Carly has been fed up since Matt was brought in to head up projects that would otherwise have gone to her. Now the boss has thought up a new idea – a compatibility survey to decide who'll co-manage the biggest new project. Then she finds out the survey is rigged and that Matt is pre-selected so she decides to tailor her answers to make sure she's most compatible with him. The only problem is he's her real-life polar opposite, except for the sex answers. After they've been paired, he finds out she cheated, then she finds out he knows and they end up in bed, when they're not fighting in the office. The boss tells Matt to sort out his problems, that this was a test to find out if he could work with her, because Carly can work with anybody else. So Matt and Carly decide to help each other out, but when Matt gets the promotion, she has to wonder whether the help was all in one direction. If he has to choose between Carly and his new job, what will Matt do?
I loved a lot of things about this, the fact that I couldn't put it
down was one. I liked that the characters were logical in their
behaviour, that Matt didn't realise quite how bad he'd become, and that
when he started asking himself questions at the end and he went back
and reread his survey answers he couldn't understand why Carly would
have gone out with the jerk he was. I thought the boss was incredibly
dumb to have loused up the situation the way he did and would perhaps
have liked a little more typespace spent on more explanations and tying
up of strings. But that's just me nitpicking. I loved the way they
didn't feel they had to deny the attraction between them, when a blind
man could have seen it. I liked her loyalty to her friends and was
ready to shoot the computer geek. In fact, the only thing I disliked
was that the book ended.
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Aww Sadhbh, you're gonna
Aww Sadhbh, you're gonna make me cry.
I'm so glad you liked it. (And I admit, it was pretty hard working the angle for this book, so don't feel you're nitpicking. I appreciate the food for thought for next time around.)
I'm very happy the book didn't disappoint!
Lori
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Hey Lori - I told you in my email
I just give my honest opinion. Luckily enough for both of us you
write very good books and I haven't had to look up euphemisms for "bad"
"excruciating" or "abysmal" in my thesaurus
Of course you do need to start worrying the day I say it's "different" or "interesting" and just stop there
Hugs
Sadhbh
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Loved your comments
Since I've already read the book & knew you would have it soon I was waiting for your opinion. It is always fun to see what someone else thinks of a book you've enjoyed. Thankfully Lori is talented so we don't have to be "kind"!! We can be truthful.
Take care, happy reading,
Donna M, Dream Team member
Normally each month the
Normally each month the first new books I look at are the Harlequin Presents books. And I buy some of those each month, but I glance over the Blaze books too, don't usually buy though. This one really caught my interest, it looks mmm mmm good. The sexual tension looks like it'll be wild. I love the premise of the book, it sounds like such fun and the heroine sounds witty and ready to throw some surprises at the hero. Yum. I'm gonna have to buy this one!
Hey Janet - hope you enjoy it
don't forget to drop in and give Lori a headsup when your review goes up (it'll torture her nicely
)
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Sadhbh
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