Material Girl

You are the Vice President of your dad’s huge and successful company. You handle all the important business deals, flirt with all the big business men, and travel all over the world to see what kind of clients you can gain for the firm. The mansion you live in is big enough for you and ten other people, and your vehicle happens to be the flashiest Mercedes on the block. You’re definitely living the dream with your beauty and your money, and you have the world at your fingertips. What could possibly go wrong?

In Julia London’s Material Girl, Robin Lear has this exact jet-set life. Everything is going perfectly until she discovers that her father has cancer. Robin’s world begins to unravel at once.

Although Aaron Lear, her father and founder of Lear Transport Industries (LTI), has never been the easiest man to get along with, Robin drives down to her family’s ranch to see him.

Aaron requested that all three of his daughters come to the ranch, where he is now staying, to visit with him. He knows now that he was never the father he should have been to his girls, and with his cancer slowly taking his life, he plans to help his daughters with theirs.

Of course, as Aaron has always been quite arrogant, he insults Robin in the worst way possible, demotes her from her VP position at LTI, and makes her abandon the range without a second glance back.

On top of all of that, Robin gets arrested on her way back home, discovers that her office burned down, has to work for her toady ex-boyfriend in packaging, and finds that she is totally infatuated with Jake Manning, her sexy contractor who is no way her type.

Despite all the disastrous things that have been happening to her, Robin still manages to stay her prissy, sassy, and arrogant self. Yet every time she’s around Jake her world shifts ever so slightly. He takes pleasure in the simple things in life, he’s extremely handsome, and he’s not afraid to put Robin in her place. Jake is everything Robin has never had in a man. He sure knows how to distract her and keep her grounded at the same time.

Since Jake is constantly in her presence, as he is renovating Robin’s spacious, empty house, there’s absolutely no way to escape him, but she finds that she doesn’t really want to. . .

Material Girl is an absolutely stunning and riveting book. Each character brings the story to life in the perfect way, and Robin Lear is a remarkable leading lady. This novel proves that money can’t buy you love and opposites attract in the most peculiar ways. Definitely a worthwhile read, this book will thrill its readers, move them to tears, and keep them laughing out loud with the rises and falls of the material girl, Robin Lear.