I unknowingly chose to read a debut romance novel in Aggie the Horibble and Max the Pompous and as far as first-time written books go, this was okay. Aggie is a lowly-born, “wrong-side-of-the-tracks” gal trying to improve her lot in life, while Max is a silver-spoon-in-the-mouth, wealthy foil. Aggie did grow annoying with her self-doubt talk about being “from the wrong side of the tracks”, it was too over the top and I struggled to like her because of it. I also feel squicky about the office “romance”, especially when one of the character’s is a subordinate working directly under the boss. In this day and age it reads as sexual harassment and I cringed every time office lust was encouraged.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompus Ass • Lisa Wells
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While Max’s assistant is on maternity leave, his grandmother offers to step in. Well it doesn’t last long before she decides that being his assistant is too much and comes up with a plan, have Max hire her friends granddaughter Aggie, and if they fall in love that would make the two grandmothers overjoyed.
While both Aggie and Max both have their own plan to sabotage the interview they also don’t want to disappoint their own grandmothers, so they have no choice but to work with each other.
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Some parts I really enjoyed in this book but others I felt didn’t keep my attention.
The meddling grandmothers were great and so enjoyable! Aggie while some aspects of her I did enjoy like her no filter and sense of humour, I found her semi relatable in the fact that she wants to find a job she loves but I didn’t like how she was basically living off her grandmother who is working 3 jobs to stay afloat.
Max I enjoyed as a character, he did seem a little stiff in the beginning but softened quickly. The banter between the two was really enjoyable!
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However there were some aspects of the storyline that were introduced and never really talked about but then brought up later on that I would have liked to see how they came about. Also sometimes when both Max and Aggie are together with their grandmothers it can get confusing. I wish there would have been more use of the names instead of just the term grandma, when both were present.
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Thank you to @NetGalley for the eArc in exchange for an honest review. #AggietheHorriblevsMaxthePompousAss #NetGalley

This was a quick read romance that I liked, but I just couldn’t warm up to one of the main characters.
Max is an entrepreneur who’s assistant is on leave. His grandmother and her friend Meemaw come up with a matchmaking scheme to get him to hire Meemaw’s granddaughter Aggie.

Max was a decent character, he didn’t want to hire or like Aggie, but was won over by her personality and ideas. However, Aggie frustrated me. Her Meemaw works 3 jobs, and Aggie has had over 100 jobs in 18 months that she quits when they don’t make her happy. She wants to find her bliss. She’s hung up on growing up in poverty and jumps to conclusions about how she’ll be treated. She has a chip on her shoulder that gets in the way of the character.

The writing was good, but the chemistry between the two felt a little forced to me. 3 stars.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own

I’m a bit torn on Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass. There were parts of this story that I absolutely adored, namely the matchmaking grandmothers. And other parts where I really wanted to give up on Aggie or Max ever finding a way to that expected happy ending. Of course, there were outside influences involved here as well, mainly Max’s father (oh, if only I could have reached into the book to tell that jerk what I thought of him).

In all, this story was good, I’m certain there is an audience that will love it – but I was just okay with this story because I couldn’t really like either main character. I need to at least like a character, need to want to see a change or something good come out of their actions within the story.

Most of what you really need to know before picking up Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass can be found in the cover description. The story that follows is full of likable characters trying to get two unlikable characters together for a job and perhaps for a lifetime. Aggie was so over the top, well, horrible to Max. I understood that part of her actions was intended to ensure that he’d fire her so they didn’t have to work together, but there were times when I felt she crossed a line. Max, well, he needed to cut daddy dearest loose and become his own man, in my opinion. Through misunderstandings, both naturally occurring and on purpose, Max and Aggie will eventually find their way to each other. It’s simply an… interesting journey to get to that point.

This was a 3.5 star read for me, I’ll round up at the appropriate locations.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

The battle of the grandmothers lol. This is an enemies to lovers book and it was a really easy read. The characters were not pretentious and the storyline was well-fleshed out.

Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This story is fun! And very spicy!! This is an open door romance with a ton of sexual innuendos. Aggie and Max definitely have chemistry right from the beginning, and I loved how the story was told from both their perspectives.

I felt many of the scenarios weren’t very realistic, but it didn’t take away from the story for me.

The meddling grandmothers are just too cute! And two thumbs up for having adults in a romcom who actually communicate their feelings (for the most part)!

If you’re looking for a quick read that is fun and sexy, this book is for you!

Had a hard time with this one. Wasn't a great fan of either characters and just couldn't really get into it. I didn't finish it

No, just did not enjoyed this one. I just couldn't connect with our heroine, so the book was a no go for me.... 2.5 stars.

I had a hard time reading this story. I did not like Aggie at all and she did not deserve a good guy like Max.

"Aggie Johansson is a lot of things, but a nobody isn't one of them. She's funny. She's energetic. She's a force that will turn your word upside-down and make you glad for it. She's not an invisible nobody"

Title: Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass
Author: Lisa Wells
Type: Standalone
Genres: Adult, Romance, Work Romance, Enemies to Lovers

If you are a fan of enemies to lovers romance this will be right up your alley. I had so much fun reading this book. I do feel that it is not 100% a real enemies to lovers romance but more an "I want to be your enemy but I am failing at it" type of romance. Aggie and Max's chemistry is evident in all the short and sweet scenes that lead up to a big climax. The story is a little slow burn and we get all the tension before anything really happens between our main characters, and I really enjoyed the way Lisa Wells built this sense of dread and necessity.

Aggie has been in and out of jobs for a while now and her grandma has decided that she needs to get her life together hence her grandmother's best friend basically pushes her to her grandson's company. In order to please both parties, Aggie and Max decide to work for each other but not before they try really hard to make each other undesirable. When this doesn't work out they start a good work relationship filled with sexual tension as they both seem to want more than they can have. Workplace romances are a hit or miss for me, and I found that this book was a definitive hit.

The story is cliche enough that it markets well, but it has the correct amount of unique events and quirks in the characters that separate them from any other work place and enemies to lovers romance. I found myself enjoying both Max and Aggie and related to their inner dilemmas.

* I received this eArc from Netgalley and Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review *

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⫷ The ARC copy of this book was provided by NetGalley and Entangled Publishing in exchange of an honest review ⫸

DNF at 25%

Max + Aggie

✔ Matchmaking grandmas
✔ Office Romance

This book was kinda hard to get into but I didn't really mind. I started reading anyway. But then something made me totally halt and I just stopped reading. While I loved those not-so-sneaky grandmas, I hated Aggie. Max? I have no opinion about him. At the beginning, I thought Aggie was hilarious and I'm gonna love her weirdness. However, her behavior pissed me off. She behaved like she owned this world. News flash. She didn't. I don't get the fact. Didn't she feel any remorse that she's living on her grandma's money because she couldn't stay in one job? And she had the nerve to try to sabotage her new job interview because she felt it was a handout? wow. And then, there's an incident when Max specifically told her not to touch the rocks but she did it anyway and it turned into Max almost losing them. WTF? I would've punched her if it was me. Consequences be damned. It's not over there. She tried to manipulate Max so that he wouldn't fire her with his grandma's death. WTF?
<"Because I am part of the birthday gift you gave Ms. Grace for her birthday. Who knows how many more birthdays she'll celebrate?'
He paled. "Don't say something like that.">
I had to double take here to see if I actually read correctly. How could I want a happy ending for a woman like her? I mean seriously? Who said stuff like this to someone when she knew how much his grandma meant to him? Just the other day Max actually defended her in front of his father. And then she demanded to know about the rocks.🙄
Max? He seemed to be the doormat in this book. And had daddy issues. Honestly, I'm getting sick of this trope.

I'm done with this book. Ugh! I really wanted to read this. Btw, the writing was a bit sloppy as well. At least, in those 25% I read. Dunno about the rest of the book.

