
Author: Sally Thorne
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 316
Date read: October, 2019
Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. And the feeling is mutual.
Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. There’s the Staring Game. The Mirror Game. The HR Game. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything—especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking.
If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. If she loses, she’ll resign. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth-shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong.
Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.
I had this recommended to me, because I'd enjoyed "The Unhoneymooners" so much. I'm glad, because even though it couldn't quite compare to TU, I still really enjoyed it, and read most of it in a day. Chick-lit has come a LONG way since the late 90s/early 00s when I mostly gave up on the genre, and I couldn't be happier.
Once again it's the enemies-to-lovers trope, although the switch from one to the other is a lot more sudden, and not quite as believable. Still, I loved seeing how Lucy and Josh changed their ways of interacting, and read most of the book in just one sitting.
The end did come a few days sooner than I would have preferred, but it never did promise to be anything other than feel-good fluff, so I can live with it.