Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review

I actually quite enjoyed this. For the most part, it was amusing and entertaining.

Though I did cringe at some of the sentences.
Here is a list to name a few:
"She was cheekier than a Kardashian's ass."
"Lucky her. those jeans were singing the chorus to 'sexy and I know it.'"
"She eyed him like a banana she couldn't wait to eat."

I also was not a huge fan of how the protagonist, Aggie, kept assuming the worst of everyone by believing they were looking down on her for her socioeconomic status. She did this A LOT.

But regardless, I found this to be a pretty decent book.

I'm not entirely sure why I finished this book. It started off strong with a tiny bit of misogyny but I wasn't entirely sure how the author intended for it to come across so I stuck it out.

The characters weren't great. Aggie had a GIANT chip on her shoulder about growing up poor and the disparity between herself and the rich. Max was an alpha-hole on steroids. Also, Grant was only mentioned as a reason to get some things/ideas across to Max. Like honestly the only friends in the book were their grandmothers.

There was honestly just so much going on here, the plot with the mom, the insta-love, lust, the clients. The plot with the mom was just wild-- like there were so many things I felt were unaddressed in the end?? Idk just all over the place.

The plot moved so quickly on some things but dragged others out. I just did not enjoy it really. There were quite a few times I wanted to stop but I think I was just intrigued to see how it would end?

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to review! All thoughts are my own.


Review will be posted to my instagram before its publishing day July 19th.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This was a super fun read!! Aggie and Max were great big personalities on the opposites which made for epic banter & hot hot chemistry!! I loved everything from the matchmaking grandmas, to the enemies to lovers storyline.

This story fell flat for me, unfortunately. The premise sounded good and I excepted a funny and flirty office romance with a bit of traditional not friends-but getting there-to lovers (so this is not rivals- or enemies to lovers) but in the end it all just felt bland and nothing too special really.

Aggie and Max are supposed to hate each other after that their grandmothers have schemed to have them work together, but it's more insta-lust than anything remotely like hate or dislike. However, they are well-written and Aggie is definitely not boring. She is the comic-relief of the book, sometimes a bit too much though, and I found myself smiling several times throughout the story.

The book was not my cup of tea, at least not now, because it had too many misunderstandings and miscommunication was the key to the disaster (and not just a few times and I absolutely hate the use of that to make things "interesting"). Add everything up and I didn't really have any interest in the characters or the story as I had hoped.

If there's one thing I love in a romance it's to see two characters have such a mutual dislike of each other, but with obvious sexual tension. I love to see it build up, break and have the characters try to deny it and themselves. Sometimes when side characters (like grandmas) are involved it takes a bit of the shine away. This storyline did seem to go on a little bit too much for me, I think the tory could have gone a bit further without too much of the same.
A fun read with good elements. Thank you yo netgalley, the publisher and the author for the arc in exchange for an honest review

This was a super fun read!! Aggie and Max were great big personalities on the opposite ends of the Enneagram spectrum which made for epic banter & hot hot chemistry!!

The story unfolds as their grandmothers collude in order to force Max to hire Aggie as his assistant in hopes that they will fall madly in love with each other immediately. Instead what happens is that Aggie & Max but heads from the beginning, their instant attraction notwithstanding. The story took lots of fun turns and twists, it turned Max into the absolute worst most pompous boss ever and Aggie gave as good as she got in most cases.

Highly recommend to anybody who loves a good workplace romance/enemies to lovers Romance/Romance.

Mein Leseerlebnis

Meine Erfahrungen mit dem Buch lassen sich schwer unter einen Hut bringen. Auf der einen Seite mochte ich den lockeren und flotten Schreibstil der Autorin sehr. Auch fand ich die Grundidee der Geschichte spannend, genoss es mehr über die Hauptcharaktere zu erfahren und musste bei so mancher Szene schmunzeln oder sogar richtig lachen.

Allerdings fand ich ein paar Dinge in der Geschichte so unglaubwürdig und übertrieben (alles rund um Aggies Job und wie sie an ihn kam), dass ich Probleme hatte mich voll auf die Geschehnisse einzulassen. Immer mal wieder haben mich Details aus meinem Lesefluss gebracht. Auch konnte mich die Liebesgeschichte emotional nur mäßig berühren.

Nehme ich das zusammen, so lande ich bei einer Bewertung irgendwo in der Mitte meiner Skala. Ich fand das Buch nicht schlecht, aber leider auch nicht komplett überzeugend.

