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Un Ardiente Amor (2011)

by Paula Roe(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373359470 (ISBN13: 9780373359479)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Harlequin

review 1: After kissing her drunk boss, Emily Reynolds quits via email. When persistent knocking erupts at her door, she finds said boss, Zac Prescott demanding to know why she quit. Although he doesn't reveal it, Zac remembers every sort second of that kiss. The kiss that woke him up. Zac is known to love many women, but no woman has ever gotten his attention like his assistant. The assistant that handles all his day to day needs. The one he's never truly seen before.When she tells him she's going back to school and plans to open her own business, he pleads with her to stay. Although she turns him down, when her ex-husbands gambling goons demand money from her, she must continue working to pay the money. Overhearing the threat, Zac takes care of the debt for her, but she's already ... morecancelled school and is persistent she will work and pay him back and go to school in the spring. When he reveals he in fact does remember the kiss and does in fact want to continue, they arrange a deal for pleasure, but after past office mishaps, she demands it stays out of the office. Working efficiently together has never been a problem for them. Now, new challenges meet them. she's in charge of a huge business launch project for him and his brother and father re-enter his life after long silence. Slowly their pasts come out, truth are revealed and Emily learns her life will never be like that of what she grew up in.
review 2: Rbrs #11I'm glad the title has a question mark at the end, because what the heck kind of message would it have without that little squiggle of doubt (or even worse, if it had been an exclamation point). I was once talking to a coworker's wife about the rough work week that was happening, and she casually tossed out that all I'd have to do was get married and then I wouldn't have to work at all. I didn't know what to say to that and suppressed my immediate urge to vent a spittle-filled "pssh" of disbelief, or an "oh my God" or horror, or a "motherf*cker" of disgust. I ended up giving a non-commital laugh with a neutral "I guess that works for some." We didn't become friends.I don't mean that choosing work over creating family is the way to go, but I certainly don't believe choosing to focus on the domestic over work is superior. I hugely admire people who've made all kinds of choices - career-driven, family-centric, tackling both - and the tendency to raise one over the other is...not good.Anyway, the title is unfitting for what ended up unfolding in this book. Did anyone else think the timeline was screwy, that the book stated she'd worked for this dude for 2 years but then later the dude stated she'd worked for him for 6 months? Maybe I misunderstood. A woman who is very good at her job attempts to go back to school to prepare for her own business (life coaching, and I laugh at the thought of it but looking at my path so far maybe I could benefit from it). She'd been careful to keep herself businesslike and totally disguised with glasses (as we know from the movies, glasses can hide everything from superhuman strength to a smokin' body) and boxy blazers, but her boss chanced to see her in casual clothes and got the hots for her. He tricks her into staying as she is, his assistant - but it's okay! because they're meant to be together. Before they realize this he coerces her into a sexytimes arrangement - but it's okay!, because she really actually wants him, too. There are a few cardboard conflicts including a dead ex-husband's debts, rich family issues, a blip of a stalker. At the veeeeeery end, there's a tacked on marriage proposal. Oops, spoiler alert. And hey, it all works out in the end because, spoiler alert, her father-in-law-to-be agrees to fund her studies and business. None of these should be spoilers.I did appreciate that even though she's supposed to be totally gorgeous with great jugs and hot buns (this is embarrassing, it's like my sorry excuse for cussing but different), she's awkward. Not original, but at least she's not perfect.I realize I'm overlaying my own working values over this reverie of a situation, that this is not intended to be realistic, but the contemporary setting throws me off and I think it makes me not expect everything to work out just right.I have to add, in my field, by the time someone gains enough experience to become a manager/boss, they've usually married their schoolteacher sweetheart, had a few kids, lost the hairline, and refused to give up those now too-tight slacks resulting in muffintops. All my bosses have been fatherly, in their contact with me and in my view of them. The fantasy of getting with the boss has never been one that I wanted. This book is not for me. less

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