Review: Thirty Day Boyfriend by Whitney G
/About the Book
I should've never agreed to this arrangement...
Thirty days ago, my boss--Mr. Wolf of Wall Street--came to me with an offer I couldn't refuse: Sign my name on the dotted line and pretend to be his fiancée for one month. If I agreed, he would let me out of my employment contract with a "very generous" severance package.
The rules were pretty simple: No intimate kissing, no actual sex. Just pretend to love each other for the press, even though I've secretly wanted to knock that sexy smirk off his face since the first day we met.
I definitely didn't need to think twice about this. I signed my name and started counting down the seconds to when I would never have to deal with his special brand of a**-holery again.
Review
I feel as if I have read this book a thousand times. The rude boss needs his assistant to pose as his fiancé or girlfriend to close a big deal. The assistant is the only one who can handle the boss and gives everything she has into her job but she’s very unhappy and wants to quit. They enter this fake relationship, and then surprise! The boss secretly has been in love with his assistant for years and never told her. I’m quite fond of this trope; however, the trope has unfortunately been watered down to the same plot beats.
Thirty Day Boyfriend adds nothing new to this plot. The romance feels stale at times. There was no true connection to the characters, and the only thing believable between them was their attraction to each other. I would have preferred for the characters to be more fleshed out. Especially, Emily. She wanted so badly to be removed from her contract, but the writing didn’t provide insight into what she wanted next.
Final Thoughts
Thirty Day Boyfriend adds nothing new to the boss/secretary trope. It feels like it was written using a template. There are no substances to this story, and neither characters nor the romance are memorable.
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