🖤🖤3/4

Für wen?

Wer flotte Liebesromane mag, in denen alles ein wenig übertrieben dargestellt wird und die Ausgangslage eigentlich keinen Sinn macht, könnte mit dem Buch so seinen Spaß haben.

I really enjoyed this book! Every aspect of it was throughly enjoyable, and written in an easy-to-read way! From the matchmaking grandmas, to the enemies to lovers storyline, what's not to love?

As a fan of enemies to lovers storylines, this one really hit the spot, the hatred between the pair was believable and borderline hilarious to witness! The pair couldn't be more different from one another and I think Lisa Wells has written them perfectly, there are numerous aspects of the story that could be considered as flawed, but the characterisation is definitely not one of them! Both Aggie and Max play their roles in the story amazingly and Wells really makes their character's differences work.

Overall this was an enjoyable, quick read!

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

This was a fun read. The leads are hilarious. The premise is what caught my eye and it delivered. I laughed so many times throughout this book. Anyone looking for a funny, steamy romance with meddling grandmothers, this should float your boat.

“Wrong side of the tracks" vs “Born with a silver spoon”

I absolutely loved this book and read it in one sitting! An entertaining enemies to lovers romance about not being shallow.

Not only are Aggie and Max both fun characters but their meddling grannies make this book that much more comical. Aggie is a free-spirit with no filter and Max is a stiff pompous ass.

I'd recommend this one to anyone looking for a good laugh.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing, Lisa Wells and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Aggie comes from the wrong side of the tracks, has had a hard time staying at a job for any length of time, and is a free spirit. Max is a perfectionist, has his own business, and comes from money. They are as opposite as can be.

Their grandmothers, however, are two peas in a pod, and when the two of them decide that Aggie would be the perfect job candidate for Max’s personal assistant, everything goes a little haywire.

Aggie doesn’t want to disappoint her Meemaw, so she goes to her interview dressed inappropriately, and acts even more inappropriately. Max can’t get out of the favor he has promised his Grandmother, so he tried to make Aggie turn down the job by making her fill out a ridiculously lengthy personality quiz in an overheated room, and tried to make the job duties incredibly outlandish.

A witty enemies to lovers romance with incredible banter, lovable supporting characters in their respective grandmothers, and many lessons about judging others from different walks of life!

Thank you to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A fun and easy summer read. If you like quick and witty banter, pick this one up. Aggie and Max, trying to work together for 2 months, have totally different views on things. Throw in meddling grandmothers and the fun gets to a new level. At times skimmable, as it could have been shortened a bit, but overall I enjoyed this one. A few touches of sad story lines, but overall fun and light. Would recommend.

A Reformer and an Enthusiast. Meddling Grannies. And a one-in-a-lifetime bid.

You know, I've been reading a lot of romance lately, and oftentimes when you run into the "Enemies turned Lovers" trope, it's hard to believe that these two people who HATED each other three hundred pages ago are now deeply and irrevocably in love - but with Max & Aggie, I'm tempted to believe it!

After being forced to work together (in a very small space mind you) by their grandmothers, Aggie & Max constantly butt heads. Aggie is a free-spirit who is determined to not settle for a job that is anything less than her dream. Max is hard-headed & set in his routine - he has put in A LOT of work to get where he is & away from his silver spoon childhood, and he's not about to let an Enneagram 7 ruin that for him.

But as the two work together and learn that there's more than meets the eye (how cliche right?), they discover they actually have a lot more in common than they originally thought! While Aggie is a drifter, she is also VASTLY determined when she discovers something that is important to her. And while Max is driven and creative, he needs Aggie to see all of the possibilities a project could be.

I will say, one thing that aggravated me about these two was that they were both WAY too stuck in their own heads! Instead of TALKING to each other, many times they ran forward with their assumptions about the other & would take seventeen steps back in their new & precarious relationship. Aggie has a chip on her shoulder about being poor growing up, and she thinks that EVERYONE she meets can see it written all over her face that she didn't come from money. Max is stuck in the idea that Aggie is flighty & can't hold a job, so every time she steps even a little bit out of line or seems to make a decision differently than he would, he flips out!

HOWEVER, while it was irritating to see the two of them continue to backpedal in their relationship every time there was a misunderstanding, it made their reconciliations & deep conversations that much more gratifying to the reader (& I would presume to the characters).

