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Such an entertaining, hilarious, and unique book!
Lucy and Joshua are coworkers who hate each other with a passion. They are constantly trying to one-up each other and play strange little “games” all day like “The Staring Game” or “The HR Game,” where they threaten to report each other to HR for the umpteenth time. When a huge promotion is offered at work, and both of them want the job, the dynamics shift, the games increase, and a new kind of passion is unleashed underneath all the hatred.
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Lucy and Joshua are coworkers who hate each other with a passion. They are constantly trying to one-up each other and play strange little “games” all day like “The Staring Game” or “The HR Game,” where they threaten to report each other to HR for the umpteenth time. When a huge promotion is offered at work, and both of them want the job, the dynamics shift, the games increase, and a new kind of passion is unleashed underneath all the hatred.
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I don't care that romances get a bad rep, this book was a delight. I loved that it was dramatic, but not TOO dramatic. You know the more I read romance novels, the more I realized how much BS would be skipped if we just communicated properly!
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I've never encountered a romance that had such an excellent train of thought and dialogue in general. Lucy was compelling and I'm sure everyone who read it felt as though they were in her shoes. It was atmospheric in all the best ways and it felt like the type of book you could read really anywhere. On a train, cozied up with blankets, outside in the summer with a glass of lemonade. The sexual tension was through the roof and I spent most of the book screeching both silently and audibly for Lucy
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3.5. It was a solid romance novel. I don't love the rivals-turned-lovers trope much... especially not in an office setting. But an enjoyable lighthearted read regardless.
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