Review – The Other Man by Nicole French

The Other Man; Rose Gold #1 
(#1 within a series)

by: Nicole French

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The Other Man is filled with suspense, drama and an inside look into a man who falls into an obsession with a married woman. As the title implies this book does involve cheating, but perhaps you’ve always wondered what is was like on the flipside to “be the other man”.

Matthew Zota seems to have a penchant for married women, that is at least how he meet Nina Gardner. Being a single man in New York you’d think he’d have no trouble finding a single gal, but somehow the taken ones seemed to end up in his bed.

Enter Nina, whom he can’t seem to stop obsessing about. She continually pushes him away, tells him it cannot work, that she is in fact a married woman, yet he goes back again and again like some kind of punishment. On top this obsession, he could have the potential to lose his job. He is an Assistant DA and the connections she has is really what could risk him his job. Matthew knows what love is, his grandparents fell in love as teenagers and were a strong foundation of what a relationship is and can be. Why he can’t seem to find what they had is somewhat of a mystery, even to him. While he’s investigating a huge case, Nina, the woman he’s been obsessed about waltzes back into his life and the two become tangled, perhaps more than he could have guessed.

Nina is a rich socialite and tied to the current investigation Matthew has on going. Could those ties be deeper? We don’t find out the full answer to this question in this book, but there are hints that perhaps they could be. Personally, I wasn’t a fan of this relationship overall. Not so much because she was married and Matthew wanted to pursue her, but more so for the reasons Nina insisted or more like continued to stay with her husband. Nina is actually the one in her marriage with money, her husband is abusive, and she is unhappy plain and simple. So why stay with her husband and then also continue to play with Matt’s emotions? I suppose this is what bothered me about their affair when there really seemed to be no motivation.

The story didn’t connect with me, mostly I believe, because it was based on a one night affair where the emotions were still surface level and I never felt them connecting deeper. Most of the time Nina spent the story running away from Matthew telling him their relationship wasn’t going to work while he chased her down and begged her to give him a chance.

Synopsis:

Former Marine. Criminal prosecutor.
I was one of the good guys. Until I met her.

With beauty like a rose and a mind as sharp as thorns,
Nina Gardner went from dalliance to obsession in a single night.
I’d stop at nothing to find her again, to make her mine.

Then I find out:
She’s the daughter of a New York dynasty.
Property of the scum of the earth.

And the subject of my next investigation is…her husband.
Which makes me the other man.

Well, I don’t think I can live with that.
Because now, I don’t think I can live without her.

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