Book Review
Title: The Tycoon’s Dating Deal
Author: Masaru Urakawa
Genre: Manga
Rating: *****
Review: Now the synopsis for this Harlequin Manga sounds like a good old-fashioned romantic comedy: “Kara’s friend, who runs a matchmaking site, pleads with her to attend a speed-dating party. At the event, she reunites with a man she never imagined she’d see there… Matthew! Matthew was Kara’s first love, the man who coolly turned her down nine years earlier. As a successful lawyer, he should be able to get any woman he wants, so why attend the party? Confused and swept up by the energy of this man who hasn’t changed one bit, Kara finds herself being chosen as his match!”
One of the first things we learn about Kara and Matthew is that they met for the first time when Kara was 8 and Matthew was 14. Kara’s parents had died, and she was taken in by a family friend Sally, who also watched over Matthew whose parents had separated and his new stepmother didn’t spend a lot of time with him. From the moment they meet the pair are inseparable, but the age difference soon makes things difficult for them to be a close. It is Kara who realises as a young woman that she is in love with Matthew but when she tries to make a move, he rejects her harshly and they were never close after that.
Fast forward nearly 20 years from when they first met, Sally asks for Kara’s help with her new dating programme and Kara can’t say no to the woman who is essentially her mother. However, at the speed dating event she learns that her supposedly perfect match is Matthew, now a successful lawyer and Kara doesn’t really want anything to do with him. Matthew sees an opportunity when he sees Kara, his father is unwilling to make him a partner in the law firm because of his reckless playboy lifestyle so he hires Kara to be his girlfriend until he makes partner and she agrees for a large sum of money although she would have done it for nothing because deep down, she still loves Matthew.
From the minute the contract is signed it does nothing but cause trouble and drives a wedge further between this pair. When the announcement of the law firm’s new partner roles around, Matthew isn’t chosen but rather Kara’s ex-boyfriend Steve is. Matthew is heartbroken as all he wanted was to win his father’s approval but, in his anger, he pushes Kara away again. In a nice twist, it is Matthew’s father who apologised for being emotionally absent all these years and to go after the girl he has loved all his life.
The Tycoon’s Dating Deal has one of the cutest endings ever as Matthew and Kara not only confess their feelings and have a happy relationship, but Sally is able to witness her “children” getting married and all because of her perfect matchmaking programme.
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Also see: Partner for Love by Marito Ai
I received this review copy from NetGalley
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