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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
I received an advanced readers copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
This was my first book by Nancy Herkness. It did not disappoint! I must say the cover did draw me in!
I went into this thinking it was about a small business accountant (Alice) that would eventually fall in love with the extremely wealthy man, who also happened to be an accountant(Derek).
Boy was I wrong! This was full of happy moments of the MCs getting to know each other, some spy work by them and lots of action!
What starts the story is when Alice finds a small discrepancy in several of her clients month end books, this has only happened since she and the companies she does bookkeeping for have begun using a newer software.
By chance she sees an ad that Derek had placed to help out small business like his and his two partners once had before it became a globally known firm.
What starts out as something small that a small business bookkeeper stumbles upon, turns into something the FBI need to be involved in!
While both investigating to see what is going on with this companies software, Alice and Derek begin to fall for each other.
Who knew a bookish cat lady would fall for an attractive rich accountant?
Definitely a good read! Would suggest to any romance lovers.
This was my first book by Nancy Herkness. It did not disappoint! I must say the cover did draw me in!
I went into this thinking it was about a small business accountant (Alice) that would eventually fall in love with the extremely wealthy man, who also happened to be an accountant(Derek).
Boy was I wrong! This was full of happy moments of the MCs getting to know each other, some spy work by them and lots of action!
What starts the story is when Alice finds a small discrepancy in several of her clients month end books, this has only happened since she and the companies she does bookkeeping for have begun using a newer software.
By chance she sees an ad that Derek had placed to help out small business like his and his two partners once had before it became a globally known firm.
What starts out as something small that a small business bookkeeper stumbles upon, turns into something the FBI need to be involved in!
While both investigating to see what is going on with this companies software, Alice and Derek begin to fall for each other.
Who knew a bookish cat lady would fall for an attractive rich accountant?
Definitely a good read! Would suggest to any romance lovers.
I was in the mood for a romantic suspense story. This Kindle Unlimited listen fit the bill in that it had a reasonable amount of romance and mystery. Two workaholic accountants chase cyber thieves after a series of minor accounting discrepancies point to criminal activity. The storyline was somewhat unique. However, it felt a little bit like a story written a decade ago and then updated to be more current.
Narrator Laurie West is the voice for all of the characters and is easy to listen to. She does an admirable job making each character distinct. She invokes the appropriate accents and changes her cadence as she performs so that each character is recognizable to listeners. There were a significant number of male characters. The addition of a male narrator would have enhanced the listening experience.
Narrator Laurie West is the voice for all of the characters and is easy to listen to. She does an admirable job making each character distinct. She invokes the appropriate accents and changes her cadence as she performs so that each character is recognizable to listeners. There were a significant number of male characters. The addition of a male narrator would have enhanced the listening experience.
Even if I think the characters are interesting and the story sweet there was too much technical jargon I couldn't understand and the story didn't keep my attention.
Not my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
Not my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
I loved this book. I found the storyline to be incredibly intriguing and I adored the heroine. I loved that even though she was inexperienced with relationships that didn’t mean that she was a doormat or was totally naive about sex and her own sexuality. What made the relationship between her and Derek so great was that she wasn’t afraid to call him out at times, and the sex scenes were great because she was an extremely active participant in them and knew exactly what she wanted. Also I loved her obsession with regency romances and how she kept fantasizing about Derek in regency clothes.
This was a pretty good read! It was funny, sexy, intriguing and fun. It was sweet to read about Alice and Derek journey of finding love. The only downside for me was that I felt like some aspects of their relationship/lives weren't mentioned enough. Derek is a rich, sexy, smart co-leader of his company with a tough relationship with his dad and some insecurities about his good looks and the assumptions that come with it. Alice also has a difficult relationship with her mother and has developed some insecurities because of it. They're both nerds, smart, but also full of surprises.
Still, I felt like I would've liked to dive deeper into their struggles and their challenges. They were brought up throughout the story when it fit the plot, but otherwise they weren't really talked about much which resulted in us not really knowing the characters all that well.
NEVERTHELESS, I enjoyed the story, the intrigue and the romance. It's a fun read, it just lacks a little bit of depth to me.
