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The best thing about this book? The two women are
thirty-seven and forty-seven.
This is seriously an excellent thing. We’re a little fed-up
by the fact that all lesbian romances, erotic romances and erotica are about
women in their mid- to late- twenties, with a few early- to mid- thirties sometimes
making an appearance. A notable exception in this age bias is Ab Kaāl’s Everything
Has Changed. That book has the whole butterflies-in-stomach, Before Sunrise
vibe and excitement of falling in love with a more mature couple – and it is
just delicious. C’mon people, women of all ages are sexy.
Gretchen Kaiser is a successful sales manager, just joining
a new company in New York. Kylie O'Brien is the EAA whom she inherits. Neither
is in-your-face open, but they are not particularly closeted either. Gretchen
starts off as a take-no-prisoners, tough-as-nails boss to the whole sales team under
her. Kylie is the sweeter, kinder softie – who Gretchen viciously, verbally
walks over.
Frankly, we don’t see Gretchen’s appeal to Kylie…but Kylie’s
appeal to anyone is hard to miss or overlook. Now, when we don’t like one of
the main leads, it is difficult to get drawn either into the book or the
romance. But Kylie’s draw kept us going.
This is an okay book. Read for Kylie…but you may just get
frustrated (like us) by the fact Kylie like Gretchen. So actually, take it or
leave it. Beers is a fairly good writer, so you can certainly count on a decent
calibre of writing and plot development. She also has all the office tropes
more or less down to a pat. But she really seems to favour this whole Miranda
Priestly kind of boss…and those women are really off-putting.
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