I ADORED this book. I, like so many others, love Nisha’s romantasy novels, but I think that she may have just outdone herself with this contemporary romance.

The book follows Tris and her work rival, Rafe. They’ve been in competition since she started at the company and they cannot stand each other. Or can they?

A tropical setting, some well placed tension, and some delicious desserts make up this brilliant rivals-to-romance story. I adored Tris, and even Rafe, from the very beginning. I was HOOKED. I think this is the fastest I’ve ever finished a romance in my life.

I can’t wait to see what else Nisha releases, and a HUGE thank you to both her and her publisher for the opportunity to read this a little early as an arc 🩷

I really enjoyed this book, the SLOW burn was everything. The way these two wanted each other, too bad Tris has a rule of not dating anyone she works with. These two go on a work trip, unfortunately there was a mixup and they end up in the same room. There’s also only ONE bed 🤭 I really loved Tris, she’s had a rough time with dating in the past. She so badly tries to deny her feelings for Rafe, but these two are meant to be 🥰

Thank you Forever Publishing for the ARC!

“I love the way you charge through life as though you don’t give a shit what anyone thinks.”

Not Safe for Work at its core is an ode to every woman in STEM that has had to prove themselves twice as much as their male counterparts. As a woman in STEM I see so much of myself in Tris. I love her strength and tenacity to prove herself amongst the men that dominate her world, even if it’s just to say fuck you to the hand that’s dealt to her. The dynamic between Tris and Rafe is absolutely amazing. I love the coworker enemies to lovers trope and the two of them perfectly embody it. Once they come together Rafe’s support of Tris is something I can only dream of. I especially loved the migraine scenes since I am a migraine sufferer myself and wish I had someone like him to support me through it. Not Safe For Work is going to be a book I come back to all the time to binge read until four am.

4.5 stars *** rounded up

I loved this. Rafe is literally goals. I was swooningggg. I loved their dynamic and their BANTER. OMG. They like did not hold back at all.

My only issue was the pacing in the last 30% - I loved the slow burn but then it felt overloaded with spice in those last few chapters.

Thank you @netgalley and @readforeverpub for this eARC!

This was a 4 ⭐️ but I will be honest that I didn’t quite connect with the characters.

I enjoyed getting to know Tris and Rafe! Their banter and chemistry was so good!

Tris is so strong and resilient and this book narrates exactly how the corporate world treats women. I know that lots of women go through what Tris went through, and my God..

Rafe is so passionate and funny. I loved learning more about him and finding out that he’s not like every other guy and there’s more to him than what he lets on.

Lots of healing and learning in this book. I recommend it!

• Work place romance
• Nemesis to lovers

And this book is out TODAY, May 20!

I absolutely ADORED this book, it was witty, and heartfelt, and poignant, all while having the most delicious romantic slowburn. Trishara and Rafe have such a beautiful love story and I loved collecting smiles alongside them! Nisha J. Tuli crafted such a whirlwind romance that once you start reading I promise you will not be able to put it down. The perfect summer romance that I am sure is best enjoyed by a body of water with a drink in hand.

Tris was one of the funniest people I have ever read, her inner monologue was always spot on and I was laughing out loud at multiple points. I was also cheering her on the entire time as she faced the sexism and patriarchy of the stem world head on! She is such a great example for all women and I know I could stand to gain if I channeled a little more of her into my life! The queen of confidence and knowing her worth, even if she had lost her way for a little bit there!

Rafe was such a pleasant surprise, I expected broody grump but was met with such a deeper character full of interesting facets! I loved his growth and watching him come out of his shell so much!

These two have a love story for the ages and I was truly grinning ear to ear by the end of this book just so happy seeing Tris and Rafe get their happily ever after! Cannot recommend this enough, a rom com with so much heart and characters you can’t help falling for!

Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli
Pub Date: 5/20/25
Format: ebook/audio hybrid
Rating: 4.5 stars!

