thrown into a book, not having read the two previous, and while it definitely wasn’t necessary to the story, it would give insight to the side characters relationships (they are merely small glimpses in the story as friends of the male MC).

Okay, so listen, a book with an author’s note like this has to be good right? If you know me, you know that I am obsessed with goats, so I couldn’t wait to dive in.

The story starts with Miller, the male MC. He’s a professional poker player, a huge prankster, and finally over that party face of early adulthood. Then there’s Rebecca, the female MC who is the extreme opposite and exactly the same in some of the best (and unrealized to her) ways.

Rebecca is a med student who desperately wants her parents to be proud of her for following in her father’s footsteps, but she too seems aimlessly lost – she’s failing classes, and not sure what direction she truly wants to go with her life. Both Rebecca and Miller wind up heading to summer camp for the exact same reason – they need to get away from their norm to get their heads on straight. Rebecca becomes her truer self in the woods, preferring her camp nickname “Becca.” And Miller has no clue what he got himself into, and it’s both hilarious and annoying.

Honestly, I was less than impressed in the first several chapters.
-HEAR ME OUT THOUGH-
Miller was wildly troupe-y. His lackadaisical, jokester, can’t take anything serious attitude not only turned off Becca, but me as a reader as well. We were both in for a surprise, and the further I got into the book, the more I realized that was exactly the authors intent. As his layers were slowly revealed to Becca, and her heart softened to him, mine did too.

Though I still take serious issue with his hatred for goats. #justiceforLucy (and yes, this sentence made me giggle to myself).

TLDR: I’m a sucker for a good happy ending, and even more, I’m a sucker for a man who puts his woman first and builds his life to allow for both of their dreams to come true. Honestly, I was less than impressed by how heavy it was with the enemies to lovers troupe for the first few chapters -HOWEVER – the way both Miller and Becca found themselves again because of their support for each other was lovely. “Calling Your Bluff” definitely leaned towards the troupe-y side of enemies to lovers romance, BUT it was so well written, and the layers of character’s personalities was so well done, I didn’t mind (and I was actually wildly surprised by the way the authors intent was for us the reader too be as hesitant about Miller as Becca was – and I was just as angry as she was that she started to fall for him). I will definitely be adding the others in the series to my to-be-read pile, and keeping an eye out for the next one Kate Campfield releases!

Keeping it WTH-worthy,
-Kells-