The hilarious title of this book starts the story off with me laughing and I continued to until the end. The main characters are exact opposites and their dealings to avoid working together were just too funny. It was a quick and refreshing rom-com with two mischievous grandmothers trying to match their grandchildren together. This is a perfect book if you are looking for something light and hilarious. It kept me laughing the entire time and was very memorable.

When I read the description, I was intrigued. The title alone caught my eye.

Reading the book did not quite deliver the experience I was hoping to have.

Parts of it were delightful and had you eager to read more. Occasionally, I had to stiffle a snort from something that was funny enough to laugh out loud.

But then you'd hit a chapter that didn't seem to add to the overall flow of the book.
Unless you like a little clever banter before the sex scenes.
I don't mind having some steam in my read. But those chapters just didn't vibe as well with the more light-hearted banter from earlier chapters.
Then there is the "how many times can Aggie screw up and Max not say it is all over?"

Not a horrid book, but also not the best.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the digital advance reader copy.

Overall I really enjoyed this book. I like the humor and the teasing interaction between Aggie and Max. The grandmothers were fun in this book. One of the things I didn't particularly like was the fact that Aggie seemed incredibly stuck on her past. I realize a lot of people are but in this story she was almost bitter about it and really let it color her relationship instead of trying to hard to move forward and possibly acknowledge her past as some things not to repeat but at times I feel she is trying to blame Max because she grew up poor. Again, overall, I liked the story and I did like the ending to this book.

A great read.
Max is forced by his grandmother to give Aggie a job. He doesn't want to , and she doesn't want the job, but takes it to keep her grandmother happy.
They both do their best to annoy the other so much that they back down, but despite their best efforts to hate each other end up falling for each other.

A great read.

Coco Chanel famously said “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.” And,“It is always better to be underdressed.”
‘Aggie the Horrible vs Max the Pompous Ass’layered every possible trope and character arc and left the house with a Mister T level of jewelry on.
It is horrendously overdressed.
Obviously, I read romance as an escape and I’m not expecting a slavish devotion to realism but everything in this book made me want to howl. Not in the good way
Office romance is not necessarily a favourite trope of mine, and I especially loathe the boss/assistant power dynamic implications, especially when an author makes the assistant (usually female) a back-talking, game-playing, do-as-I-please person who uses their sexuality as a weapon. As if that balances things out.
The mains are each packing a tractor-trailer load of issues - like, ALL of the issues and it goes on for 46 chapters plus an epilogue.
I couldn’t relate to any of the characters and I didn’t find any of their motivations or choices believable.
Aggie screws up so colossally and Max’s response? “Oh, wow. I’ve been in love with her this whole time.”
I hate leaving reviews like this because writing a book and putting it out there is such a seriously amazing achievement.

Thank you to Entangled and NetGalley for providing a copy in exchange for my honest review.

I really struggled to read this book. I do not believe it was an issue with the book itself, as I began reading it I was unable to take an interest. This further lead to me not finishing the book due to disinterest. Of what I read, the writing was very good. However, I just did not enjoy the story.

This was a cute read. Aggie and Max seem as opposite as they come but as the story continues you see that it’s all an act. I really liked the banter between them and laughed quite a few times. It was a slow burn and I think it would have gone faster if they knew how to communicate with each other. I also needed more Grandma moments, those two plotting women cracked me up.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass by Lisa Wells is about entrepreneur Max and his temporary assistant Aggie. Their grandmas are best friends and conspire to get their grandchildren together by making Max hire Aggie. I had a hard time getting into the book and I felt there was too much irrelevant detail. I was expecting cute office rivals turned lovers but unfortunately, I didn’t connect to the characters or the story. There were too many misunderstandings and miscommunications to keep track of. I thought the premise of the book was fun and I liked the idea.

Of course, this title draws some attraction and also the blurb was very promising And in all, it wasn't a very bad story. But maybe it just was a little too much drawn out. So the story kinda lost momentum and became a little boring. So, if the story was a bit more compact and a little more fast paced, I would increase my rating. The banter between Agnes and Max is hilarious though. So, if you have some time on your hands and you are in for a fun story, check this one out. Three out of five stars from me and a special thank you to Netgalley for providing the arc.