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3.5
Not Safe for Work
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Rival engineers dabble in personal chemistry while at a tropical company retreat in this smart, zippy romcom.Rival engineers dabble in personal chemistry while at a tropical company retreat in this smart, zippy romcom.
Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher—the boss’s son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she’s picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It’s a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program—plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee.
Tris plans to avoid Rafe entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite. Sure, it’s not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten—okay fine, an eleven—but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone. As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?
Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher—the boss’s son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she’s picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It’s a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program—plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee.
Tris plans to avoid Rafe entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite. Sure, it’s not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten—okay fine, an eleven—but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone. As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?
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3.5
“I wanted to love this book.
As a white man, I know my experience in the corporate world is nowhere near as challenging as that faced by a woman of color, especially in a STEM field.
But like… I live in late stage capitalism too. Corporations suck to work for, the rhetoric about inclusivity and colleague well being is mostly hot air. Nepotism not hard work yields results. There’s a lot for anyone to empathise with here that is a universal experience.
That said… the stuff Trish says and does in front of her superiors throughout this book, should have gotten her fired. Like six times over.
It is mind boggling to me that picking a fight and making a scene during a training exercise with another colleague would be viewed favourably by senior staff.
The frustrating thing is that I agree with everything she does, but not how she does it. As someone who has tried very hard to make colleague progressive changes in my own work place for years… I’m sorry but Trish this is not the way.
I think the point was to write a universe where a satisfying “Fuck You” email would land like we all wish it would… rather than something that would pretty badly backfire.
As for the love story… that was fine. The week long only one bed trope was underused.
The vibe is “The Hating Game” but make it less fun.
This is probably a book that felt good to write. But read as woefully unrealistic for the modern corporate world. So I didn’t get that catharsis reading it.
(That company sucks though, and I do like that she did the “fuck you email”)”
“I absolutely loved this book so much and picked it up after her romantasy series as I loved her writing in it and it had me hooked from early on and read this one so quick! It was really enjoyable from the beginning and I loved how they were rivals and really pretended to hate each other when they were really attracted to each other the whole time!! All the tension and the banter was top tier and I really loved them together and how they came together and even though they both had their insecurities they came together and they came together hard and just loved each other hard from the start!! The girl companionship and friendships were done so well and they all loved each other and were so there for each other!! Loved the storm scene and how he steeped up for her and then the ending when he just showed up and told everyone he loved her and then they got their happy ending!! The only unbelievable thing would be his relationship with his dad and they were all good after all that tension and bs I didn’t really believe it but still a really great read overall!!”
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