Oooooh this is a slow burn for the corporate girlies who are so sick of men's bullshit in the workplace, but still love a nice rolled sleeve/forearm moment. This is not only a romantic comedy where our FMC Trishara is a woman of color in the corporate world - but also a woman of color working in STEM! Oof. I felt like the office dynamics were captured SO well before the setting of this book moved to the resort/trip part of her journey that I didn't even want to root for Rafe at first. I just wanted her to get out immediately and burn the place to the ground.

....However, I guess I'm glad she didn't because this book was so fun! We have forced proximity, rivals to lovers, the one bed trope, and that excellent banter that we have come to love and expect from Tuli! Were moments of this a bit unbelievable? Yes. Did I mind? Absolutely not. I was too invested in their shenanigans to really try to root certain pieces in reality.

The tension in this romantic comedy is delicious and narrator Soneela Nankani really made the audiobook deliver! It had vibes of an old school romcom movie and just absolutely adored this contemporary romance from Tuli. I truly hope we get much more of this genre from her in the future!

4.5/5 stars
2/5 spice

Tropes:
Rivals to lovers
Workplace romance
Forced proximity
One Bed
Slow burn
Single POV

I really loved this debut novel for this author's foray into a new genre. The story was compelling, relatable, funny, and romantic. Both MCs were crushing from the start but of course, walls were built and hostility grew to keep each other at arms length. Rafe showed Tris respect despite needling her, it only took their forced cohabitation for Tris to see he wasn't the villain. Their character growth and mutual pining really made it easy for them to crumble those walls they had built... and I love seeing that trust grow. The slow burn had just the right amount of angst and was totally worth it.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. Please pay attention to the trigger and content warnings. Despite being a romcom there were a few heavy moments that could be triggering. But the way it was resolved was chefs kiss. I highly recommend this book for fans of workplace romance, enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, and diverse characters.

Thank you to Netgalley and Forever for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own and offered voluntarily.

Not Safe for Work is a fun only-one-bed contemporary romance where rival colleagues are both invited to a three week training program for their company in Maui. Tris is shocked to be picked after being passed over multiple times in favor of lesser male coworkers. During the three weeks she experiences racial micro aggressions, misogyny, and a company culture that should make every woman cringe. She also discovers a new side to her coworker, Rafe, and feelings that she has suppressed due to a prior horrible experience with workplace romance surface.
Overall, this was a fun read and it was great seeing Tris recognize her value and stop taking shit from a bunch of shitty men. And Rafe's secret talent...yes. This was exactly what we needed from him!

✨ Spicy Destination Rom-Com (Hawaii)
✨ Workplace Romance
✨ Rivals to Lovers
✨ Slow Burn
✨ One Bed
✨ Women in STEM
✨ Chronic Illness Rep (migraines)
⚠ Sexism and Racial Microaggressions

I can't believe this is Nisha J. Tuli's contemporary debut! I cackled and swooned throughout this book and completely ate it up! NSFW follows Trishara as she is granted one of two coveted branch spots at her engineering firm's Rising Stars Leadership Retreat in Hawaii. The other spot- given to her handsome and infuriating rival and boss's son, Rafe Gallagher. Tris has hopes that the Retreat is large enough for them to stay away from each other and actually enjoy their 3 weeks in Hawaii. One big issue - there's only one room booked for both of them and only one bed.

This is the perfect vacation read! It's backdrop is the beautiful island of Maui, has a comical and smart FMC, a handsome and misunderstood work rival MMC, and ALL THE BANTER! I cackled so many times! I absolutely adore Nisha's writing as she immediately transports you into her books. Trishara is a wickedly smart character who has a hilarious inner monologue, especially as it relates to Rafe. She has to overcome the uphill struggles to make in a STEM field only to be get knocked down again and again. This Retreat is a career game changer for her yet she has to be around her nemesis day in and day out, one who has a habit of not wearing a shirt and has forearms of a god. But as the saying goes, there's a fine line between hate and love. This is a definite slow burn romance but when it picks up (roughly 75% in), it's straight fire!

I also really appreciated that this book is about women in STEM jobs and the struggles that women in this career field have to go through. Nisha herself was an engineer and used her experiences as inspiration. Thank you Nisha for allowing us readers to get a glimpse of what that environment is like.

