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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
Who wouldn’t love a book that starts out at what might be my own personal Mecca, an Office Supply Convention? Who knew that such a thing existed? I love a planner loving, organized, funny strong female character. Charlee is wonderful and funny . her wonderful weirdness and no filter honesty was so refreshing.
Rath having been hurt in a previously relationship is so guarded against Charlee. He is trying so hard to fight against his attraction to her. Rath has good friends who have all fallen in love. His very own bromance, Bram has fallen in love with Rath’s own sister. Rath’s love of Historical Romance just helps you love him more. Rath is so well written you can’t help but be rooting for them.
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The high points of this story for me would have to be the mischief making Grandma character, cock blasting Pictionary and that David Hasselhoff sex dream. So many cringeworthy and outrageously hilarious scenes that will forever be some of my favorites. Boss Man Bridegroom is an office romance and marriage of convenience. I read this as a standalone, but we will absolutely be headed back to read the 2 other books in this series. Do yourself a huge favor and read Boss Man Bridegroom!
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Actual Rating: 4.5 Stars
See the full review at HarlequinJunkie
Boss Man Bridegroom was raunchy romcom goodness with a heart. And it had a whole lot to offer readers: boss/employee romance, fake fiance, marriage of convenience, clashing personalities, and two very stubborn but compassionate people destined to be together.
Meghan Quinn had me laughing so hard at times with Boss Man Bridegroom that I was nearly crying. It was that hilarious. Charlee and Rath were absolutely awesome together. From the confusion about her employment status after her first (fiasco of a) day to how they pushed each other to extremes, I fell madly in love with Rath and Charlee right away. How could I not? Read More
See the full review at HarlequinJunkie
Boss Man Bridegroom was raunchy romcom goodness with a heart. And it had a whole lot to offer readers: boss/employee romance, fake fiance, marriage of convenience, clashing personalities, and two very stubborn but compassionate people destined to be together.
Meghan Quinn had me laughing so hard at times with Boss Man Bridegroom that I was nearly crying. It was that hilarious. Charlee and Rath were absolutely awesome together. From the confusion about her employment status after her first (fiasco of a) day to how they pushed each other to extremes, I fell madly in love with Rath and Charlee right away. How could I not? Read More
This was hilarious, sweet, and not too much angst. The romance/steam is on the slow-burn side, but the sexual tension is there from the beginning. The first half was consistently entertaining. I laughed so hard on that Pictionary game. It worked so well because of Charlee's character.
"I can see your ankles. If you were in a historical romance you might be considered a whore."
We step off the escalator. "Good thing we're in modern-day life and I have a penis."
Boss Man Bridegroom is my first ever Meghan Quinn novel, and I was definitely not disappointed. I was looking for something light and sexy to read, and this one delivered, and gave so much more. It's a personal indulgence that I absolutely enjoyed.
It has the elements of a good office rom-com, such as very brooding and stern CEO boss, a witty and happy-go-luck secretary, a lot of sass and back and forth working relationship, and even more steamy and angsty romantic connection that made me just gobble it up fast. It is definitely full of tropes that is popular in a lot of romance novels, but those tropes still work, and she even managed to spice it up a notch. It wasn't just Rath and Charlee's relationship that I rooted for, but also their interactions with their family and friends - especially Rath and Bram's bromance! Ugh! I really want to read more of the other guys' friendship together!
I highly recommend this one for anyone who just wants to swoon and laugh.
We step off the escalator. "Good thing we're in modern-day life and I have a penis."
Boss Man Bridegroom is my first ever Meghan Quinn novel, and I was definitely not disappointed. I was looking for something light and sexy to read, and this one delivered, and gave so much more. It's a personal indulgence that I absolutely enjoyed.
It has the elements of a good office rom-com, such as very brooding and stern CEO boss, a witty and happy-go-luck secretary, a lot of sass and back and forth working relationship, and even more steamy and angsty romantic connection that made me just gobble it up fast. It is definitely full of tropes that is popular in a lot of romance novels, but those tropes still work, and she even managed to spice it up a notch. It wasn't just Rath and Charlee's relationship that I rooted for, but also their interactions with their family and friends - especially Rath and Bram's bromance! Ugh! I really want to read more of the other guys' friendship together!
