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Mar 17, 2018SPPL_Vio rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Generally, I stay away from the romance genre. Don't get me wrong. I like a healthy dose of love in my books. But a book wherein the entire premise and plot rests on the whole "will they/won't they" dynamic seems weak and tawdry. In 99% of the cases, they will, though they'll try real hard to make it seem like they won't. But that's obvious, and it's not the reason people read these books. The punchline's always the same, so the hope is always that the joke is somehow interesting and different from all of the others. That's what I hoped for too. The first third of the book really did it for me. You have to coworkers who hate each other with every fiber of their beings, so it seems. They've just been told that a new C.O.O. position in the company is opening up and they must compete for the role. Wham. Bam. Thank you, m'am. But, at one moment in the story, a moment that came WAY too soon, the sharp back-and-forth, the fun jabs, the great banter that Lucy and Joshua had are just...GONE. The rest of the book is predictable, boring, and a tad disconcerting.