Faker

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh my god what the hell

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I went into this book confident I was going to enjoy it. The synopsis sounds cute and I like office enemies-to-lovers romances– there were no flags for me. Unfortunately, I really ended up disliking this one.

First off, right off the bat I had a difficult time with how the author describes things. I have read the entirety of the book and still have no idea how their office space is set up for the things they do to actually happen. Perhaps it is because I don't work in a traditional office, but I still don't see how two offices on either side of a hall, diagonally, can still be close enough for Tate to toss paper from his desk (inside his office) onto her desk (again inside her own office)... diagonally across a hall from one desk to another. My question I suppose is how small are their offices and the hall space??? This was the big one, but there were a few other instances where I couldn't always picture what was being described.

Characters, for me, make or break a story. I can ignore so, so much if I like the characters. The characters weren't super endearing to me. There isn't anything wrong with them at first glance and I see how people might like them. In fact, I was really beginning to like Tate and Emmie was warming up to me. They just make such horrible decisions that it makes it hard to continue liking them. They have cute banter and good chemistry, eventually. Although their personalities, or at least some of the things they say, they don't actually do. 

I think the focus of my dislike of this title, comes to the ending. See, I was a bit confused as to where this book was headed – what would the drama or conflict be? what was the book leading towards? Because I'm used to the conflict or at least some kind of problem being present for most of the book, but here I didn't find anything to question. I think my waiting for the conflict or figuring out what this book would lead to, was making me bored... because I felt like I was waiting.
The end though... first off I'm so over High School Reunions– why do people think they are such a big deal? Why are they even a thing? Let's move on from our past, please. Without giving spoilers, decisions are made by both characters that are quite shitty. That Tate didn't prepare her or warn her is messed up (especially since he... well, there is confusion). THEN, her reaction– the only thing she can think of to do, blew me for a crazy loop. This happens at 82% into the book and let me tell you, I was so close to DNFing the book. So, so close and I almost regret finishing it. 

So, no I did not like this book. But it is a quick and easy read. This is one someone might like as a beach read or if they just aren't looking into as deeply as I did.

This book has been on my tbr for so long so I decided to pick it up finally and give it a go.

It was a cute and fun read. I enjoyed the chemistry between Emmie and Tate. They had so many cute moments that made me feel giddy.

It did bother me that they claimed to hate one another until they kissed once and suddenly they were crazy for one another. I think that's due to my annoyance that comes with books labeled as enemies to lovers when it's only that for the first few chapters.

I loved that this book showed the obstacles that follow women working in male dominant workplaces, especially surrounding workplace harassment or the fact that women have to work ten times harder to try to get taken seriously in their field.

This wasn't my favourite book. I feel like perhaps this book wasn't for me and that's okay! I'm glad I gave it a try