Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Ship Work
SERIES: Valentine’s Inc. Cruises #1
AUTHOR: Jacki James
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 1859 kb
RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2019
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Falling in love with your boss is never a good idea. Now if someone could just explain that to my heart.
Dane:
When I first started working for Holt Atwood, I respected him. That respect turned to like, and eventually into love.
But Holt is married to his job, and I am not about playing second fiddle to mergers and acquisitions. So it’s time to move on.
I can do this one last thing for him though. I can go on this singles cruise with him and help him see that work isn’t all there is to life. If I can do that, I will feel better about leaving him with such short notice.
Holt:
Work has been my focus for so long I’ve forgotten what it’s like to just let go and have fun.
At first, when my parents insisted I go on this cruise because I was on the fast track to burn out, I thought I could take my assistant along and make it a work trip.
But Dane has other ideas, and the longer I am around him outside of work, the more I realize maybe everyone is right. Maybe I have been so focused on work I’ve missed what’s really important.
I just hope it’s not too late to convince Dane I want him for more than work. I want him forever.
REVIEW:
This is a cute way to start out this series. It really is. An overworked boss, who doesn’t know the meaning of the word fun, and an assistant who’s leaving in order to finally have a life.
When Holt gets shanghaied by his mother to take this cruise to take time off, he immediately gets his assistant Dane to go with him. He figures he can work the whole time and get everyone off his back too. But what he doesn’t realize is Dane has put in his notice to resign and this cruise is his last job for Holt. He also has no plans whatsoever to work the whole time he’s on that cruise and has no problem putting his foot down with Holt. Holt finally caves and agrees to a little fun, and quickly realized how much he needs Dane in his life. For five years, they’ve been together for work but for Holt, he finally realized it means more for him and he wants more. But sticking his foot in his mouth when he finds out about Dane’s new job, has just put all he wants in jeopardy and if he doesn’t work quickly, he won’t get it back.
I used to work a job where it was 12-16 hour days almost every day, and I burned out after a bit. So I get where Holt is coming from to a point but I totally get everyone else trying to get him to take a break. Burn out is no fun. To this day, I still can never even think of working for a restaurant again. No matter what my skills were.
And Dane I was so proud of for putting his foot down. Five years of missing things, and losing boyfriends and missing family events all for Holt and work. Enough is enough. Time to live life and find what makes him happy. Now if he can just get Holt to do that while here on this cruise.
A good way to start off this series. And good to see some old visitors.
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