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devansbooklife's review
4.0
I found Caught Up in Us to be a bewithching, sweet, and fun story. I really enjoyed the characters and the time line. It felt realistic and not rushed.
treparker73's review against another edition
3.0
Cute Read
I loved the detail of their businesses. Katy seemed like a great businesswoman and the love story was cute and had a great ending.
I loved the detail of their businesses. Katy seemed like a great businesswoman and the love story was cute and had a great ending.
mlcreads's review against another edition
3.0
This is a sweet and sexy second chance romance. Bryan and Kat have great banter and there is lots of phone sex. There romance is forbidden both when they first meet and again in their second meeting, but they overcome the obstacles and finally get their happy ending.
maggieweygand's review against another edition
3.0
I really enjoyed this story. I finally felt like things didn't just happen. I like that there was an actual flow to the story and the love story itself.
krissyranae's review against another edition
2.0
Good grief. Why spend most of a book setting up conflict if you're just going to resolve it in a page with zero fanfare only to hurriedly create more conflict so that you have some sort of tension in the rest of the book? Pick one! Write a different book with the other.
jeannethinks's review against another edition
3.0
Second chance with a twist. Throw in the taboo of mentor/protege relationship and you get an lot of longing and waiting.
cnapierkowski's review against another edition
3.0
Ended up skimming through the second half. The romance had a slow burn and I just wasn't in the mood for that.
elenajohansen's review against another edition
2.0
First up: formatting/editing issues. There was a noticeable lack of quotation marks and/or italics where appropriate--song titles should be in quotes (and there were a lot of them), and statements made within the narrative but not in dialogue should be either in quotes or italicized (ie, this outfit shouted "I'm looking to get laid", or this outfit shouted I'm looking to get laid.) I was surprised to find such a systemic issue from a major author.
So, setting that aside, this was a second-chance/workplace romance, and I think it succeeded at the office shenanigans while failing spectacularly at the second-chance aspect. We do get a little bit of the backstory from five years ago, but the relationship ended when the guy ghosted the girl--no contact or explanation whatsoever--and then they're thrown together in a mentor/student relationship as part of one of her business classes.
All we hear is that she loved him so much and she was so heartbroken and they had such a connection--but five years have passed, and they hadn't known each other all that well before, since it was just a summer romance, plus the age difference was borderline inappropriate at 17 and 23--even though our heroine takes pains to tell us there was only fooling around, no real sex, I'm still not fully on board with that gap.
In the end, I just don't see the instant reconnection as anything but lust (which it is, and how) and that makes the story fall flat.
So, setting that aside, this was a second-chance/workplace romance, and I think it succeeded at the office shenanigans while failing spectacularly at the second-chance aspect. We do get a little bit of the backstory from five years ago, but the relationship ended when the guy ghosted the girl--no contact or explanation whatsoever--and then they're thrown together in a mentor/student relationship as part of one of her business classes.
All we hear is that she loved him so much and she was so heartbroken and they had such a connection--but five years have passed, and they hadn't known each other all that well before, since it was just a summer romance, plus the age difference was borderline inappropriate at 17 and 23--even though our heroine takes pains to tell us there was only fooling around, no real sex, I'm still not fully on board with that gap.
In the end, I just don't see the instant reconnection as anything but lust (which it is, and how) and that makes the story fall flat.