Love Interest

Author: Clare Gilmore
Title: Love Interest
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 10/10/2023

Read Dates: 09/06/2023- 09/10/2023
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟💫

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Single POV featuring Casey, a finance analyst and Alex, a new project manager who got a job Casey was hoping for. They start as workplace enemies, with Casey blaming nepotism for Alex’s career success, but come to be friends and eventually more.

I liked this book but did find that it seemed to drag a lot. While it was filled with fun little sidebars and references, it’s the type of thing that will feel dated when fads change. That said, while I didn’t really relate to the characters (which made it hard for me to lose myself in the story) I get the feeling that they ARE very relatable and well written, and I’m just not the target demographic.

All in all I enjoyed the book and the writing style. I’ll definitely look for more from this author in the future!

A sparkling debut co-worker adversaries-to-lovers rom-com set at a fictional Conde Nast-style company.

Casey Maitland has always preferred the reliability of numbers, despite growing up the daughter of two artistic souls. Now a twenty-four-year-old finance expert working in Manhattan, Casey wonders if the project manager opening at her company – magazine powerhouse LC Publications – is a sign from the universe to pursue a career with a little more sparkle. That is, until she’s passed over for the job in favor of the board chairman’s son.

Alex Harrison is handsome, Harvard-educated, and enigmatic. Everybody loves him – except for Casey. But when the two are thrown on the same project, they both have something to prove. For Casey, it’s getting tapped for a transfer to the London office and fulfilling her dreams of travelling. For Alex, it’s successfully launching a brand that will impress his distant father.

As work meetings turn into after hours, Casey and Alex are drawn to each other again and again, but neither can avoid the messy secrets and corporate intrigue threatening to tear them apart. What they discover about their own company might change everything – including the dreams each of them is chasing.