I highly recommend this one for anyone who just wants to swoon and laugh.
First, a note : it's not made clear at all but this is the third book in a series of standalones about 3 best friends. I know this is subjective but I don't approach series the same and I would have wanted to know this so I could make an enlightened choice. I feel a bit cheated.
This book didn't work for me at all. Let's get the few positives out of the way first, before I explain what ruined it for me. First of all, the writing is fairly dynamic and dramatic. It feels high in colour. There is a point in the story where the author builds some decent UST, even though the underlying causes don't stand up to any scrutiny, and it doesn't last for long. The story is light and cheerful, apart from a few dramatic moments, and aims to be funny, even though it often misses the mark, at times it does manage to give this lighthearted, fun vibe.
Now for what took me out of the story, in no particular order.
There's a lot of telling, not showing when it comes to characters' feelings. The character will give us an unnecessary recap of the situation and then the feelings will be flatly described. It's not very dynamic and doesn't make this reader feel anything at all.
One of my major issues with the book is how everyone seems to have a complete and utter lack of boundaries. It felt like the book took place in an alternate universe where people discuss their sex lives, and the state of their genitals in graphic detail openly with their grandma, their friends and the friends' girlfriends, their boss... An example that made my jaw drop : Bram tells his male best friends and their girlfriends "it makes me laugh so hard my penis jiggles". The oversharing was constant and completely unbelievable. I just couldn't suspend disbelief that far. This is a contemporary romance, it's supposed to take place in our world. I can forgive minor inaccuracies, I can forgive details, or things that advance the plot satisfactorily enough. But this... it was just so jarring. I spent my whole time cringing, because if this had happened in front of me, I'd have been so taken aback. When basic human interactions don't function as they would for human beings, in a romance which is by nature centred around these interactions, it just can't work.
To be clear this isn't because things of a sexual nature shock me. It's just that there's a time and a place for them, and the realistic portrayal of these boundaries can make the moments when the characters gradually move beyond the boundaries to become closer, physically and emotionally, all the more powerful.
In terms of the workplace romance, it's so utterly unrealistic as to become meaningless. Charlee behaves with an attitude towards her boss from the very first day which is just absurd and would never fly for a second in a real life assistant. She is completely unprofessional. She takes a week off here and there with no forewarning whatsoever because she's sad about her grandma's health or because she had a fight with her boss/boyfriend. Look I know those feelings suck but they are definitely not a valid excuse to miss work here on this planet.
Charlee has no filter. She's an extreme example of manic pixie dream girl. She's also exhausting. She has moments of complete awkwardness, where she just word-vomits out the most mortifying TMI seemingly without being able to stop. I think she's meant to be funny and adorable and while it hits the mark a couple times, most of the time it misses by a mile and ends up being weird and terminally cringy.
It's weirdly manipulative of her to stay, pretend she didn't understand him and guilt him into keeping her when she knows very well he fired her. In general Charlee and her grandma have these strange moments of manipulation that are played off as fine because their intentions were good. It made me uncomfortable. It's like because they are supposed to be cute, it's ok that they are really manipulative behind the cuteness. Er, no.
Let's move on to Grandma. I hated Grandma, she was awful from beginning to end. We're told she's Charlee's best friend, despite there being no evidence to back this up. Grandma makes constant sexual comments about Rath and asks extremely intrusive questions about him and their sex life. It's seriously gross. An old man doing this would rightfully be considered disgusting and pervy. I don't get why it's ok to have an old woman leering at younger people. Now, in a twist so grotesquely obvious that it was practically telegraphed to us in flashing neon signs, of course Grandma islying abut being sick to manipulate her granddaughter into getting married. Which is such a stupid and hurtful move, I don't understand why on earth she did such a thing. Her granddaughter spends a week sobbing and Grandma doesn't even reconsider. What an awful person. Again, the book treats this horrible behaviour as ultimately justified and forgivable, and I'm just baffled because in my world that's not ok.
