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.
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What I thought about Not in Love
Rue and Eli start out as frenemies as the company Rue works for is about
to get new funders.I found this idea of the story an interesting one,
as these characters are attracted to each other from the beginning,
before the details and motivations of one side are revealed
As
for the romance, I really liked how this one started, at least when I
figured out the voices in the narrative. But somewhere along the way I
became less interested in these characters that had intrigued me at the
start. Eli seemed like a good guy, but some of his thinking turned me
off, especially the amount of time he brings up his ex. Especially when
his thoughts at meeting Rue were so very strong and significant. IDK,
your mileage may vary as they say.
It should be noted that Not
in Love is billed as more of an erotic romance rather than a rom-com.
There is physical attraction and quite a bit of sex happening, but it
didn't always hit the mark for this reader. I did find myself skimming
some of these scenes, especially since I was really looking for how
these characters felt about each other. I did like Rue -- she was quirky
and socially awkward outside of her group and yet had a sense of humor
that was sarcastic and funny. I did love the way Eli and Rue meet via
the app.
Overall, I did like the characters although I wished for
a more well defined arc of their growth, which was sort of muddled here
and sometimes slowed things down too much for me. I had mixed feelings
about Eli and I wasn't sure that I really liked him or not. There is
also a good cast of secondary characters on both sides of the story.
There are some hits and some misses for me in Not in Love which is why I
am rating this 3 stars.
About the Author
My favorite thing in the world is to explore traditional romance tropes—and to picture how they’ll play out in academic settings.
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