A scavenger hunt like you never seen before!

Synopsis

When Kiara is dumped by text and then ghosted by her boyfriend, she resolves to concentrate on her successful artist career and leave dating to those who can handle that heartbreak. 

But the chance to dress up as a teacup work of art and participate in a scavenger hunt at the New York City modern art museum to win her favorite artist’s painting has her pairing up with a stranger dressed as a Rembrandt. 

He may not know much about modern art, but he certainly knows how to make her heart beat. 

Can Kiara take a chance on love again?

My review

The last thing on Kiara’s mind is attending a scavenger hunt at the New York City modern art museum after not only being dumped by text by her boyfriend, but also being ghosted by him.
Her only focus will be on her own artistic career. But the opportunity to win her favourite artist’s painting is a too great opportunity to just let it pass.
Even if that means that she is being paired up with a stranger dressed as a Rembrandt, while Kiara herself is a teacup work of art.
Will this unlikely pair of strangers manage to win the painting, even if Rembrandt doesn’t know much about modern art? And what about the fact that this stranger makes Kiara’s heart beat a little bit faster? 

Okay, I have read several books of this amazing author, and I adored each and every one of them. So despite my fear of reading a novella that would be too short for my liking, I just had to read this story. 

And I didn’t regret it for one moment! Even if it’s still too short for my liking (I truly believe that the author would have managed to write a complete novel without boring her readers!), it was a wonderful, hilarious story. 

It’s very easy to like and even sympathize with a character like Kiara. There couldn’t be a worst way of getting dumped than by text (although, I still remember an episode of a certain series set in New York, where main character C. gets dumped over a post – it…). And not only that, add the horrendous fact of being ghosted too! 

I liked it how Kiara’s mood was also reflected in her artwork. Somehow that made her more real to mee, as it shows how normal people would react and how the pain reflects in their creations.
Even if I am not a modern art lover myself (sorry people, I just don’t get it…), I admired Kiara’s creativity, in not only her own artwork, but also in creating a marvellous costume! 

The scavenger hunt itself made me feel rather oblivious, as again, I don’t have a thing for modern art. In that notion, I felt myself more agreeing with Finn, the stranger, as he also felt like a fish out of the water.
But Finn for sure makes up his lack of knowledge with his determination and good spirits! 

While both Kiara and Finn are rather reluctant of meeting new people, with both their own reasons, and having their differences, it was just amazing to see how good along they get together.
And also reading how they just get each other… 

I truly loved reading this novella, and how Kathy Strobos managed to put so much of everything in a novella amazed me.
Having more chapters would obviously have been even greater than this novella, yet I cannot say I didn’t love the tale of Kiara and Finn.
A short novella that shows us that not only we can find what makes us heart beat faster at the most unexpected place or timing, but also how alike people can be even when they think otherwise, even if expressed in another way!