This was my first book by Delancy Stewart and it won't be my last. Great story and strong characters with real world problems that drew you in.

Sexy and angsty! Plus, who doesn't love a CEO romance?

I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review.
Bad cover, bad title, decent book.
Typical romance book with a bit if grit. Really liked both main characters and supporting characters too.

couldn't connect with the characters nor the story.. and to be honest it seemed flat and boring

„A year ago my life was perfect“ - Oliver Codys world is now upside down and he struggles with the incidentsn happened to him.

„I was a girl with a plan“ - that´s Holland O’Dell – a girl who wants to be successful and to work hard to reach her goals.

Both met at a coffeeshop – Oliver the CEO, Holland unaware of his position.

While I enjoyed some of the interaction between the characters and had some good laughs too I more often I thought, Oliver was a whining little boy, missing his favourite toy. It was implausible for me that he was able to lead a company but not able to have a relationship.

Holland was a very likeable main character – and my overall rating of the book is a solid 3 star, because I had fun with most of the book and the supporting „characters“.

Grrr...I wanted to love this book so much and just never got there. The story starts out great and I was drawn into Oliver's story and his pain. I didn't fall in love with Holland right away but thought that over time I would warm up to her more. Sadly that never happened and I just was pulled further and further away from liking these two as a couple. There was so much of her inner dialog and ever thought she had but none of her thinking made any logical sense to me. Why would you share your super secret product idea with someone you don't even know who claims to work (or used to work) at the company all because some coffeehouse guy says he is a "good guy"? Wouldn't you demand to know who he was? Why would you trust someone who won't answer your questions with something so important. I just couldn't help but roll my eyes so much during this book. Hoping that things would improve I pressed on and although there were some good moment along the way overall I just never felt the connection between these two characters and struggled through finishing a lot of this book waiting for something more to happen.

The story was written well, but lacked some power to hook you into it. I had trouble getting to the end...

Oliver is supposed to be this vibrant and smart young man who started Cody Technology with his father. However, he suddenly decides he wants something else and goes surfing. Eight months later, his parents die and he is back to being CEO. But Oliver doesn't want to be. He is angry and hurt. Because his parents - who lovingly raised him and gave him all their love - failed to tell him he is adopted. And he can't forgive them. Like a toddler, he lashes out to everything and everyone. Almost sinks the company.

Until Holland, smart cookie and new employee at Cody's, enters his life and shares her idea for a new programme. They work together and .. well...

I actually disliked Oliver. A lot. I thought him spoiled, bratty and immature. The events in the book kept coming back to his immaturity. I did like other characters like the secretary and Holland's sister. But Holland and Oliver together were a bit meh. Who likes a guy who chickens out of a relationship because she is pregnant? And this is not really a spoiler as I sensed it early on.

On a positive note: this is not a bad book. It is written in a pleasant style but with less annoying characters and a better pacing it would be much better.

<b>Mr. Big</b> is a book that deals with love, loss, and self doubt. The emotions that the characters frequently dealt with are some that we all have felt at one point in time. We have two characters in Oliver and Holland who are at a crossroads in life.

Oliver is back from an 8 month long vacation after learning about the death of his parents. Angry and lost, Oliver refuses to return to his role of CEO of Cody Technology. Holland graduated at the top of her class and still lost out on her dream job to an unqualified man. Holland settles for less with the goal being to work hard and be noticed by her bosses. After a less than stellar meeting at the company's coffee shop, Holland unknowingly develops a relationship with Oliver who keeps his identity hidden from her until she has to present the project. Without spoiling too much, the both work together to work out the kinks of Holland's project and slowly start to fall in love with one another.

The book did a great job in portraying how tough it is for a woman to succeed in the professional world, despite having all the qualifications. No matter how hard a woman works, a less qualified man will always come out on top. Despite this setback, Holland works hard and eventually comes through with a deal that may save the company. The book also delves into how we deal with the loss of parents and self doubt. Both characters at some point have lost loved ones. Oliver and Holland also deal with self doubt. I love that nothing came easy for the pair. It was never smooth sailing and they worked through their issues. I would definitely recommend this book to readers.

