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My Boss's Stalker: Spoiler It's Not Me by Adrian J. Smith
4.0
Stars: 4 Stars 
Format: Audiobook 
Narrator: Quinn Riley
Series: MY Boss’s Stalker Book 1
Steam Level: Steamy

CW: stalking, violence, blood

I read this for the I Heart Sapphic 2025 Reading Challenge for the prompt Coming Out. 

Yay a new series to start by Adrian J. Smith to read! I am slowly but surely making my way through her backlist. 

Quick Thoughts: 
  • The whole book is from Zoe’s POV
  • With the subheading “Spoiler It’s Not Me” I thought it would be a lighter book but it’s not. So very not  
  • I wanted to wring the neck of that detective they talked to. What a supreme jerk 
  • Loved that Gwen doesn’t have an ounce of shame about what revs up her engine 
  • Even I, the most oblivious person ever, would not have missed Gwen’s blatant flirting. Come on Zoe, get it together 
  • The reveal of the stalker wasn’t a surprise but how it was done and the reasoning for everything was. Everything slotted into place very creepily 
  • No third act breakup!
  • That company needs to go under and all its executives ruined. They were class A jerks
  • That being said, I appreciated that the HR complaint was taken seriously though that was greatly tempered by the feeling that it was only because it was filed against Gwen 
  • I LOVED that the big event with the stalker wasn’t the end of the book. There was a lot of story afterwards and there was no glossing over the trauma that whole thing had on both of their lives
  • The reason I didn’t give this four stars is that in the beginning there were bits that were repetitive, like Zoe having worked for Gwen for three years and that she has a crush on her. It got to the point where I began to wonder if maybe there were two different beginnings and the author forgot to edit out some of the lines
  • Quinn Riley is amazing 

Overall I did enjoy this book but didn’t love it. I think I was thrown by the fact it was very serious when I wasn’t expecting it and it felt like a step back, execution wise, from  the “When the Past Finds You” series. I’m still excited to see how the rest of this series stacks up against it though.