Definitely enjoyed this book!

Which, if you doubt me, I finished it in less than 24 hours. So there's that.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous, a rom-com by Lisa Wells, is, for the most part flirty and fun.

In the past year Aggie Johanssen (disregard the name in the blurb as it’s not the same as in the book) has been through more jobs than can be imagined, which makes her Meemaw worry about her. Her Meemaw arranges for her to get an interview with Max Treadwell, who buys and flips properties. Max recognizes that his own grandmother and Aggie’s are up to something, but he agrees to give Aggie an interview to be his temporary assistant until his permanent one returns from maternity leave. He just doesn’t promise to his grandmother that the interview alone won’t make Aggie go screaming out of the building.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous has a lot of promise and manages to come through on a lot of it. Aggie and Max are both fun characters, although Aggie’s obsession with the fact that she comes from the wrong side of the tracks gets old really quickly merely from the fact that it’s mentioned so very often. Her lack of self-esteem, which is sometimes at odds with her confident sauciness, makes her question things that should be self-evident if she thought about them. And, actually that’s one of the bothersome things here because Aggie is smart. A person is not going to offer you a job if they’re just intent on getting rid of you. That doesn’t make sense.

Regardless, I let those things go (evidently mostly) because Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous did prove to be fun escapist fare. And I let it the little things that didn’t make sense go until the end. I expected a grand gesture but the end fizzled out like a dud firework. But even worse than the fizzling was that sex was pretty much being used as the apology, which is wrong on so many levels after they parted the way they did. Wrong. Just wrong. I thought it demeaning that anyone would think that insulting words and bad behavior could be dismissed by sex–even in a long term relationship that might be pushing it.

Up until the ending, this was a pretty solid, above-average read. The question is: how much emphasis do we put on the end in a rom-com? At the very least, we should come away feeling happy and even the epilogue didn’t get me there. For that reason, that ending dropped a solid point from this rating. Maybe others won’t mind the ending as much as I did.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass was a funny, sweet and sexy book. I really enjoyed Aggie’s character, she was feisty and bold and charming, such a peach! I liked how she and Max interacted, how someone so buttoned up as Max had to know deal with the adventurous and wild Aggie. The premise for the story was great, as where the meddling grandmothers, and the sexy times where quite steamy indeed. Overall a fun read that had happy, hilarious and sad moments all mixed together.

This book follows the Aggie, a woman from the "wrong side of the tracks" and Max, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, as they are forced together due to the meddling of their two grandmothers. This book takes place in Kansas City and Aggie & her grandmother lay the Southern Charm™ on thick. Neither Max nor Aggie want to be set up by their grandmothers, but both wish to please & honor them, so they go along with the scheming while trying to pull their own punches. The book quickly goes from Max and Aggie hating each other to them liking each other (while still saying they hate each other), with talk of like-like and jealousy. This would be what I consider an enemies to lovers story, but it isn't so clearly delineated as others you might read with this troupe.

Spoilers below in terms of pros/cons:

Pros: They feel like real people with real problems. Aggie has a lot of baggage and familial issues that lead her to act irrationally. Max comes from a very privileged background and therefore has a hard time seeing outside of his bubble at times. The way they eventually fall for each other doesn't happen in a lightening strike moment which is more realistic in my opinion.

Cons: This is probably a personal thing, but I really couldn't deal with some of the bullheadedness that Aggie and Max had. I know both of them have baggage and were protecting their hearts, but they both were making things worse for themselves by not communicating like adults and just acting without thinking. They were constantly quick to provoke one another, yet were very slow to try and work through anything.

Overall, this was an easy read that I did enjoy, and I would give it a 3.5/4 out of 5. Pick it up if you want a nice weekend enemies to lovers.

This book reminded me of one of my favorite rom-com books: The Hating Game. I liked the dialogue between the two main characters. But most of all I liked the free spirit Aggie and I liked that how her relationship with Max developed. This is a great summer read and adds it to your reading list.

A sexy funny story about two single who get to work together for 2 months and try to resist their feelings . Their grandmothers were amazing characters . It had some very funny moments but also some very sad that made me cry .
I received this novel from net galley and the publisher as an ARC. Thank you! All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I'm a huge fan of romance and when this book came out on NetGalley I was intrigued by its Synopsys and the beautiful cover. So thank you for granting me the privilege of a copy.