Still, I felt like I would've liked to dive deeper into their struggles and their challenges. They were brought up throughout the story when it fit the plot, but otherwise they weren't really talked about much which resulted in us not really knowing the characters all that well.
NEVERTHELESS, I enjoyed the story, the intrigue and the romance. It's a fun read, it just lacks a little bit of depth to me.
This book was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
What a great book! I expected your avarage love at first sight and dive into bed time and time again kind of book. I was happily surprised by the fact that it wasn't.
Writing style: There often were a lot of long paragraphs to get through where nothing useful was being said, and it was often repetitive and could have definitely been edited better. Overall the writing was just fine, but it definitely wasn't impressive or something that kept me interested in reading.
Characters: There wasn't much personality in the characters, but for once I didn't mind. They were at least consistent in their behavior and with the things they said (and the way they would say it).
Story: This was definitely a plot-driven story and I didn't mind one bit! It was interesting, fun, suspenseful and I flew through the book because I had to know how things ended. Herkness kept me intrigued throughout the whole story and she build up to a great conclusion and she delivered with the awesome conclusion too.
Romance: This was so tastefully done. Alice and Derek really build up their relationship from scratch. Yes, there was immediate attraction but they both kept things professional. They didn't ignore what they were feeling and made the adult decision to see where things could go. They didn't jump each other immediately and they were building a solid relationship and not just having hot steaming sex and then suddenly deciding to marry, which was great and after reading many disastrous romance novels I thought reading about a good solid romance blooming up wasn't gonna happen anymore.
I'll stop talking now ;) The Money Man gets three and half stars from me.
What a great book! I expected your avarage love at first sight and dive into bed time and time again kind of book. I was happily surprised by the fact that it wasn't.
Writing style: There often were a lot of long paragraphs to get through where nothing useful was being said, and it was often repetitive and could have definitely been edited better. Overall the writing was just fine, but it definitely wasn't impressive or something that kept me interested in reading.
Characters: There wasn't much personality in the characters, but for once I didn't mind. They were at least consistent in their behavior and with the things they said (and the way they would say it).
Story: This was definitely a plot-driven story and I didn't mind one bit! It was interesting, fun, suspenseful and I flew through the book because I had to know how things ended. Herkness kept me intrigued throughout the whole story and she build up to a great conclusion and she delivered with the awesome conclusion too.
Romance: This was so tastefully done. Alice and Derek really build up their relationship from scratch. Yes, there was immediate attraction but they both kept things professional. They didn't ignore what they were feeling and made the adult decision to see where things could go. They didn't jump each other immediately and they were building a solid relationship and not just having hot steaming sex and then suddenly deciding to marry, which was great and after reading many disastrous romance novels I thought reading about a good solid romance blooming up wasn't gonna happen anymore.
I'll stop talking now ;) The Money Man gets three and half stars from me.
The Money Man by Nancy Herkness
A self-proclaimed nerd Alice Thurber is living a simple life embracing her role as a crazy cat lady and bookkeeper when she discovers some discrepancies in the new accounting software several of her clients are using. Searching the internet for help with her problem, she happens across KRG Consultants small business initiative. Derek Killion wanting to help give a leg up to small and struggling business takes on the challenge of Alice’s problem. Believing it will be a quick and easy fix, something he can while he is starting a large consulting project. It very quickly becomes clear to Derek it isn’t as easy a fix as he thought. He decides to meet with Alice face to face to see if he can come up with a solution. Derek quickly realizes Alice is so much more than the average bookkeeper. Alice and Derek quickly conclude that their problem is a lot bigger than either even thought.
This story really has it all hot steamy attraction, Russian hackers and 2 uninterested cats. Alice knows she is smart well-rounded character with just enough self-doubt to believe she isn’t desirable to someone as worldly and successful as Derek. You are rooting for her to see her own beauty from the beginning. Alice is very likeable, and her self-doubt doesn’t come across as over the top or a hindrance to the story. I did like the trip to Dallas and that to help strengthen the hacking story line. Derek having in the past a failed relationship does show strength by not allowing it to control him or his desire to pursue Alice. Derek’s business partners are wonderful characters in the story. (I cannot wait for their stories.) The love scenes between Derek and Alice were just enough not to over the top and not to dominating with in the story.
