Take Goode News (Goode Girl, #2) Sketched By J.J. Arias Depicted In Digital Copy

enjoyed this book a lot, just like Ive enjoyed every other J, J. Arias book Ive read. Once again we have an enemies to lovers plot going on and I found Val and Madison to be great leads.
I liked the witty dialogue as well as the sexy scenes, Normally in lesfic, the main characters have a conflict aboutof the way through and readers wait with baited breath for them to work it out.
This one was a nice change of pace because while theres a small conflict, our mains didnt break up unnecessarily.
They talked like mature adults, acknowledged, learned from it, and moved on, Thanks JJ for another great read!! I really enjoyed this one! Loved the cohost setting, crushed on Valentina, loved their banter and Madison slowly melting Val's ice queen facade.
Overall well written age gap with a slightly short but sweet ending, I'm at the end of my free month of KU and was searching for a book that I hadn't heard of before.
This popped up and I decided to give it a go due to the promise of an enemiestolovers, agegap, workplace romance three of my favourite tropes!.
I am so glad I took a chance this was really great,
Initially, I was a bit unsure whether Madison was a likeable character and whether that would skew my enjoyment.
However, I think in hindsight this was what made this book so good, As soon as the conflict resolved between the characters and Madison became likeable, I became completely invested in the slow burn romance between her and Valentina.

I think another reason why I liked Goode News so much was due to the plot being something I hadn't seen in lesfic before.
As much as I have enjoyed discovering lesfic in the last year or so, sometimes lesfic novels can feel a little too familiar and a bit cookie cutter in their structure.
This was a read where I couldn't guess what would happen and I absolutely loved that,
Highly recommended and I'm looking forward to reading the sitelinkThe Goode Governor: A Lesbian Romance Series.
in and I can't find anything to like about Madison.
Nothing.

She embodies the reason why older people refuse to view anyone in their twenties as actual adults.
She has no boundaries and isn't selfaware thus far, She isn't afraid to take petty arguments and turn them personal.
She will bring up Valentina's divorce later found out there was no divorce, so why mention it in a room full of people and humiliate her without a second thought all because someone is pushing against an idea of hers.
Seriously, why is she a protagonist

Walking into a meeting late because you think you're special and disrupting the presentation of an almost nameless background character just because you can.
. . without any remorse Who behaves like this

She is so used to everyone liking her that she can't just walk away when one person doesn't.
She needs to push. Poke them to piss them off, Her personality is so personally grating I'm struggling to get through this.


Couldn't really warm up to Madison, Some story inconsistency, some trails that didn't lead anywhere, Rivalry. Intentional humiliation. Confidence that borders on being inappropriate, Some hypocritical moments that forced me to think "If this were a man it wouldn't be okay".
An, at first, almost endless war of generational differences,

See highlights if curious,

Not the kind of enemies to lovers I was looking for, HEA

Only my opinion, so I say give it a go, This is second in a romance series but they aren't very related, You can certainly read them out of order and not miss anything, I think,

Ugh, Valentina, The first, um, third was her being really mean to Madison, Yeah, I get it. Her presence derailed a plan you thought was in the bag, Get over yourself and stop taking it out on the innocent bystander, It was petty and unprofessional and I kept going solely because Madison was interesting,

I had an initial concern that Madison's beef with monogamy, and accompanying polyleanings, was going to be shallow or played for titillation.
But it actually held together fairly well and had some nuance to it so I bought it as background and was looking forward to her developing a connection and what that would look like in a relationship.


And I got nearly half a book of fun relationship developments, Valentina was pretty cool once she let go of her resentment and her care for Madison was nearly as engaging and Madison's care for her.
I particularly liked that Valentina was clear about her relationship needs monogamy, essentially and stuck to her guns even though she really liked/wanted/lusted for Madison.


