Three's A Crowd by S.R Booker

 

Out-of-work actor Harriet is recuperating from a crash-and-burn affair with Damian – aka ‘Cockweasel’ – and making ends meet as a barista when she meets two rather lovely men. Tom is a regular at the café, and seems like such a nice guy. Smooth-talking DJ Richard is older, but in great shape – a real silver fox.
 
Deciding to take a chance on both of them, Harriet doesn’t realise at first that she is actually dating father and son. Tom and Richard aren’t on speaking terms, and don’t share a last name – so how was she to know? By the time everyone finds out, both Tom and Richard are truly madly deeply in love with Harriet, and she’s faced with an impossible choice.
 
But as the battle for her affections intensifies, ‘Cockweasel’ makes an unexpected reappearance and begs her to give him another chance…

Squirrelled away feeling sorry for myself with covid I needed a pick me up and seeing Milly Johnsons quote on the front of Three’s A Crowd ‘If ever a book was a mood-lifter it’s this one. I cried laughing’ this sounded like just the tonic.

Harriet is a newly single failed actress facing her own battles as she makes ends meet by working as a barista but her life is set to change when she meets not one but two charming men, but they would offer her two very different lives. As she begins to get to know them the men are falling hopelessly in love with her until a spanner is put in the works when thanks to her new success it is revealed that both men know each other, a little too close to home, they are father and son!

This was such a bizarre storyline that was completely so farfetched, but it was also addictive, and I couldn’t put it down leaving me to read it in one big swoop! I am not going to sit here and say I related to the main character in any way because the thought of choosing between father and son brings vomit to my throat and I didn’t warm to Harriet or her morals and yet thanks to this authors writing he still made me inquisitive and unable to stop reading.

Tom and his dad Richard have a complex relationship and as nuggets of information are dropped during the book you can begin to see why there is no love lost between the two of them and made it a little more understandable as to why neither man feels like they should bow out of the challenge of winning Harriet’s heart.

There are numerous witty moments but most I found involved Harriet’s nan who played a smaller role in the book but made her presence well and truly known when she was around!

This was a fast paced lighthearted read that does touch on mental health but not in a deep way. If you want something easy and quick reading that will have you chuckling away at points and mind boggled the next then this book is right up your street!

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