REVIEWED by Jay V.
TITLE: Work-Love Balance
AUTHOR: Allison Temple
SERIES: Out & About #1
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 242 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 9, 2020
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The customer always comes first, but IT consultant Brady Jansen loves to hate Nash O’Hara. Except the fine line between hate and attraction means sometimes Brady can’t help it when he crosses the boundary from professional and personal.
Recently divorced, workaholic Nash knows he’s hard to please. When the smart-mouthed IT consultant he depends on to keep his office running offers a no-commitment hook up, it seems like exactly what he and Brady both need to get through a busy summer at work. No one has to know about their arrangement.
But the more time they spend together, the more secrets they have to keep from the people around them, and from each other. The lies are piling up, until it’s hard to tell who’s fooling who. If Brady and Nash want to find the balance between work and love, a little honesty will go a long way.
REVIEW:
Nash really is the nightmare client for computer consultant Brady Jansen. He’s tough and demanding. With a slip of the tongue, things go a little farther, with a no strings arrangement beginning. They try to balance their work and fun, but things are developing faster and deeper than either expect.
Brady is a really intriguing character as he tries to navigate being younger and manage his own company. Now that Nash has been thrown in to the picture, more than just an annoying client, Brady has to figure out, to steal the title, a work-life balance. Nash, who is early on prickly and fickle, quickly develops out to be struggling with an ex-husband and kids, who are struggling with their own issues.
If you’re looking for a book that deals in realism, this is it. They have some true struggles but there’s lots of heat and sex along the way. The conflict near the end sometimes seem a bit forced but it’s finally resolved. Nash’s development as a person also seems a bit fast but it’s something he needed to deal with and had been in denial for some time.
If you like Temple’s writing, this is a book for you. It’s the first in a series with ties to the work environment. This book wraps up cleanly so the next book deals with one of Nash’s coworkers, Doug. No cliffhangers. Things get ironed out in the end of this book almost against the characters leanings, but it’s nice to have a happy ending. Doug, who’s getting married soon, seems quite the character, so I’m looking forward to the next book that centers on him.
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