Author: Julia Wolf
Series: The Harder They Fall Series Book #3
Category: Contemporary Romance
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
"I did not have 'live with my boss' on this year's Bingo card. Then again, I didn't have 'have a baby' or 'go bankrupt,' yet boom - here I was." - Catherine
Man, I am such a sucker for a workplace romance. There's something about it that instantly makes me push 'read for free' on Kindle Unlimited. 'P.S. You're Intolerable' was no exception, I read this one in a single night. It wasn't perfect, but highly addicting and once the story got going, I couldn't put it down.
Talk about a series of bad decision-making, Catherine put herself in a bad situation that's for sure.
✅ Letting a guy friend convince you to sink your savings into a money pit of a fixer-upper
✅ Getting accidentally pregnant by said guy friend
✅ Keeping the baby when he talks you into it
✅Trusting him to project manage when he has no skin in the game
✅ Being surprised he walks
"Everything was fine. My world definitely wasn't crumbling around me. If I kept thinking that, maybe it would be true." - Catherine
Catherine put her trust in the wrong person and then kept making the same mistake when her friend was not reliable. Thankfully the girl is scrappy, and finally learned that she should be slow to trust. Her naivety and neediness made her not my favorite character but she was a good person and a good match for Eliot.
Her complete opposite in almost every way, Elliot is stoic and reserved, but observant in everything but how his words affect others. But as he allows himself to spend time with Catherine, he recognizes how cold he has been and tries to show her how much she has come to mean to him. By far he was one of those men whose actions speak more loudly than his words ever will.
This one is a slow-burn romance, but once the walls come down there was plenty of spice to go around. Elliot knows what he likes and Catherine is more than happy to let him lead. Their relationship outside of the physical stuff was solid as well. Characters who actually talk to one another and own up to reactions that stem from past wounds? Who knew it was possible?
"He demanded my pleasure like it was rightfully his. Like I owed it to him. If I'd been capable of solid though, I wouldn't have been surprised Elliot was this way in bed. It was just who he was in every avenue." - Catherine
This book was cruising to an easy five stars for this book review but the end was horribly rushed. In a mismatched turn of events, readers are forced to ingest a hurricane of drama that didn't need to be there. At 94%, events should be wrapping up not new elements crammed together. Still, highly recommend this workplace romance to everyone out there who likes a good boss-hole in their romance novel.
Tropes and Themes: Workplace Romance, Single Mother, Grumpy x Sunshine, Curvy FMC, Boss x PA, Breeding Kink, Slow Burn.
Blurb
My boss, Elliot Levy is intolerable, and I tell him so everyday…in the little notes I write and then hide in the back of my desk.
I can’t exactly say to his face that I’m convinced he’s a cyborg, considering I'm about to become a single mother and I really need to keep my job as his assistant.
Elliot never looks at me, so he doesn’t even notice I’m pregnant until I’m seven months along. The first thing he asks is if I’m planning to come back to work once I have the baby.
Not unexpected.
What is unexpected is Elliot coming to my rescue when I need a place to stay after my daughter is born. While living with him, I get to see a whole other side of him…especially when he walks around his house without a shirt on.
Which he does, ALL. THE. TIME.
I shouldn’t look, but I can’t help it. He’s gorgeous in a suit, but out of one? Devastating.
Elliot shows me he isn’t the heartless robot I once thought. It’s still terrifying to take a chance on him, even when he holds my baby like she’s precious to him, and he touches me like he’s been longing to for ages.
Now that he has me, he isn’t letting me go without a fight.
And Elliot Levy didn’t get where he is in business without learning a few underhanded tricks. What will he do to keep me? To keep us?
P.S. I think I’m falling for you.
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