Blurb:
There’s a fine line between love and hate…
Despite a meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realisation that they’re both high -powered agents and competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to smother the flames.
But when their two agencies merge – causing the pair to vie for the same position – all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirty-something professionals – so why can’t they act like it?
Rating: 5/5 stars
Side Notes:
- Genres: Contemporary Romance, Fiction
- Highly recommend for 14 years and above
- TW: Sexism, sexual harassment
- Romance Tropes: Workplace/Office romance, strangers to friends to lovers, frenemies
Book Quotes:
Blurb:
There’s a fine line between love and hate…
Despite a meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Even the realisation that they’re both high -powered agents and competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to smother the flames.
But when their two agencies merge – causing the pair to vie for the same position – all bets are off. What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. Carter and Evie are both thirty-something professionals – so why can’t they act like it?
Rating: 5/5 stars
Side Notes:
- Genres: Contemporary Romance, Fiction
- Highly recommend for 14 years and above
- TW: Sexism, sexual harassment
- Romance Tropes: Workplace/Office romance, strangers to friends to lovers, frenemies
Book Quotes:
- “You look like you’re cycling through a lot of things right now.” “Like what?” “Like whether you should kiss me or punch me.” “It’s a daily struggle.”
- “Simply put, Evelyn Abbey is my former almost-girlfriend-turned-archnemesis-turned-tentative-ally whom I would now very much like to permanently seduce.”
- “I’m notoriously married to my job.” “That’s super convenient because so am I. It’ll be like we’re cheating on our jobs with each other.”
- “I think I’m only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don’t show up any of the men. Speak up, but don’t be bitchy. Smile. And then you have people like Brad totally playing into it. I”
- “You’re wound so tight,” he whispers before bending to kiss my neck. “How do I make you unravel?”
- “I’m not an optimist, but I’m not exactly a pessimist, either. I’m a wait-and-see-when-you-have-more-info-ist.”
- “You’d think I’d be used to this sort of thing by now – navigating a room full of matched-up people, alone – but somehow it never really gets easier.”
- “Screw him and his perfect forearms and cute crooked smile and diva brother. I’m so tired of wanting to shove him into the wall and then shove my hand down his pants.”
- “Now, before you think I’m putting too much thought into this, let me remind you that I am no longer in my twenties, and when you meet men at my age you immediately place them on one of three lists, just to make life easier for everyone: datable, not datable, or gay.”
- “As parents we put our kids through the strangest things because we think it’s giving them some sort of advantage.”