The Job Offer
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4.0 • 250 Ratings
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Publisher Description
After years in Boston and a year of working for herself as a contract consultant and adjunct professor, unemployed Dr. Anne Conner is ready to return home to work in her field as a marine biochemist and research scientist. With money running low, Anne jumps at the chance to interview for her dream job as a research scientist with the world famous Stanford Enterprises research company.
When she makes the final round of interviews, Anne decides to combine her time in Seattle interviewing with a vacation trip to her family's inn on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. The last thing she expected was to run into her childhood friend and object of her teenage dreams, Ben Carlson, who is on the island for his sister's wedding. Nor did she plan on the passion that erupts between them. Is their relationship only a vacation romance as they agreed from the beginning or will it turn into something more when Anne moves back to Seattle?
Just as Anne begins to hope for more, the unthinkable is revealed. Ben is none other than her new boss. Worse yet, he thinks that she only used him to get the job.
Customer Reviews
Stilted
I'm wondering if English is a second language to this author.
The use of contractions is sadly lacking and makes conversations between the main characters sound ridiculously stilted.
Waste of time
Sorry, I know that authors put a lot of effort into their books, but this one was SUCH a waste of my time.
There was HEAPS of what I can only call 'author talk' (the author described every feeling/thought/look/weather pattern/change of scenery in such in depth detail)... I actually kept forgetting about the characters - and not in a good way. I would have to reread just to remember what was happening before the monologs started.
I ended up skimming pages on end, just because it was all just descriptions.
The idea of the story is pretty standard and ok. I'm just expecting a simple read with a few new characters to get to know. Not much to ask for. We all know what's gunna happen - it's all part and parcel to a nice easy read... No problem right! So yes, I did just say that we all know what is gunna happen... But this books took that too a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!!! In-between the pages of what ever description needed endless words sacrificed to its cause... We would have a line (or sometimes ocassionally even more than one - but not by much) of neon flashing lights screaming 'here...this is what's going to happen next'.
I hate to say it, cause I know there are heaps of different readers out there with different tastes... But this may be the first time I really truly want to scream 'STOP...GO BACK...DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!! PLEASE!!!'
Inappropriate language use and verbose sentences which oppose characters language.
The moment I saw the use of the word "stoically" in the first chapter, I thought someone had let a thesaurus run wild throughout the pages. The language is too formal and too many big words make up sentences that reach a mile long. By the time you reach the end of a sentence you forgot what it was about, so have to start again.
Truthfully, I did not actually read it completely. I skimmed it, reading pages at a time. But I'd rather get lost in a good story that uses exquisite words than lost in the exquisite words of a good story.