By a Thread by Lucy Score on April 23, 2020
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Romance / Workplace
Pages: 560
Format: eBook
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“Look, the point of a relationship isn’t hiding your stupid wounds and flaws. It’s about showing them to someone and letting them still love you. You were able to hurt her because she let you in.”
Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother. So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue. But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father. She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.
Ally
Ha. Hold my beer, Charming.
Lucy Score does knocks another one out of the park for me! She has so quickly become one of my favorite authors! Just the right amount of drama and romance, for my liking, of course. I loved that Ally is an independent woman, a real-life fighter and the fact she doesn’t want charity or pity. As for Dom, he’s a tortured soul and he cares deeply for Ally even if he can’t express his feelings. The banter and tension between Ally and Dominic worked well and had me smiling a bit. I laughed out loud several times, and appreciated the character development. This was simply an engaging book with easy reading fluidity that kept me turning pages.
I gave this novel a four-star rating. I really liked it and I definitely recommend it of you’re in a mood for an enemies-to-lovers, office romance. Oh, and make sure to read the extended epilogue, I thought it was really cute.