In this steamy, work-place romance, we are given two hard-working individuals who have different views of what they focus their priorities on. Micah is a head-strong, independent woman who is working on herself and is an auditor. Aiden is an English professor who is passionate about his job despite the hurdles he had to deal with to get there. The two of them do not end up on the right foot when they meet due to work place circumstances. And unbeknownst to them, they have already befriended each other via fan fiction app.

It is an “enemies to lovers” type story but I honestly had a hard time truly believing the issues they carried with one another after the first time they met. I think they had valid reasons to feel the way they did but it continued to just be.. weird. Aiden’s annoying need to push his excuses on other people was ridiculous, I can understand Micah willing to put it aside for the fact that he gave good head—but girl GET UP!! Some of the spicy scenes were decent and it was overall okay. It was an easy read but nothing memorable.

I was extremely excited to pick up this book as someone who has an English degree and loves fanfiction. I think that this book could benefit from a once over with a fine tooth comb to remove the prevalent repition, e.g., "'Wait what about the tenured faculty? Will we be part of the cuts too?' one of the tenured professors asks." In this instance, when the professor speaking said "we" in reference to the tenured faculty, I did not need the word to be repeated more than once, or in the case of the "unicorn steak", the fact that it was mentioned as an option in the paragraph above took away the humor of his answer in my opinion. There were also more than a few times in which it felt like the book was spoon-feeding the reader a bit, e.g., "your retention rate, how many students drop your classes," implying that the reader lacks an understanding of what a retention rate is.

I also think as someone who loves classic literature, it did rub me the wrong way the way that Aidan responded to comments like "If they let us read this kind of stuff in school, I wouldn't have skipped out on my English lit class so much LOL". Upon reading that he feels a "burst of pride" which feels insane to me as an English professor, especially one who teaches Shakespeare for God's sake. I understand completely the disdain that he might have for professors or even students who think that Romance as a genre is lesser, but I think allowing the inverse is egregious.

The rest of the book was fine, but I have a really hard time reading a book, especially a romance, where I find one of the main characters unlikeable.

I would read future works by this author.