I was reading this at the same time as I was reading Challenger by Adam Higginbotham and I can honestly say that I was much more stressed out while reading this romance than I was reading about an explosion on a space shuttle. That’s not exactly what I was hoping for!

The romance was good, the setting and office drama felt very relatable, and the story felt very much like a classic 80s romcom. But the lies spiraling out of control led to an incredibly nerve wracking reading experience. This book examines what it’s like to be the first in your family to work in an office, and how people take advantage of that lack of experience or completely keep you from the opportunity altogether, especially when you’re not a white guy. So in some ways I understood why Ember lied so much, most of the time you’ve got to fake it till you make it in order to make ends meet. But some lies just felt unnecessary and outside of what I would have expected for her character, and this made me root less for her romance (let this hot dude help you! At the very least let him in on the truth!). 

On the whole, this felt like something that should immediately be adapted into a movie but could be taken down by like a couple notches in the stakes just to make sure the romance really shines (and so the stress does not!). I really hope we see more romances for side characters that came up in this book, I’d love to stay with these characters in different scenarios!