* I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review*

"I choose you" literally my favorite line from this book. I loved this I look. Dramatic in all the right ways and also a very easy read.

Overall good writing. Interesting plot and romance. thanks

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This one was just okay for me. I had a hard time simply because I got so frustrated with the main characters. They were both so bogged down in their own heads, and although I understood it at first and thought it made for good backstories, I grew weary of it after a while. The story started to lag when neither made any real, lasting progress. It was difficult for me to believe that Holland would take a penny of Oliver's money (she was undoubtedly making enough of her own with her new job, and she seemed too proud to accept any of his short of being unable to afford food), and It also seemed unrealistic to me that she would forgive him as easily as she did, no matter how much she loved him. The writing itself was good, and would give this author another try to see if I liked other characters better, but these two did not win me over.

a good read

Holland and Oliver were an awesome couple, I loved how they just understood one another. The problem Oliver had I can imagine would be disconcerting for someone but at times I wanted to kick his butt for how he behaved toward Holland. That being said Holland could be a brat too, ultimately I found myself invested in their story which is the biggest compliment I can pay any author.

The characters are written so beautifully that their emotion leaps from the pages. You feel for Oliver and everything he's been through and Holland is perfect for him. It was an enjoyable read.

Overall, the theme of this book was quirky and lighthearted. Feel the ending left me hanging about the two main characters relationship and could've included more details about Ruby's friend Amie and her fiancé. Something like a teaser for their further adventures.

This was a very enjoyable book but I don't feel the book description does it justice. This book starts with Oliver, who is a guy with everything. He has his own megamillionaire type of company, the girlfriend, the best parents. Everything is great but he has just graduated college and he is burned out...so he takes off.

Then he gets a call. His parents are dead and they lied to him his whole life and the company needs him. But he is so angry at the world and his parents and he hates his own company but they keep bothering him to run it for him.

Meanwhile we meet Holland. The girl with nothing. No boyfriend, a job but not the one she wanted and so she works long hours to try and get that opportunity. The two end up meeting at a coffee shop and Oliver spots her working on this project for his company and he is inspired to help her.

She does not know he is the head guy, and so they work together. As she does not know who he is. It was not really a boss/employee relationship.. I felt it was more she doesn't know who he really is romance. with him incognito and him dealing with his pain of losing the parents he loved .

It was really great and I loved how into Holland Oliver was. The writing was really great too though this is my first story by this author. Though I will need to read more from her.

Mr. Big was a good read. I enjoyed both Oliver and Holland's characters and I enjoyed their back and forth banter. I also enjoyed quite a few laughs while reading this story. I could understand how from Holland's view, her image and what she accomplished would be seen as something else. Oliver didn't care, but I wanted him to be a bit more understanding and I also wanted Holland to see where he was coming from. I didn't really care for Holland forgiving him so easily. I wanted to see him beg a little for her forgiveness, she deserved it after everything she had to go through on her own, but I enjoyed the ending and the story overall. Would I recommend this book? Yes. It was a little predictable but it was a good read even though I didn't agree with the way the characters let simple things turn into huge somethings. I enjoyed it and I'm sure other readers will.

This is a love story, that has many emotional parts. You have Holland who is young and was abandoned at birth so she has grown up in different foster homes, but luckily she does have her foster sister Delia. She lives by plans, and wants them in order, so she sets out to conquer her first one, which is to be successful in her field, and while she is doing research, she meets Hale, who is disgruntled and he helps her out. Oliver is Hollands "Hale" but she does not know that he is the CEO of the company she works in, because of his appearance, and they start to fall in love, he does admit who he is, and she does not want people to think that she made it because of sleeping with the CEO, and then the drama begins. If I were her, I would have made him suffer a little more, but I did not write book.

I did not care for the characters. I thought they were not sympathetic and they didn't draw me to them. The book was written well enough that I finished but no warm fuzzy at all...More like relief.