Not in Love - bookrastinating.com

Paperback, 384 pages

english language

Published 2024 by Berkley.

ISBN:: 978-0-593-55042-7

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through - and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.

Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the …

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through - and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.

Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business - one that plays for keeps.

2 editions

KnitAFett reviewed Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Nothing fantastic, but not bad either.

3 stars

This is another one of her usual miscommunication tropes, but at least there's the excuse behind it of legal issues going on in the background, not just "hmmm if I don't tell them, things will never go wrong!" for no reason. I will give props for the audiobook because while there was some of both voice actors doing voices for the other gendered characters, they spoke all of their main character's line, even if it was in the other person's perspective. It helped to keep the main characters separated from the background.

There wasn't really anything new or interesting in this from the story line perspective, so I can't really say I would recommend it. Overall it was pretty unmemorable. Just a meh book. The spice was decent, though.

This is another one of her usual miscommunication tropes, but at least there's the excuse behind it of legal issues going on in the background, not just "hmmm if I don't tell them, things will never go wrong!" for no reason. I will give props for the audiobook because while there was some of both voice actors doing voices for the other gendered characters, they spoke all of their main character's line, even if it was in the other person's perspective. It helped to keep the main characters separated from the background.

There wasn't really anything new or interesting in this from the story line perspective, so I can't really say I would recommend it. Overall it was pretty unmemorable. Just a meh book. The spice was decent, though.

nasamuffin, book enjoyer reviewed Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Weird flex but OK

3 stars

Not sure how you can honestly be excited to write a book that romanticized a private equity firm in 2024. The male lead was pretty so-so, very physicality-focused and the domineering kink outside of the bedroom wasn't exactly for me. The sex scenes were good, but the plot was kinda meh.

Subjects

American literature