With his perfectly-ironed shirts – a different colour for each day of the week – meticulously organised desk, and direct and harsh mannerisms that have made the rest of the office terrified of him, Joshua is the complete opposite to Lucinda with her retro dresses, coloured heels, red lipstick and unruly curly hair. With their own area to share outside of the two offices, Joshua and Lucinda have racked up the most HR complaints of the whole organisation: they hate each other. Joshua the Assistant to the CEO for Mr Bexley, and Lucinda the Assistant to the CEO for Helene. Predictably, neither was willing to yield on their assistants either, so both were kept on. Unable to settle on a new CEO for Bexley & Gamin, Mr Bexley and Helene Pascal – the CEO for Gamin – are left no choice but to co-CEO alongside each other, separate offices shielding their potent resentment. But there’s one rivalry to overshadow them all. Naturally, the office is divided: each individual is easily distinguishable as either Bexley or Gamin just by looking at them, and both sides loathe the other. When two juxtaposing publishing houses find themselves struggling, relenting eventually to a desperate merger to avoid collapse on both sides, the formal and impersonal culture of Bexley Books with their unsmiling faces, crisp suits, and emphasis on numbers and facts finds itself mercilessly thrown together with the friendly, laid-back and literary-focused attitudes of Gamin Publishing. While I did cringe heavily throughout (as predicted), I did actually end up enjoying it! The Plot… Of course, from the front and the title, I could pretty much guarantee the main storyline would centre around a love interest, but I still wanted to give it a go.
I picked it up because I’d read quite a lot of positive reviews about it. But I’m more into the thriller/crime genre now, and if I do ever venture into a romantic context, there needs to be other sub-plots so I can have breaks from cringing. I still have my rather beaten up editions in my cupboard and in the front they say “ Christmas 2010”… So, clearly 12-year-old me was into it. In fact, I don’t think I’ve read a full on romance since I was teenager and hopelessly obsessed with Divergent, the Mortal Instruments, the Gallagher Girls series, and – of course – Twilight, which I honestly read about 20 times.
Let’s be clear, I tend to avoid romance novels.
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