Bram is a comparatively minor character but he was so baffling I have to give him his own paragraph. The cringe factor is very high with this one too. I cannot imagine an adult man ever speaking the way he does. His bromance with Rath crosses over into the inappropriate, which is overemphasised by every character around them and played for laughs. I think it's supposed to be cute but it crosses into seeming far too real. They genuinely seem to love each other more than they love poor Julia, which in both cases is so wrong. She vanishes into the background whenever those two are together, it's unhealthy and unfair to her.
Rath and Charlee are both childish drama queens. They throw tantrums and pout over the stupidest things, and in general their drama seems so immature. I couldn't feel emotionally invested when I wanted to roll my eyes and shake them. It was high school levels of theatrics. If they'd just managed to have a couple of honest conversations, all the conflict would have melted away. This doesn't sustain an interesting story.
In fact really none of the conflict was convincing, the causes were flimsy and contrived. The characters just needed a small adjustment in their attitude and every conflict was solved easily. Similarly, the whole marriage of convenience business is shoehorned in to be able to claim the trope in the marketing for the book, but it's the most unconvincing reasoning for a mariage of convenience I've ever encountered. It was superficial and unnecessary. Marriage is not just the pretty moment of walking down the aisle. These two had no good reason to get married and it showed, it wasn't compelling at all.
Lastly this needed a round of professional editing. There are a lot of homophone mistakes, as well as phrases using the wrong word.
At the beginning, I saw these issues but they hadn't worn me down yet; the fun, lighthearted vibe was still giving me hope. But this is quite a long book and as it dragged on my hopes dwindled and I became very bored. In fact, I finally started playing Stardew Valley in earnest and made huge progress with my farm thanks to this book. When I was putting more thought into planning my crops and what upgrade to buy next, I knew this book was not going to get a very good grade from me.
I hate to be negative and I feel bad that I've basically shat all over this book. I always want to see the good in books and it's a learning process to allow myself to admit when I disliked a book. I am sure it will be better suited to some other people, but I have to be honest with myself and say what bothered me. And this book had too much wrong with it to be enjoyable, unfortunately.
This book didn't work for me at all. Let's get the few positives out of the way first, before I explain what ruined it for me. First of all, the writing is fairly dynamic and dramatic. It feels high in colour. There is a point in the story where the author builds some decent UST, even though the underlying causes don't stand up to any scrutiny, and it doesn't last for long. The story is light and cheerful, apart from a few dramatic moments, and aims to be funny, even though it often misses the mark, at times it does manage to give this lighthearted, fun vibe.
Now for what took me out of the story, in no particular order.
There's a lot of telling, not showing when it comes to characters' feelings. The character will give us an unnecessary recap of the situation and then the feelings will be flatly described. It's not very dynamic and doesn't make this reader feel anything at all.
One of my major issues with the book is how everyone seems to have a complete and utter lack of boundaries. It felt like the book took place in an alternate universe where people discuss their sex lives, and the state of their genitals in graphic detail openly with their grandma, their friends and the friends' girlfriends, their boss... An example that made my jaw drop : Bram tells his male best friends and their girlfriends "it makes me laugh so hard my penis jiggles". The oversharing was constant and completely unbelievable. I just couldn't suspend disbelief that far. This is a contemporary romance, it's supposed to take place in our world. I can forgive minor inaccuracies, I can forgive details, or things that advance the plot satisfactorily enough. But this... it was just so jarring. I spent my whole time cringing, because if this had happened in front of me, I'd have been so taken aback. When basic human interactions don't function as they would for human beings, in a romance which is by nature centred around these interactions, it just can't work.
To be clear this isn't because things of a sexual nature shock me. It's just that there's a time and a place for them, and the realistic portrayal of these boundaries can make the moments when the characters gradually move beyond the boundaries to become closer, physically and emotionally, all the more powerful.
In terms of the workplace romance, it's so utterly unrealistic as to become meaningless. Charlee behaves with an attitude towards her boss from the very first day which is just absurd and would never fly for a second in a real life assistant. She is completely unprofessional. She takes a week off here and there with no forewarning whatsoever because she's sad about her grandma's health or because she had a fight with her boss/boyfriend. Look I know those feelings suck but they are definitely not a valid excuse to miss work here on this planet.