Thank you so much to Forever for the advanced copy!

4.25 Stars
Trishara and Rafe were wonderful MCs. Tris is brilliant, snarky and a complete badass. As a woman in STEM, she hasn’t had it easy so I loved that this didn’t shy away from showing the struggles women, especially women of color, face in male-dominated fields.
Rafe may be the boss’s son, and her nemesis, but she quickly finds out she was wrong about him. Turns out he’s sweet, protective and just downright swoon-worthy. I loved the way he looks out for her.
The tension and angst between these two was top-tier and their witty banter had me laughing out loud.

I enjoyed the corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii and the honeymoon suite mixup was absolutely delightful!
The rivals-to-lovers workplace romance, forced proximity and only one bed tropes all made this impossible to put down. And the romance? It may be a slow-burn but it’s extremely satisfying.

This was so much fun and I highly recommend picking it up if you love forced proximity rom-coms with a bit of drama and just the right amount of spice.

4.5⭐️

I loved the Artefacts of Ouranos series, so I was really excited to learn that Nisha was releasing her first contemporary romance. Not Safe for Work was such a fun, sexy summer romance and I had such a great time reading it! I love a good rivals-to-lovers romance and this one was amazing. You could really feel the tension between Tris and Rafe. I also really loved how this book explored the difficulties associated with being a woman, particularly a woman of colour, in a male dominated field. I was hooked from the beginning and I truly enjoyed every second of this story.

What to expect:
🌴 Romantic Comedy
🌺 Work Retreat in Hawaii
🌴 Rivals-to-Lovers
🌺 Only One Bed
🌴 Woman in STEM

Thank you to Nisha J. Tuli, Forever and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was such a fun read! Everyone needs to read this for the summer! Our two main characters are work rivals and are sent to a leadership training program for 3 weeks. They accidentally get booked to stay in the same room and now they have to be in eachother orbit. Rivals to lovers ✅ Slow burn ✅ banter ✅ funny ✅

This one had it all - enemies to lovers (tropical work retreat edition), forced proximity, one bed, slow burn. A fun cute summer read with a little spice. The tension between Tris and Rafe was 👌.

Thanks to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for a copy of this book.

I really wanted to love this book. I havent read anything else by the author but I know this was her debut into contemporary romance and her author books have received pretty high praise.

I love an enemies-to-lovers, workplace romance. While this had that, I couldn't stand the banter between the two. It felt like the FMC just hated the MMC for no reason and found the tiniest reason to be annoyed with him. I understand he got the role she wanted but it felt like she made him out to be this horrible person when I didn't get any background info to show why he was.

Honestly, the FMC just felt way too immature for me and as someone who is around the same age as her it is really hard to relate to her. I wanted to and I tried, because I'm also a POC in a male dominated field so I was hoping this would speak to me but if I didn't know ages or that this revolved around a workplace I would have believed she was in high school or college with that mindset.

This wont stop me from eventually giving the author's other books a try, this just didn't do it for me and my TBR and ARC lists are way too long to keep forcing myself to read something that I'm not interested in.

I made it 32% of the way. I received this e-ARC from NetGalley.

What stood out the most for me when reading this book is the FMC, Trishara (Trish). I appreciate Nisha writing a romcom with a FMC who is bold, hardworking, highly opinionated and goal oriented. Trish has confidence in her skills as an engineer and wasn’t afraid to speak up when she wasn’t being treated fairly. She is aware that as a BIPOC female working in a male dominated company, she was passed up for a promotion as a result of gender bias and nepotism as the boss' son Rafe is awarded the coveted role. When Trish and Rafe are selected to attend a corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii, Trish is willing to put aside her contempt for Rafe in order to impress the executives and give her career a boost.

The tension between Trish and Rafe was at an all time high with their sarcastic banter. Being forced to spend time together in a beautiful location such as Hawaii, soon their constant bickering turned into flirting. As someone who loves a workplace romance with an enemies to lovers trope, I ate this up.

