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Hot Copy by Ruby Barrett

8 reviews

margaret_rose_reads123's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Hot Copy is a spicy workplace romance that takes place in a law office in Boston. Candice Blunt and her intern Wesley Chambers get off on the wrong foot when another intern makes a sexist and offensive “joke” on the first day. But once these two settle the misunderstanding, the open door scenes start adding up! I found myself waiting for the next one! Very well written and tackling additional themes such as workplace sexual harassment (not between the two MCs!) cancer, and death of a parent. They need to find themselves before they can get completely lost in each other.

Ps: this book can be read as a standalone, but is an excellent set up for the second book Romance Recipe about Wesley’s sister Amy! I read that one first, but was still able to read both out of order!

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rileymc_queen's review

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I don’t like it when characters make clearly bad choices that no intelligent adult would make

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alyssajp's review against another edition

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Hot, for sure.

Tropes: Workplace romance. Enemies to Lovers.

A+ banter

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sarah_brazenbookworm's review

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

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karsyn's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This was going to be a four-star book, but the last 20% really did it for me. Hot sex, taking care of each other, AND both parties admitting they aren’t at their best? Just a really lovely book. Did I mention the sex? 👁👄👁 For real, this book made me ugly cry

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ecobookworm's review

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I just can't get past the power imbalance of having a boss sleeping with her intern. It's not okay just because the boss is a woman! I can see the author tries to do it sensitively as they do have conversations about consent and it does seem like enthusiastic consent, but the power dynamic is such that it feels wrong - Corinne even says so in the book. The build-up isn't adequate to justify them hooking up or for them to have significant feelings for each other, and in fact they don't. Which makes it worse, because IMO you would need to have a really good reason to sleep with your intern or boss and there wasn't a significant reason here beyond attraction, horniness and emotional vulnerability. There's lots of sex but I didn't enjoy reading it very much as the premise is so questionable, and the first scene so very random. It feels rushed and careless and not thought through. Like, couldn't they wait until his internship is done? She's his direct superior! And they KNOW it would be career-ruining for them both, her especially, but it's kind of just waved aside. Corinne is established as someone super driven and strategic, I don't buy it. I do like them as characters, but I think a different dynamic or setup would've been necessary to make it not seem like an irredeemably bad idea. I'm willing to set aside my expectations of realism to some extent when reading romance, but this didn't work for me.

I know that the boss/employee dynamic can be done well (eg. Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner) but this doesn't reach there for me. The quality of writing is fine, it's pretty steamy, I'm sure it's very enjoyable for other people, but the whole thing just made me feel uncomfortable. I'll skim through the rest to see what happens but this book isn't for me.

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decklededgess's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

trigger warnings: age gap relationship, sexual harassment in the workplace, sexist commentary, parents with cancer, dead parents, estranged parent, premarital pregnancy mention, sex and nudity

Well 9 sex scenes really is something else. I will say the age gap paired with a boss-intern relationship was WEIRD. The intern is 25 the boss is 30 so it's not gross in that creepy sense. The book does explore power imbalances in an interesting way where it really takes into account how that affects the relationship. As someone who is really squicky about that...this book didn't feel like it was exploitative. It certainly felt like an even playing field.

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murphymacdo's review

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reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I'm not really sure how I felt about this one. It was a little too serious considering the cover and blurb -- dealt a lot with grief (parental loss) and workplace sexual harassment. I also love high-heat books, but ended up skipping a few of the later sex scenes because I was just ready to be done with the book. I got tired of the push-pull between the hero and heroine (heroine keeps saying 'no, we can't do this, it's unprofessional' but then has sex with him in her office multiple times?) I'm a bit disappointed because I saw a lot of hype for this and the cover was so cute. Definitely not one of my favorites in terms of characters or even plot, but the writing was good.

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