Rate A Date

I’ve really enjoyed this series but this one is not one of my favorites. I couldn’t seem to connect with the characters like I did with the other books. Mitch and Eleanor are ok characters but seemed a little bit blah. I wasn’t even mad on Eleanor behalf when Mitch lied to her. I actually understood where he was coming from but he should have told her after their first night together.

RATE A DATE is the fifth instalment in Monica Murphy’s contemporary, adult DATING erotic, romance series. This is hair stylist Eleanor Murray, and professional football player Mitch Anderson’s story line. RATE A DATE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. Told from dual first person perspectives (Mitch and Eleanor) RATE A DATE follows the building relationship between hair stylist Eleanor Murray, and professional football player Mitch Anderson. Mitch and Eleanor are tired of the dating scene. Eleanor Murray soon discovers that her best friend has signed her up on the Rate a Date dating app, and her first ‘date’ doesn’t go too well. Meanwhile, professional football player Mitchell Anderson, bored with the one-night stands, and the stream of women only looking for fame and money, finds himself ‘talking and texting’ to Eleanor Murray, a woman who is quickly stirring something within our story line hero. A bachelorette weekend in Vegas for Caroline Abbott (Save the Date #1) finds Eleanor meeting the man who is currently starring in all of her fantasies and dreams but a man whom she will discover is keeping secret his true identity.What ensues is the quick building romance and relationship between Eleanor and Mitch, and the potential fall-out as Mitch’s professional life is about to be exposed. Mitchell Anderson wants to fall in love. He wants a woman to call his own, and meeting Eleanor Murray gives Mitchell a hope for the future but a future that is currently predicated upon a lie. Mitchell knows he has to come clean but our hero struggles with revealing the truth to a woman who only knows that the man with whom she is falling in love, is an ordinary man. Eleanor Murray is lonely. One of the two remaining single women in her group of friends, Eleanor battles between head and heart when her friend sets up a dating profile in an effort to find Eleanor someone to love. The relationship between Mitch and Eleanor begins as a meet and greet in Vegas having spent days and nights texting and talking. Now that Mitch and his team have moved to Vegas, our hero spends with weekend getting know the woman with whom he will fall in love but a lie of omission threatens their potential happily ever after. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense without the use of over the top,sexually graphic language and text. There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and energetic secondary and supporting characters-most of the women we have me in the previous instalments. RATE A DATE is a story of secrets and lies; friendships and love. The premise is heart warming, uplifting and fun; the romance is sexy and seductive; the characters are animated and sassy.

Rate a Date is HOT HOT HOT . What starts out as a bit of a joke for Eleanor soon turns into the stuff fantasies are made of, but can it really be too good to be true. Mitch is a bit contradictory in his attitude and behaviour, having been a class A player for so many years it is difficult to believe he is sincere in his quest for a real relationship. Especially as he is concealing his true profession in the hope of finding the person who will like him and not just the material aspects which come with his career. While this is understandable, there is also the basis of a relationship being built on lie, a lie of ommission but a lie none the less. Matching on the dating app, Mitch and Eleanor click from the start even when they are merely messaging back and forth. The rapport they have is natural and easy. A brilliant beginning which goes from strength to strength as their relationship progresses. The chemistry between the pair is combustible when they finally get to meet, although there is the underlying notion that their dalliance is purely a wild weekend. However, the emotions they bring out in each other are nothing either has experienced before. The relationship between Mitch and Eleanor is whirlwind and intense, but it worked for them. But will Eleanor be able to overlook the subtle secrecy of Mitch’s professional athlete status or will it create a rift to wide to breach? Rate a Date also provides a continuation of the previous characters relationships from the Dating series and the wonderful bond of female friendship and empowerment they have within the pages of the series. There is also a fantastic foundation laid for Kelsey’s story, she really deserves her own happily ever after.