Review: Love Interest by Clare Gilmore

Love Interest by Clare Gilmore

Blurb from Goodreads:

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.

My Review:
This was fun, flirty and had one of the most satisfying endings that I've read recently. Had I not read an exceptional book just prior to reading this one, it may have rated even higher.  That said, this is still a solid enemies to lovers romance, which I would certainly recommend especially if you liked The Hating Game.  Casey is a great character but I also found all of the characters in the book to be multi-dimensional and written so well.  Definitely give this one a read!!

Love Interest comes out next week on October 10, 2023, and you can purchase HERE!  I really liked this one!

If you're going to touch a woman in the Me Too era, you might as well make it worth the headline?

The funny part is that my gut reaction is to come up with something to say next that won't make him uncomfortable. What would I do otherwise? Cause a scene? Claim harassment by a man who likely helped pay for the open bar I'm drinking at because he tapped my hip and clavicle? I hate myself a little for the passivity of it, but in professional situations like this, with my literal livelihood at stake, I revert to a scared little girl who has internalized that under no circumstances should she ruffle affluent society's feathers.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.