Charlee has no filter. She's an extreme example of manic pixie dream girl. She's also exhausting. She has moments of complete awkwardness, where she just word-vomits out the most mortifying TMI seemingly without being able to stop. I think she's meant to be funny and adorable and while it hits the mark a couple times, most of the time it misses by a mile and ends up being weird and terminally cringy.
It's weirdly manipulative of her to stay, pretend she didn't understand him and guilt him into keeping her when she knows very well he fired her. In general Charlee and her grandma have these strange moments of manipulation that are played off as fine because their intentions were good. It made me uncomfortable. It's like because they are supposed to be cute, it's ok that they are really manipulative behind the cuteness. Er, no.
Let's move on to Grandma. I hated Grandma, she was awful from beginning to end. We're told she's Charlee's best friend, despite there being no evidence to back this up. Grandma makes constant sexual comments about Rath and asks extremely intrusive questions about him and their sex life. It's seriously gross. An old man doing this would rightfully be considered disgusting and pervy. I don't get why it's ok to have an old woman leering at younger people. Now, in a twist so grotesquely obvious that it was practically telegraphed to us in flashing neon signs, of course Grandma is
Bram is a comparatively minor character but he was so baffling I have to give him his own paragraph. The cringe factor is very high with this one too. I cannot imagine an adult man ever speaking the way he does. His bromance with Rath crosses over into the inappropriate, which is overemphasised by every character around them and played for laughs. I think it's supposed to be cute but it crosses into seeming far too real. They genuinely seem to love each other more than they love poor Julia, which in both cases is so wrong. She vanishes into the background whenever those two are together, it's unhealthy and unfair to her.
Rath and Charlee are both childish drama queens. They throw tantrums and pout over the stupidest things, and in general their drama seems so immature. I couldn't feel emotionally invested when I wanted to roll my eyes and shake them. It was high school levels of theatrics. If they'd just managed to have a couple of honest conversations, all the conflict would have melted away. This doesn't sustain an interesting story.
In fact really none of the conflict was convincing, the causes were flimsy and contrived. The characters just needed a small adjustment in their attitude and every conflict was solved easily. Similarly, the whole marriage of convenience business is shoehorned in to be able to claim the trope in the marketing for the book, but it's the most unconvincing reasoning for a mariage of convenience I've ever encountered. It was superficial and unnecessary. Marriage is not just the pretty moment of walking down the aisle. These two had no good reason to get married and it showed, it wasn't compelling at all.
Lastly this needed a round of professional editing. There are a lot of homophone mistakes, as well as phrases using the wrong word.
At the beginning, I saw these issues but they hadn't worn me down yet; the fun, lighthearted vibe was still giving me hope. But this is quite a long book and as it dragged on my hopes dwindled and I became very bored. In fact, I finally started playing Stardew Valley in earnest and made huge progress with my farm thanks to this book. When I was putting more thought into planning my crops and what upgrade to buy next, I knew this book was not going to get a very good grade from me.
I hate to be negative and I feel bad that I've basically shat all over this book. I always want to see the good in books and it's a learning process to allow myself to admit when I disliked a book. I am sure it will be better suited to some other people, but I have to be honest with myself and say what bothered me. And this book had too much wrong with it to be enjoyable, unfortunately.
3.75 ⭐
Im so happy i didn't DNF this one
It was amazing, i laughed out loud and felt my heart break at time and I'm already adding the other 2 books in the serie because i fell in love with the crew
Im so happy i didn't DNF this one
It was amazing, i laughed out loud and felt my heart break at time and I'm already adding the other 2 books in the serie because i fell in love with the crew
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I couldn't stop laughing throughout this book. Charlee cracked me up i just couldn't stop. I can't remember the last time i laughed so hard reading.
loved the banter between Charlee and Rath. I loved everything about this book.
I need more Linus as well!!
loved the banter between Charlee and Rath. I loved everything about this book.
I need more Linus as well!!