Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Genre: Romance
Summary:
To get her dream job, she’ll have to date her worst nightmare . . .
Grace Hastings is in a rut. Her career is stagnating, her boss is a leech, and she feels like a fraud working for Fate, a dating app whose ethos she no longer believes in. And don’t even get her started on the state of her love life.
So when the company’s CEO offers her an opportunity for a big promotion and the chance to work on the launch of a dating app that she actually cares about, Grace can’t believe her luck.
That is, until she discovers that she must test drive a series of ‘first dates’ with her competition for the job: notorious socialite playboy and Grace’s biggest work rival, Eric Bancroft.
But Grace refuses to give up her dream job because of a man. And besides, how romantic can a handful of fake dates with your biggest rival really be?
There’s absolutely no way it’s an office romance waiting to happen.
Review:
Firstly thank you to Zoo Loos Book Tours, Penguin and Annabelle Slator for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I absolutely adored this book! It was the perfect read for valentines week and I devoured it. I think I read the first 19 chapters in one sitting because I was so engrossed and drawn into the story I just didn't want to put it down. I loved the banter between Eric and Grace and how we watched their relationship unfold and grow. And I have to say I really liked the we had the flashbacks of a sort showing us bits of their friendship and bits of Graces relationship with William. But by god was William a complete arse, I did an out loud "you go girl" at Grace with that last interaction with him, he defiantly deserved that!
I really enjoyed the writing style of Annabelle Slator, it was easy flowing that I found stepping into the story a dream. Nothing broke my emersion (aside from family members interrupting me) and I felt like a fly on the wall watching Grace but I loved it and I really cant wait to read more by her. Its defiantly a strong debut, the tension between Grace and Eric was rolling off the pages and even though, because it a romance, you know where its going it just had you gunning for them the whole time.
If romance is your thing, this is a book you need to pick up.
Firstly thank you to Zoo Loos Book Tours, Penguin and Annabelle Slator for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
So I absolutely adored this book! It was the perfect read for valentines week and I devoured it. I think I read the first 19 chapters in one sitting because I was so engrossed and drawn into the story I just didn't want to put it down. I loved the banter between Eric and Grace and how we watched their relationship unfold and grow. And I have to say I really liked the we had the flashbacks of a sort showing us bits of their friendship and bits of Graces relationship with William. But by god was William a complete arse, I did an out loud "you go girl" at Grace with that last interaction with him, he defiantly deserved that!
I really enjoyed the writing style of Annabelle Slator, it was easy flowing that I found stepping into the story a dream. Nothing broke my emersion (aside from family members interrupting me) and I felt like a fly on the wall watching Grace but I loved it and I really cant wait to read more by her. Its defiantly a strong debut, the tension between Grace and Eric was rolling off the pages and even though, because it a romance, you know where its going it just had you gunning for them the whole time.
If romance is your thing, this is a book you need to pick up.
Krystina xx
