DNF @ 11%

Thank you so much to Berkley Romance, Netgalley, and PRH Audio for providing advanced copies of this. All thoughts and opinions are still my own.

This was one of my most anticipated romances of the year and couldn't wait to fall in love with it. Unfortunately this plot just didn't work for me the way I'd hoped.

First - I did try this via audio for the first 5% and definitely do not recommend going down that route. The narrator was very stilted and every conversation was clunky and awkward. It just didn't flow the way a normal conversation would.

So I switched to the physical copy which I did prefer.

But while I was looking for a workplace romance with some secrets, instead this was heroine who just kept lying. Often unnecessarily. It made me so anxious and uncomfortable that I just couldn't get behind routing for her.

It also seemed like the focus of the story was going to be far more on her career journey, with the romance as a side plot. Which is just not what I was looking for from this.

While this was a miss, I am still very curious to see what this author does next. If you love miscommunication and secrets, this romance might work fantastically for you! It's just not my own personal romance preference.