And then Valentina decided to manipulate through informationwithholding in the way romance authors do to setup future dark moments.
And then Arias asks us to believe that a national talent search for news anchors would have it's first and second pick come from the same local news show.
This seems dubiously unlikely, particularly given how different the two are and that there's a specific slot/dynamic that needs filling.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't come up with a decisionmaking process that would come up with very different people being considered topshot to fill a specific newsshow opening.
So I felt manipulated and all my sympathy for Valentina dropped on the floor and I was done.


I'm going to give a second star for Madison and her strength in standing up to the people who needed to be stood up to.
And a bit of that for Valentina in the one issue she had a backbone for,

A note about Madison's poly thing: Her point is that asking one person to fill all your engagement needs is a big ask.
It's an interesting point. Having one person for lit fic and another for night on the town etc, makes sense to a certain extent, But only because Madison is highly desirable and can command her own terms in relationships, I kept waiting for someone to call her on or her to realize/acknowledge her strong position in the sexual marketplace and how that maybe she can arrange things to suit herself more than most can.
So her philosophy breaks down if you aren't her, essentially, I'm okay that that didn't happen before I stopped reading because it worked as her starting position just fine and I'm good with her growing out of it in finding her person in Valentina.
But it would have been an interesting conversation if/when someone called her out on the glaring flaw in her poly position.
Great story

Beautifully written with agegap characters who start off resenting each other but end up falling in love.
Loved that the author touched on pansexuality, I understand it better now, I liked the characters and the storyline and would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves sweet lesbian romances.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, I thought it went too quickly from icy to dating and then the ending resolved too quickly as well.
The storyline was relevant and interesting, however, given that while I was reading this book fordays I read two stories in the news of older women broadcasters being fired/discriminated against.
Also, the hurricane storyline was of extra interest after the horrific hurricane that hit Florida not too long ago.
I liked Goode Governor a bit more than this and will continue the series, It is a bit of slowburn kinda romance, but there is still hotness when they finally come together.
Of course, things can't be easy when one is a lonelyyearold single woman who hasn't been with anyone intimately in overyears and another who is a more freespirited, hardtohandle, and, as she states, poly practicing person.
I've met a poly person in my life, and while she's a funloving person at heart, I knew that she didn't have a clue as to what she really wanted out of a relationship and that's why she would gof rom partner to partner and eventually settled for one of them.
Still, Madison, calling herself poly when she was in a committed relationship was something that kinda pissed me off.
I understand that it is nowand a new decade, but millenials and my generation GenZ, don't all understand the complexities of what it means to be in a healthy, monogamous relationship and this

story really brought that whole concept to the forefront.
It casted a shadow over the whole story, but when Madison wanted Val and went after her, she knew she had to give up her old ways of being poly.
there was a few scenes where I thought she might slip up, like the one with Alex, but then we see that she realizes what she's doing is wrong and feels bad for somehow secretly hurting Val.
I love JJ Arias but not this book, I didnt get into it until the lastpages, which admittedly, went in a better direction than I expected.
But until that point, I could not get into the story or the characters who didnt have chemistry.
Madison came off as predatory initially and I didnt love the way polyamory was portrayed seemed like Madison was collecting traits she liked best like twisted friendship vs falling in love with multiple people.
I wanted more about why Madison was how she was, Roxanne was my favorite her commentary on pregnancy cracked me up,

Short summary: like the Morning Show but without the scandal and if the coanchors wereyears apart and enemies to lovers.
Goode read

The tight POV control really helped this story keep its tensions realistic.
I liked the dynamics between the leads a lot Honestly, I thought Valentina was just too annoying.
Rivalry.

This is the second book of the Goode Girl series and since there isn't much connection to the first, it can be read as a standalone.
And I would recommend this book because it's really good, A couple of reviews have referenced the Morning Show and I suppose this book has a similar storyline but I can't say much about it because I haven't watched it yet.


But I'd like to say that this book is so much smoother than the first and I think J.
J Arias put up a good story on rival news anchors to lovers, The rivalry in the workplace felt real and I think Arias really nailed the pacing of the transition from rivals to lovers.
I really love how Valentina and Madison built their relationship with a lot of thought and reflection, open communication and by setting expectations.
And I love the dynamics between them, It was so hot!.