This is a refreshing change from a lot of these books. And as much as Célian is attracted to her looks, he is equally attracted to her brains and capabilities.
She is incredibly intelligent with a bloodhound’s ability to sniff out news.
He’s met his match in Jude, who for once in these types of books isn’t there in an assistant capacity, but as a junior reporter. He’s also compellingly broken, fighting against feelings he doesn’t believe he deserves to have, making his glacial control understandable. He is obviously smart, with incredible integrity, and we get to see him in action instead of just vague corporate meetings like with many other billionaire stories. I love their cocky arrogance, but too many of them cross that line into pure asshole or worse, controlling asshole.Ĭélian (which I now find the sexiest hero name) is both cocky and a billionaire (a trope I have no real love for) and yet, what saves him from becoming an asshole is that he is very good at his job as a news director and cares passionately about his company and his employees. While I can’t get enough of the enemies-to-lovers tropes, alphaholes are tricky creatures. When he looks at me from across the room, I see the glint in his eyes, and that makes us rivals.īut it’s my heart at stake, and I fear I’ll be raising the white flag. Heir to a stack of medical bills and a tattered couch. Now he’s staring me down like I’m the dirt under his Italian loafers, and I’m supposed to take it.īut the thing about being Judith “Jude” Humphry is I have nothing to lose. I left it with more than orgasms and a pleasant memory–namely, his wallet. I could have impressed him, if not for last month’s unforgettable one-night stand. Shen, comes a new standalone, enemies-to-lovers romance. So what was the verdict?įrom bestselling author L.J. Shen novel and while it had one of my favorite tropes, it also has one of the most full-on alphaholes I’ve read in a long time.
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