‘The Office Christmas Party’ by Aimee Duffy published by HarperCollins UK says publication date 21/10 but when I look on Amazon it says 17/12 and cant see a Kindle edition so ???

This book has a good storyline, its about two people who for various reasons use December to gatecrash high end Christmas parties.....they meet at one of these events and become arch rivals.....but, of course, that changes and the book then takes a predictable turn of events, along he way there are some LOL moments and much drama and various disasters and one major ‘twist’ that you will guess immediately.....but it kinda doesn’t matter that you do, and it all ends with a huge Christmas fuzzzy nice feeling.......
The use of the word ‘frick’ throughout the book is VERY annoying and the foray into ‘50 shades’ scenes imo dont add anything to the story nor does the main character and his brother’s ‘banter’ which feels and reads totally out of their characters when happens ( both A1 Alpha males suddenly telling each other to ‘keep their lacy knickers on’ when arguing just read weird)
I kept thinking this book would make a really excellent ‘feel good’ film
On the whole an enjoyable Crimbo read

Natalie and Dean both love crashing Christmas parties, but when they start to crash the same parties, the competition gets heated! Natalie started crashing Christmas parties after her mom died to keep herself in that holiday spirit. When she meets her rival, Dean, at one of the parties, she realizes the fun may be over...or is it?

Natalie and Dean, who are done with serious relationships forever (each for different reasons), spend the end of every year Christmas party crashing to get them through the holiday season. Free food, free booze, lots of single lonely people. Dean's usual wing man is his brother, Jeffrey. Natalie had her BFF and roommate Rose. This year however, both sidekicks are recently engaged (not to each other) so Dean and Natalie both decide to crash solo this year. Once they meet and decide it's too risky to have two separate crashers at each party, the prank war begins.

I really enjoyed this one. I even laughed out loud a few times. "Dean stood over the brass torture device, his jaw clenched with determination. There was no way this thing was going to get a chance at it again. He was an adult. Thirty years old. This was not going to beat him. The hot water tap groaned a protest when he turned it on and the cold one did the same. He dropped in a cupcake thing that one of the maids had assured him was better than a bubble bath and cursed to himself when he saw it dissolve, turning the water pale pink and glitter. He had to do something manly after this...like go out hunting or wrestle a bear. He couldn't think of anything more emasculating than a glittery bubble bath..." I was laughing this entire scene because the way he was thinking is probably completely accurate of a male mind as far as bubble baths go.

There was a plot revealed toward the end of the book that I figured out pretty early on. I was hoping I'd be wrong, but I wasn't. So it wasn't very original I suppose. But other than that the story flowed well. The romance seemed pretty realistic and it didn't feel rushed like Christmas romance books sometimes tend to be. I think I will check out more stuff by Aimee Duffy.