Office Mate
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2.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a standalone office RomCom about what happens when the one you walked away from was now not only your boss but also your new partner in a high-stakes office game...
I liked to think things happened in threes:
1. My girlfriend ghosted me and changed her number.
2. I got promoted, but I worked for Satan.
3. Months later, said girlfriend was back in my life, working underneath me as an intern.
Ah, the universe had jokes, ha, ha, hilarious.
All I had to do was survive the fourth annual Emory Games, a ridiculous office bonding game that Max Emory, our CEO, put on every year to help boost company morale and encourage the new interns.
Yeah, just ask me if they felt encouraged after diving into shark-infested waters. Don't worry... only one person got hurt, and the accidental death paperwork was sound.
I had to work with her as my partner for a full week, and then I could bounce back to my department, pretend that she hadn't broken my heart, and run me over with my own truck for good measure.
I should have been focused on the games, except again, things happened in threes...
1. She's my partner.
2. She's hiding something.
3. I may have fallen on her and kissed her. It's a thing, it actually happens in real life—people just fall, and mouths meet, and what are you going to do?
Hi, my name is Ace Harley, and I am two point five seconds away from marching down to HR and begging for therapy.
Being an adult sucks balls.
Customer Reviews
Slightly confusing start.
Slightly confusing start. Ace and Bri meet by chance, and it changes both their lives, as Ace is lonely, and Bri is looking to end things. For the next year they are together and happy, until Bri breaks up with Ace and disappears. Ace is so upset, understandingly so, and Bri is working to move on with her life, starting with securing an internship with Emory Hotels, and it’s there that they reconnect. Through a Hunger Games-style initiation to secure a position at the company, Bri and Ace are paired together to compete, giving them the ability to work through why Bri ran after breaking up with Ace, and what led to the breakup to begin with. I was really confused at the beginning of this book, it started pretty abruptly, and the company and initiations are a little strange, but overall, it was a good read with Bri and Ace working through why she ran and them getting a second chance at things.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
Wonderful romcom
I would give this book more 3.5 stars. This one was unlike her others that I’ve read. Ace and Bri have met before but the timing had been off. Bri had gone away and worked on herself and Ace has always held something for her. Thrown back together again will the sparks still fly?
This was a different book that I’ve read from her before. Now I didn’t dislike it, but it wasn’t my favorite. I just felt it was rushed overall. I enjoyed the banter between the two characters. That made me laugh and the different scenarios they got into. The story was a nice short story that was easy to read.
I received this ARC through the publisher and I am voluntarily reviewing this book, opinions are my own