Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen

Lunar Love is a story about rival matchmakers finding love unexpectedly- with each other. Olivia is of mixed race Asian heritage . She becomes the head of Lunar Love, the in person matchmaking service her grandmother founded, when her aunt steps down. The challenges come right away and that includes competition, at least in Olivia’s mind, from Bennett O’ Brien and his new dating app that matches personalities based on the Chinese zodiac like Lunar Love does. Olivia feels like Bennett will put her families business out of business and tries to get information about his app by creating a profile that she knows will match Bennett. Through coincidence he finds out that the woman he went on a date with is the owner of Lunar Love, a matchmaking service that helped his parents as it turns out. Intrigued by Olivia, he makes a bet with her to see who can match each other successfully. Olivia agrees an they match each other with clients that they think have the best chance to win their hearts. Things don’t work out with the clients because Olivia and Bennett fall for each other instead. Olivia finds it hard to admit that not all matches need to be with compatible signs or traits. Everything comes together at the end in a nice cute way. I liked the way Bennett was to Olivia, teasing her but also treating her with compassion. Olivia saw her faults in how she treated Bennett and eventually opened her heart to him. The story was a nice light romance to read this month. I liked the banter as well as the chemistry between Olivia and Bennett. Overall I would give this ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 stars  content warnings: mild language some kissing not too heavy

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