Now, let's talk about the book.
I believe this is a debut novel for Lisa Wells and I must say is not as bad as some debut novels are, is not perfect (what book is, anyway) but is not awful either, so I give it 3 stars.

It's longer than I would have expected from a romance, but it's easy to read and it comes to an end pretty quickly.

The story revolves around Agnes and Maxwell who couldn't be more different from each other, Agnes (Aggie) lives on the poor and wrong side of the railroad in Kansas City (like...literally) with her grandmother, she graduated bottom of her class from college, and can't keep a job, Maxwell (Max, or Maxi for his Granny) is rich, well educated and a little bit snob.
The two meet because their respective grandmothers are good friends and love to play matchmaking, since Agnes needs a job and Max of a new assistant, two and two together!

The premisiss are good, but unfortunatelly are not very well executed.
I loved the general idea but I've found the plot a little bit too crowded and sometimes a little messy, this should have been an "enemies to lover" but I've read a lot about lovers and a little of the enemies part.
Max and Aggie like each other from chapter 2 and start to flirt, I thought it was way too soon, let them fight and hate each other, everything else can develop throughout the rest of the book.
I also think the way Agnes flirts is a little too racy and Max gets aroused way too quickly (he just looks at her and BOOM!).

There's also too much drama, the relashionship between Max and his father, the main chatracters background, the main characters present, Aggie's mother...too much on the plate.

Some events are not credible (such as the fact that Agnes manages to paint a whole office by herself, in hal a day), but hey, if those are the circumstances given by the author one has to believe them...so I just let it go.

Moreover, I think that the use of "Grandmother", "Father" " Son" and "Memaw" is a little bit too much, it's heavy to read and sometimes unnecessary (there are parts where a simple narrator voice would have done the job), I believe is custom of some parts of the US, but international readers cannot really relate to that (🙋🏻‍♀️).

The ending it's fun and looks like a movie ending, even though I'd have cut the spicy scene in the last chapter 😂 (fun but not that romantic). The Epilogue is a very nice closure though.

Now, let's talk about what I actually liked: The characters.
I think Agnes and Max are very well written, they have their own personality and have a reason to be that way (finally, I've read too many books with dull and plain characters lately).
Also, Maxwell is such a good name, great choice.

Their arc is also well written, they both try to hide the best part of themselves that comes out at the end.
The reasons why the characters behave the way they do and have the personalities they have, is much more profound than one would expect and the author explains it masterfully (they both have a painful background).

My favorite was Aggie, the best quote of the book? Hold the rocks, leave the bottle. SO FUN!
She's a force of nature and is very fun to read, maybe she could flirt in a more subtle way but she's still the "comic relief" of this book.
The grandmothers are awesome and so sweet, just as I thought a Midwestern granny would be.
Such peaches (to quote Aggie again).

So, as I said, the plot is a little bit messy and too crowded, but the characters writing balance that pretty well.
To be a debut novel I wasn't that disappointed and I hope Lisa Wells will come out with another book, her characters are truly unique and fun.

I'll follow up with a similar and more reader-friendly review on GoodReads.

Thanks for giving me this opportunity, please keep on writing great charachters.

Thank you NetGalley, Entangled Publishing and Author for this advance ebook copy!

This book was so excellent. like the blurb says, its about a lady Aggie, who shows up for an interview and she totally didn't expect to see entrepreneur Max. So now she has one goal in in mind..... To not get offered this job! Her grandmothers who are trying to play matchmaker will be disappointed because they pressured Max into hiring her. She wants nothing to do with this pity job.....

The last thing Max wants to do is give the job to Aggie. The woman is who is annoying and lets not mention how many other jobs she's has already been through! But he might have promised grandmother he would hire her. So hopefully she won't take it..... It won't be his fault... Right?
His company is is roaring and the last thing he needs is some one to screw it all up as a person assistant!

Obviously they want to disappoint their grandmother's so they find themselves stuck working together.
Aggie's only option is to be that worst assistant ever!
Max can just wait till she quits.... How hard van this be?

But no one could have ever seen what happens next!!!
Read to find out!


The writing was great, easy to read and fast paced. The characters are the best thing in this book.
I seriously couldn't have enjoyed a better romance novel!
This was seriously great, I enjoyed the way these two characters carried on, the banter was hilarious.

You'll just have to read this awesome romance!

Thank you again for this advance ebook copy!
I'll post to my Goodreads and Bookstagram account closer to pub date!.