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A review by rogue_lurker
The Boss of Her: Office Romance Novellas by M. Ullrich, Aurora Rey, Julie Cannon
3.5 Overall
This is a collection of three very different novellas - all linked by the idea of office romance. I'm just going to suspend my internal ethicist and go with the flow - it's fiction and it for fun.
Aurora Rey's offering takes place in New Orleans at a law firm and focuses on second chance romance for two women how had a brief (PG Rated) encounter in law school some years before. This one is focused on the relationship and there isn't much going on otherwise - but this is a novella and works well as its focus is on the rekindling of romance and the discovery that the characters aren't quite so polar opposite.
Julie Cannon's novella is more erotica and wasn't my cup of tea . It is an oddly structured novella where one part is told from one character's perspective, the second is a repeat of those events from the other's POV and then the last part is combined POV. The dynamic between Riley and Jess was just - odd and a bit unsettling. Normally, I have really enjoyed Cannon's books but this one just didn't work for me.
M Ullrich's story is probably my favourite of the three. This is the ice queen melts trope and actually has probably the most direct boss/employee relationship (intern reporting directly to the boss). I think in reality, Luca should have quit long before she managed to make an impression on Steph - but this is a romance. Even with the ice queen persona, I liked Stephanie quite a bit and actually found that she was better developed than the easier to like/relate to Luca. Ullrich writes a good romance and this one worked very well.
This is a collection of three very different novellas - all linked by the idea of office romance. I'm just going to suspend my internal ethicist and go with the flow - it's fiction and it for fun.
Aurora Rey's offering takes place in New Orleans at a law firm and focuses on second chance romance for two women how had a brief (PG Rated) encounter in law school some years before. This one is focused on the relationship and there isn't much going on otherwise - but this is a novella and works well as its focus is on the rekindling of romance and the discovery that the characters aren't quite so polar opposite.
Julie Cannon's novella is more erotica and wasn't my cup of tea . It is an oddly structured novella where one part is told from one character's perspective, the second is a repeat of those events from the other's POV and then the last part is combined POV. The dynamic between Riley and Jess was just - odd and a bit unsettling. Normally, I have really enjoyed Cannon's books but this one just didn't work for me.
M Ullrich's story is probably my favourite of the three. This is the ice queen melts trope and actually has probably the most direct boss/employee relationship (intern reporting directly to the boss). I think in reality, Luca should have quit long before she managed to make an impression on Steph - but this is a romance. Even with the ice queen persona, I liked Stephanie quite a bit and actually found that she was better developed than the easier to like/relate to Luca. Ullrich writes a good romance and this one worked very well.