Thank you Forever Grand Central Publishing for providing this ARC. All opinions expressed are my own.

✨ARC Review✨

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

“I’ll follow you anywhere, Tris.”

Whether it’s fantasy or romance, if it’s written by Nisha I know I’m going to love it. Her writing style pulls me in every single time and it wasn’t any different with this one! Not Safe For Work is a workplace romcom between rivals that’s full of tension, chaos, and witty banter.

✨Trishara is an engineer who has dealt with problems in the corporate field. She has been told she’s too loud or too bold. I was rooting for her the entire time. The last thing she wants is to work with her nemesis, Rafe. When they’re sent to an island, she finds it impossible to avoid him. She’s doesn’t know if she can trust him or not, but he makes it so hard for her to not see him as the villain in her story.

✨Rafe is the hot and broody rival engineer. He has a cold exterior and seems to want to charm everyone but Tris. He takes up the competition between them to a sizzling notch. While they’re nemesis, underneath it all he is a cinnamon roll for her. He was in fact down badddd.

✨If you love a relationship where you can tell that the line between hate and love is thin, then you will love Tris and Rafe. Most of the time I was trying to decide if she hated him or wanted him. The witty banter and games they played with each other field the tension and created a slow burn that did in fact burn.

Not Safe For Work has:
❤️Workplace romance
🌊 Travel to Maui
☀️ Slow burn
🌹 One bed
🐚 Forced proximity
🔥 Spice
📖 Women in STEM
💙BIPOC fmc

Ps, it’s out today!!

Pss, this story starts with an author note from Nisha, and she actually wrote this story with a lot of her personal experience in her early career.

Not Safe For Work is a workplace romance full of forced proximity, stem rep, banter, and delightful tropes like only one bed. This book is definitely the book of the summer. The setting is super tropical, I think it’s the perfect book to read on the beach or by the pool. It gave me all the summer vibes and I can’t wait to reread it soon.

I really loved Tris. She is very strong and knows what she wants. She doesn’t back down, and is unafraid to stand up for herself. I always love it when the FMCs have a backbone and use it.

I really loved the chemistry between her and Rafe. It was very slow burn and I loved it. I’m always a sucker for a good slow burn romance.

This was a solid, hardcore enemies-to-lovers workplace romance—entertaining, exciting, and engaging throughout. The storyline stayed focused on the workplace dynamic without relying on overly dramatic or annoying scenes, which made it a refreshing read. While there were hints of the miscommunication trope, it was handled in a way that wasn’t frustrating or overdone.

The characters were just as compelling as the plot. The tension between them was intense, which kept the story moving. My main issue was with Tris—her tendency to turn everything into a competition, along with her quick judgments and assumptions about Rafe, felt a bit overbearing at times. Still, I could understand where she was coming from, and it added complexity to her character. Honestly, the story holds a lot of promise.

As the story progressed, though, some parts felt slightly out of context. Rafe’s character became a bit confusing—at times, he seemed to represent two different personas, which made it hard to grasp his true purpose in the story. This inconsistency made me question the development of both main characters. The narrative occasionally felt scattered and lacked cohesion, but the potential was definitely there.

Despite its flaws, the story was cute and light-hearted in many ways. Some scenes carried heavier themes, but they served a purpose and conveyed meaningful advocacy. The smut scenes were a bit rushed toward the end, but they were present—no complaints there! If you’re looking for your next contemporary enemies-to-lovers romance, this book is a strong contender. This was enjoyable but needs some more improvements!

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Nisha more… she gives us Not Safe for Work—a contemporary romance that had me grinning, swooning, and thinking about “Lucifer in a Ralph Lauren model disguise.” Like??? Obsessed.

This book has workplace chaos, tropical retreats, STEM rep, and the kind of tension that crackles on the page. Trishara is a queen. Rafe is hot, supportive, and broody. Every glance, every argument, and every “accidental” touch had me kicking my feet. The vibes? Immaculate.

I genuinely love how Nisha can go from fae battles to office flirtation and make both feel equally addictive.

Thank you to Nisha J. Tuli and Forever Publishing for the eARC!