The Charm Offensive

DNF

I only got through about a third of the book. Charlie and Dev hadn't yet got together, but it seemed eminent and there was still two thirds of the book left. Which tells me that it's going to be another two hundred pages of the same stuff, which no resolution until the end (because rom-com book). And it's not worth my time for all that.

Charlie has OCD and severe social anxiety (so he says... doesn't really seem that way to me...but...) and decided, with his publicist/best friend, that going on national TV as the Bachelor is going to help him improve his image. This is beyond ridiculous. Even if the Bachelor wasn't fake, the pressure of interacting with twenty different women in so many ways, no one thinks that is going to be good for his mental health. Well, not in real life. Also, he's a germaphobe, but only when convenient.

And Dev. Dev has worked on the show for years and somehow thinks that it ends up with true love. Ick and naive.

And no other character had more than a few sketches of them.