The Fox and the Rebound

An honestly lovely book. Oliver is a intriguing and surprisingly lovable character. His intensity and damage makes your heart go fuzzy. The love story between him and Piper is healthy. 5/5

So sweet and so entertaining! I am loving the Fox family so much and the family dynamic is fantastic! I was so happy to finally get Oliver’s story as he has always been an intriguing character. He did not disappoint!!! I love his vulnerability and strength and the fact that he is innately a caregiver to all the people he cares about. Both these characters learn that they are stronger than they thought and that they are worth the love they find. As always there is love and lots of laughter with Mary Frame and you cannot help but feel good reading her books. Cannot get enough of this family!!!

We romance readers love our tropes. If an author can create a page turner we love within the limits of a familiar basic, central story, we know we’ve found a winner who will reward us for reading again and again.
I found such an author in Mary Frame, way back in her first book, Imperfect Chemistry. It featured Lucy, aka the Perfect Nerd, a Brainiac social moron who finds herself, improbable though it may seem at first, in a burgeoning relationship with magnetic campus heartthrob Jensen.
She’s a fish out of water extraordinaire, and so is Oliver in The Fox and the Rebound.
Mary Frame’s latest book isn’t quite as good as her first, in my humble opinion, but then Imperfect Chemistry pushed all of my buttons as few books have. In other words, let’s not let the minor difference in ranking make us think anything other than a smidgen less of The Fox and the Rebound.
Oliver is an eccentric self-made gazillionaire, so he’s a wizard of a different kind than Lucy, i.e. at making money. He sucks at everything else, though, especially at anything that smacks of dealing with people.
That doesn’t stop him from being a hero. He rescues brilliant sculptress Piper Fox from her abusive boyfriends the moment he finds out she wants and needs help.
But then he has to talk to her. That’s hard to do at all, and rarely happens without opening his mouth to take one foot out and put the other one in. Social graces were hard to find when he was growing up, hungry and abused, in the worst kind of foster family.
Piper, meanwhile, is struggling to get past the creative block her boyfriend left her with along with a shredded ego and non-existent self-confidence.
I’ve devoured every book Mary Frame has written, and she hasn’t yet failed to put the punch of surprise into how her hero and heroine start finding out they are made for each other.
Oliver and Piper, for instance, start to find their magic when they spend a sexless night together and each of them sleeps well for the first time in years.
Huh? What less likely way could you possibly find as the catalyst for a couple in a romance novel coming together?
Think about it, though. What better way could two damaged, abused people learn they trust and need each other?
I read The Fox and the Rebound in a free advance reading copy supplied by the author with a request for an honest review if I cared to leave one. I definitely did so care. Every lover of romantic comedy should find this author, and it’s a pleasure to help them do so.