Unsuspected Love by L.S. Pullen
18+ Contains Adult Content
Unsuspected love follows Nick and Maxine. The country is about to go in to lockdown, and she is called into work by her grumpy boss for one more team meeting before hand. Being the last two to leave, they get in the lift together where they end up getting stuck. While waiting for the repair man to come, the two talk and realise that their attraction to one another isn’t one sided.
•Boss x Employee •Grumpy x Sunshine •He falls first & hard •Spicy •Forced Proximity •UK Setting
•Explicit language •Explicit sexual content •Forced Proximity
This was another book that was recommended to me on threads for the boss x employee trope that I was craving. It was a self recommendation by L.S. Pullen, which I am totally fine with self-recs.
So this book is set in lockdown, Nick calls a team meeting just as lockdown is announced to tell his staff they will be working from home. He could have done this via zoom but wanted to see Maxine one last time before the restrictions were put in place. Then they end up getting stuck in the lift together, which was a rather fun scene. Following that they spend lockdown together at Nick’s house. Nick fell for Maxine first, hard and fast. They shared one kiss at the Christmas party the year before, but then acted like it never happened but neither of them forgot. Nick comes on strong, essentially moving Maxine into his place for lockdown, then having a bitch fit when they are returning to work and Maxine doesn’t want everyone at work to know.
The book is fairly fast paced, with months flying by between chapters. It is set in the UK, which was nice. Not many books I read are set in the UK and obviously I lived through the lockdown here so it made sense to me the protocols etc.
This book did have a lot of spice, these two were doing the horizontal tango every chapter it felt like. Which I mean good for them, but it was a bit much for me. I love spice, if a book isn’t spicy I’m like meh would of been better with them bonking, but when there is a lot of smut it gets a bit boring and I skim read through the smut scenes. Which happened here.
The writing style was okay, other than a lot of smut it was easy to read and flowed well. Other than months between chapters, that didn’t indicate that months had past it wasn’t a bad writing style.
I didn’t feel any connection to either character to be honest. I didn’t hate them, but I also didn’t really care for them. They were okay, not very rememberable.
Overall thoughts:
It was a quick, easy read that scratched a bit of an itch I had for boss x employee. I enjoyed many aspects in the book, but found the characters to be forgettable and the book to have too much smut.
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