BLOG TOUR REVIEW - Head Over Heels for the Boss by Susan Meier

Head Over Heels for the Boss by Susan Meier

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publication: September 14th, 2015 by Entangled Publishing

Fantasizing about the boss is one thing. Falling in love with him is quite another…

Isabelle Cooper's in big, big trouble. Her flower shop? Well, it was just bought by the man she’s had a crush on forever. Her new boss, Devon Donovan, is a tall glass of melt-in-your-mouth hotness. The problem? Devon is definitely not interested in love. No ifs, ands, or buds about it.

Devon knows Isabelle has been crushing on him since college, but buying her business shouldn’t be a problem. Not only is she his employee, but as the eldest Donovan brother, he’s too busy protecting the family fortune for romance. But tomboy “Izzy” is all grown up now. And he’s finding it impossible to resist her, no matter how hard he tries...

I'm really on the fence with this book; I wanted to like it because the blurb sounded like it's going to be an entertaining read, but the more I read it the more I wanted reach through the pages and shake some damn sense into both Isabelle and Devon. There were a few incidents in the story that boggled my mind, which admittedly doesn't take much at times, but there you have it.

I didn't understand exactly why Isabelle's parents sold the business to Donovan Inc. I understand they wanted to retire, but since they pretty much paid for Isabelle's college education and she gained her MBA in order to take over the shop, why sell it to another company? And with the stipulation that Isabelle be kept as just the manager of the shop? Talk about a slap to the face. And while Isabelle has always had a crush on Devon, he doesn't do relationships or believe in love. But you have to know about his childhood and why that has shaped him into the man he is today.

What I couldn't get with is that while Devon is attracted to Isabelle, he tells her that they won't be in a relationship, but he is willing to have an affair with her. And she goes along with it? I'm sorry, but if my lifelong crush tells me that we can be together but it will have to be in secret, I'm chucking him the deuce and rolling out. There's only so much I'll do to be with someone and I have to sneak around like a thief in the night? Love peace and hair grease homie, I ain't that chick.

I finally cheered when Isabelle finally got her act together, although I wish it had occurred a bit earlier in the story than when it did, because the ending wouldn't have felt so rushed.

ARC provided by publisher via Netgalley in exchange for honest review.

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About the Author

Susan Meier is the author of over 60 books for Harlequin and Silhouette, Entangled Indulgence, Red Hot Bliss and Bliss and one of Guideposts' Grace Chapel Inn series books, THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS. In 2013 she lived one of her career-long dreams. Her book, THE TYCOON’S SECRET DAUGHER was a finalist for RWA’s highest honor, the Rita. The same year NANNY FOR THE MILLIONAIRE’S TWINS was a National Reader’s Choice finalist and won the Book Buyer’s Best Award.

Susan is married with three children and is one of eleven children, which is why love and family are always part of her stories.

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BLOG TOUR REVIEW - A Wife in Every Sense (A Europe's Hottest Billionaires Novel) by Joanne Walsh

A Wife in Every Sense by Joanna Walsh

Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance

Publication: September 14th, 2015 by Entangled Publishing

Kate Burrows is crushing on her boss big time. Aleksei Aleksanou is tall, dark, and every inch the image of a classic Greek god—if said Greek god was incredibly sexy, rich, and a complete player. The only way she can get over him is by quitting her job and seeing the world...once she indulges in one wickedly-hot night with him.

Only now she's pregnant.

Aleksei is furious when Kate arrives on the small Greek island of Naxea and tries to hide the truth for him. He takes matters into his own hands—by announcing the pregnancy to his family and asking her to marry him. Now Kate must decide if she can marry the man of her hottest, sexiest dreams...knowing she will never be the wife of his heart. 

This was my first time reading Joanne Walsh and I enjoyed the story. The premise is a familiar one with the personal assistant who has fallen in love with her boss. I liked how instead of the usual shenanigans that occur with them hooking up but keeping it quiet at work, Kate actually has enough sense to not even think about crossing that line, and instead decides to resign from her job and do some traveling with her best friend. Little does she know that Aleksei has indeed noticed her as something more than just an employee.

So from the blurb you know Kate ends up pregnant, Aleksei isn't furious when he finds out, but he does propose marriage. There is some requisite drama that occurs due to a woman Aleksei dated a few times in the recent past, but Aleksei doesn't quite get why Kate is so upset with that particular situation. I will say that it shocked me when I read about the confrontation at the hotel between Kate and the ex. I was shocked that both Kate and Aleksei didn't press charges against her. I thought how that matter wrapped up was pretty weak.

We do get a HEA for Aleksei and Kate, and I'm hoping we might get a story about Kate's best friend Lydia.

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About the Author

Joanne Walsh became hooked on romance when her grandma gave her a copy of Gone with the Wind for her birthday. The teachers at her strict girls' school didn't approve of reading such a 'racy' novel and confiscated it. But Joanne had been introduced to Rhett Butler and so began her life-long love affair with the rogue alpha hero. She became a voracious romance reader and, later, enjoyed a long career as an editor for one of the world's leading women's fiction publishers, where she collaborated with some wonderful writers.

These days, Joanne lives in the south of England and divides her time between working as a freelance fiction editor and writing romance, and spending time with her very own real-life hero...

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