Read My Lips was a cute, quick read. I really enjoyed the fake billionaire main character and how that played into the plot. I couldn’t get behind the romance. For me, it wasn’t believable. There wasn’t enough build up before the main characters got together. That being said I still enjoyed this story. Thank you to NetGalley and Kelle Riley for the eARC.

I love the concept for this book! Its exciting and something different, not the typical rich guy romance books I've read before.

In Read My Lips, Clayton is a self-made business tycoon who has a shocking secret: he is severely dyslexic. He goes to an adult reading clinic his complany sponsors and meets Claire but doesn’t want anyone to know about his struggles, so introduces himself as Archie. Of course, they fall in love and he waits far too long to trust that he’s finally met a woman who’s not out for his money. Claire has her own baggage, coming off a relationship with one of Clayton’s executives who presented Claire’s ideas as if they were his own and then slut shamed her to the rest of their coworkers.

I was very interested in the book blurb because I have both a husband and a son who are dyslexic. I appreciated the depiction of it—the embarrassment of not being able to read and write well, the skills one develops in order to compensate in a world full of words. I think it didn’t work for me because of the lies—when one character is completely deceptive throughout the story, it’s just too much of a suspension of disbelief when the other character gets over it within a matter of days (this is the second book I’ve read recently where that has happened and both really bothered me). Maybe that’s just me, though.

Thank you to @netgalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #stlreads #steamyromance #netgalley #readmylips

I'm sorry, but I just could not get into it. It's a me problem obviously. The dialogue felt a bit off, I couldn't get a clear picture of the scenes in my head (if that's not a weird thing to say).
Unfortunately it didn't keep my interest for long. I still want people to give it a chance, so I'm not going to post reviews on Goodreads/IG.

3.5 stars.
A often fascinating insight into living with dyslexia, “Read my Lips”, by Kelle Z. Riley, features a charming hero with vulnerabilities and a woman wary of love.
The hero’s mix of strength and vulnerability, power and tenderness is engaging. Despite all his success, Clayton still feels insecure about his worth and has uncertainties.
And it’s always exciting to read a book with a different hero.
I really liked the parts about Clayton dealing with his dyslexia, although some dimensions lacked more development to be fully believable.
This was a light, quick read, so I didn’t mind the sometimes naive views of the corporate world and the peculiar functioning of the clinic. But suspending disbelief with this patient/therapist relationship was a bit harder.
This was enjoyable, a sweet romance with charming characters, but in the end I’d trade the extended “steamy sessions” for more about Clayton’s struggles and ways of coping.

Miss Riley has penned a powerful story that delicately touches on the personal struggles and the associated stigma plaguing anyone dealing with dyslexia. The book also speaks to some of the injustices in workplaces where gender and authority dictates how far your career choices will take you. Claire had to make unplanned and unfair career changes because she was too trusting of the person who should have had her welfare first and foremost in his heart. We get to take the journey with her as she learns to trust again and deal with the parallelism of her life then and now. Though the culmination of the story was somewhat predictable, the emotions elicited weren't, you got the feeling of living her life alongside her. This was a well written book that was not only powerful, enlightening and deeply emotional, but satisfactory in the end. I recommend this book without prejudice and am thankful for the ARC from Netgalley.

This was like a wanna-be Fifty Shades of Gray. It started out ok. The conversations were a little off. Do people really talk that cheesy... But then the lust story started and it just was silly. Not for me.

The fake identity mixed with contemporary romance was certainly well-written. I definitely did not expect to get through it in one sitting and wished it was a little longer. The emotional aspect of dyslexia is something I haven't heard or read about, so it was a refreshing new concept. I didn't quite like how hastily the ending had been written and wished there was more clarification. The plot should have been developed more, especially background info on Claire and where she's from. However, overall the book was an enjoyable one-off. The excerpt to the second book is amazing and I cannot wait to read it, because it sounds that there might be some action mixed romance genre which sounds delightful.

I don’t know how to directly give feedback to author/publisher privately. I will not be posting this feedback on Goodreads.

Some misses on this one brought me out of the story. It occurred frequently enough, I had trouble suspending disbelief and more and more oddities stood out.
Here are my suggestions:
- I did not get information about Claire or Clayton’s personality prior to the smut starting. Therefore, it felt like porn-without-plot and didn’t work for amping up the romance. Needs more about their personalities/character/attributes in the first 25% of the book.
-It didn’t feel modern or contemporary. I was unsure of the epoch. They got a disposable camera at Navy Pier? So not in this century? Him pretending to “force” her, also not up-to-date, consent is sexy.
-I got the fairytale vibe quickly, even without the words “fairytale” or the prince. Consider going one way or another for the entire book. Either amp up the fairytale/Dickens aspect or make it more modern (lose the prince, no Cinderella references or “bipity bopity boo”).
-Change names. The names felt musty and like this should be set in the UK, mid/early 1900’s. Also Jimmy’s diction was over the top.
-Jimmy is his best buddy but disappears in the middle 50% of the book.
-Occupations didn’t line up. Claire is somehow “punished” as an entry level marketing employee by working as an untrained reading specialist for a failing 10 year literacy program? Confused as well with Clayton’s level of dyslexia. He can read sentences at times but has trouble with letter recognition?
-ages? Clayton is a self-made billionaire with a fudge empire (hard to swallow that). Is he in his 50’s? Claire has student loans and this seems to be her first marketing job?

Those are my recommendations/concerns. Best of luck!