If you are looking for a story with action and a mystery to solve with the strong silent type for a hero, you should totally check out Money Man. What I thought was going to be a basic office romance gave me so much more. The pace of story line was great and very plot driven. Alice was not your typical simpering heroine; she is just as interested in getting to the bottom of her problem and asking questions even when she shouldn’t. This is the first book by Nancy Herkness that I have read. It was wonderful and I will absolutely be reading her other works.
A self-proclaimed nerd Alice Thurber is living a simple life embracing her role as a crazy cat lady and bookkeeper when she discovers some discrepancies in the new accounting software several of her clients are using. Searching the internet for help with her problem, she happens across KRG Consultants small business initiative. Derek Killion wanting to help give a leg up to small and struggling business takes on the challenge of Alice’s problem. Believing it will be a quick and easy fix, something he can while he is starting a large consulting project. It very quickly becomes clear to Derek it isn’t as easy a fix as he thought. He decides to meet with Alice face to face to see if he can come up with a solution. Derek quickly realizes Alice is so much more than the average bookkeeper. Alice and Derek quickly conclude that their problem is a lot bigger than either even thought.
This story really has it all hot steamy attraction, Russian hackers and 2 uninterested cats. Alice knows she is smart well-rounded character with just enough self-doubt to believe she isn’t desirable to someone as worldly and successful as Derek. You are rooting for her to see her own beauty from the beginning. Alice is very likeable, and her self-doubt doesn’t come across as over the top or a hindrance to the story. I did like the trip to Dallas and that to help strengthen the hacking story line. Derek having in the past a failed relationship does show strength by not allowing it to control him or his desire to pursue Alice. Derek’s business partners are wonderful characters in the story. (I cannot wait for their stories.) The love scenes between Derek and Alice were just enough not to over the top and not to dominating with in the story.
If you are looking for a story with action and a mystery to solve with the strong silent type for a hero, you should totally check out Money Man. What I thought was going to be a basic office romance gave me so much more. The pace of story line was great and very plot driven. Alice was not your typical simpering heroine; she is just as interested in getting to the bottom of her problem and asking questions even when she shouldn’t. This is the first book by Nancy Herkness that I have read. It was wonderful and I will absolutely be reading her other works.
This book is so bad. I didn’t enjoy any of it. The characters are boring, dumb and the dialogue is stilted and sounds like a first time writer trying to write dialogue.
It’s trying to be both a romance and a thriller without doing either well. The romance is boring without much development. They drop hints about motivation without it having any real pay off. The sex scenes aren’t even that good. The vocabulary used really speaks to the age of the author (or at least that’s how it felt to me, I read some and then looked up the author and noticed her age). Just a random sentence to explain a behavior later, done without finesse. The thriller is so dumb and boring. There is no real sense of danger. No real problems that aren’t almost IMMEDIATELY solved. I knew there would be conversations about accounting since both of the main characters are accountants but Jesus it’s boring.
I just really didn’t enjoy this at all. I had to listen to it half way through because I couldn’t force myself to read it.
It’s trying to be both a romance and a thriller without doing either well. The romance is boring without much development. They drop hints about motivation without it having any real pay off. The sex scenes aren’t even that good. The vocabulary used really speaks to the age of the author (or at least that’s how it felt to me, I read some and then looked up the author and noticed her age). Just a random sentence to explain a behavior later, done without finesse. The thriller is so dumb and boring. There is no real sense of danger. No real problems that aren’t almost IMMEDIATELY solved. I knew there would be conversations about accounting since both of the main characters are accountants but Jesus it’s boring.
I just really didn’t enjoy this at all. I had to listen to it half way through because I couldn’t force myself to read it.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
What I thought would be a typical romance book took me by surprise. For a story between two accountants falling it love, there is quite an adventure. The author did a great job of making it adventurous without making it seem too out of place. It's a great read if your looking for a short book that's attention getting.