Alisha Rai has done it again with The Right Swipe. It hooks you and drags you in with the first chapter. After that first chapter I’m thinking…OOH this is going to be good!!

Rhiannon is a computer app designer who hooks up anonymously through her Bumble type app with ex-football player Samson. Next thing she knows he’s the face of the matchmaking company she want to buy.

The Right Swipe has so much great story going for it:
Internet/App dating
Modern dating customs
CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in football and the damage it does to players and their families
The #MeToo movement
The struggles of women and minorities in the tech industry
Romance
Great, believable characters you can really care about.

Wonderful book, really enjoyed it!

FYI. Rhiannon was a minor character, Gabe’s sister, in Hurts to Love You (Forbidden Heart series).

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins for the ARC

This book was so great! I got an advanced copy from Netgalley. I appreciated the relationship between the protagonists and how much they respected each other’s work and dreams. It was a fun bonus that we got to see a few characters again from Rei’s Forbidden Hearts series. I love the way she writes family relationships and friendships. Already can’t wait for the next one in this series!

I loved Alisha Rai's Forbidden Hearts trilogy, so I was super excited for this new book. The heroine of The Right Swipe is Rhiannon, the CEO of dating app Crush (and Gabe's sister from the earlier books). Rhiannon was forced out of her position at a rival company and has some (totally fair) lingering bitterness and trust issues. She's interested in purchasing Matchmaker, a more web-based dating company, but is alarmed to find out that a guy who ghosted her is now working for that company'. I loved Rhiannon - she's prickly and smart and loyal and funny, and it was so wonderful to read about an ambitious woman in her mid-30s who has it together professionally. I also loved the hero, Samson, who was a pro football player who quit over the league's unethical stance on CTE and concussions. The two of them are absolutely charming together, and their relationship was just lovely. (Rai also writes about consent really, really well, which I appreciate.) I also loved the Crush storyline, and the way Rai highlights issues of gaslighting and toxicity through the truly terrible things that both characters' previous employers did to them. This was absolutely wonderful and I can't wait for the next in the series - hoping it will feature Katrina and Jia.

Rhiannon is the driven, successful CEO of a popular dating app. Samson is a former NFL star who walked off the field in protest over untreated player head injuries. He's also the nephew of a rival dating service owner, and he's just agreed to be their new spokesman. But what no one knows is, Samson and Rhiannon also had an anonymous night together that ended badly. Now they're being thrown together again as Samson's aunt considers selling her business to one of several competitors.

This was a delightful book, warm and full of wit, with satisfying redemption for both protagonists. It's been a while since I read Alisha Rai's previous series, and I didn't realize until 2/3 through that Rhiannon's brother Gabe is the same Gabe from Hurts to Love You (which is a terrific book, too).