Title: My Billionaire Grump
Author: Camilla Isley
Date: 2023
ISBN: 978 888 7269833
Quote: "I paid extra for a view. I should have a view!"
Lucy isn't poor; she's an accountant, so although she doesn't like her job she can afford to pay extra for luxuries on a vacation trip to Italy. But George Emerson, the billionaire, has been given the room with the view. Hearing Lucy complain to her buddy Jackson, he offers to trade rooms, in what seems to be the rudest way he can manage. Well, says Jackson, George can afford not to be polite...
Lucy doesn't think she wants to like George. Of course not. She doesn't want to get hurt. She has a healthy appreciation for billionaires as well as her full share of hormones. Lucy loves music, charms everyone at the hotel with her talent, wants to quit accounting and open a music school. It's a romantic comedy. You know how this must end. George will show a cheerful side, friendly with Lucy's brother and even sympathetic to Jackson (who found George attractive too, but also found two other men attractive on the trip to Italy), before it's over. Early in his acquaintance with Lucy he'll tell her that his favorite things include stealing flowers from old ladies' gardens and tearing the wings off butterflies, and he's been so obnoxious Lucy almost believes that, but of course he really likes art and poetry.
I'm not sure how the dreary real-life trope of "He has enough money, I can put up with his miserable personality; every time he yells at me I'll just buy something extravagant" morphed into the romantic-comedy trope in which all the rich lover has to do to be "grumpy" is be quiet in the morning, and then the other half of the couple is delighted when he (or she) shows a normal capacity for enjoyment of life... anyway, romance readers seem to like it.
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