Okay, so there are some things really hard to digest in this
one, in particular, the complete normalization of boss-subordinate sexual
relations in a workplace.
Paisley Healy, an executive assistant, fell in love with her
boss/owner of the firm, Georgina Weaver. Their relationship idyll ended
when Georgina disappeared without as much as a goodbye. Current day Paisley is
now in a colleagues-with-benefits relationship with her current boss, Victoria
Walsh. When they are in the midst of an intimate encounter in the office, albeit out of office hours, Georgia walks in on
them. She has returned without any fanfare after three (or so years). So then
there is this whole they love each other, shouldn’t can’t be together with a
mix of death-threat from Paisley’s Mafioso father in the past that had caused
their separation. And yes, it felt like Georgina was constantly…constantly…crying.
This book felt like drama for drama’s sake without eliciting
any sympathy for Georgina despite the author’s best efforts. Paisley is okay,
and that is simply because she is the better of the two MCs. Georgina is supposed to be a badass, much-feared, much-revered boss -- but nobody seems to be in any awe of her and she seems quite ineffectual. While we cannot
call this outright WTF or bad, we did wish we had invested the time spent on
this one elsewhere.
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