When one of the men, who she overheard on a call during his first week at work asking the boss to reassign him to any team but hers, tries to later step in to help her with planning this party she's been tasked with (since he has past experience and she has none), and she 'hates' him, she accepts it as her only choice. No one else speaks up at meetings to defend her, even those she thought might be on her side, so in order to keep her position and for women's rights, she smiles, takes it, and works harder and longer hours than any of the men. Catalina, or Cat to her friends, has worked in a large engineering company in a pretty high-up supervisory position for several years since coming to the USA, and some of the 'old boys club' still has a problem with that - continuing to make those snide, misogynistic comments and assigning tasks 'because you're the attractive option' and knowing how to plan a party must be something that a woman knows how to do. This one absolutely did! I truly loved the enemies to lovers storyline, the workplace romance trope, and that it was very reminiscent of The Hating Game - I kept seeing that book and movie as I read through this (it's not that plot at all, but it's got hints of it throughout, of Lucy and Joshua's little games and rivalry, and how Joshua didn't actually hate Lucy from the start, she just thought he did - similar thing here). but sometimes those widely loved books don't live up to the hype (for me).

And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.Ī top 2022 read - a brilliant debut novel!Īmazing - absolutely a contender for my top book of the year! This was stunningly fantastic! I knew going in that this one had rave reviews by practically everyone out there in the Bookstagram / Good Reads community, as well as critical reviews (and newspapers, etc.). She’d rather refuse never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man.īut Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool.Įnter Aaron Blackford-her tall, handsome, condescending colleague-who surprisingly offers to step in. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. Now everyone she knows-including her ex and his fiancée-will be there and eager to meet him. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiraled out of control. A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author).Ĭatalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding.

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