Nothing Personal by Karina Halle | REVIEW!!!

 

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Synopsis:

Nova Lane is having the worst week possible. Her latest relationship ended while on her much-needed vacation, then upon her first day back at work, she learns that her beloved boss has quit-- and despite having worked so hard for it, she's not being considered for his position.

Who is being considered for the position is none other than Kessler Rocha. Her ex-coworker and ex-lover, Kessler's the man who broke her heart five years earlier and the reason she moved thousands of miles away, switch jobs, and create numerous voodoo dolls in Kessler's (very burly, very handsome) liking. Yup. Worst week ever.

New in town and on her turf, Kessler promises he's not the same man he was-- and considering he's now a single father to a precocious toddler, he's telling the truth. But he's still an arrogant, devilish and dangerously intelligent man who's taking over the position Nova feels she deserves. The fact that he's gotten even more sexy over the years doesn't help either.

Now Nova and Kessler have the choice to let bygones be bygones, or fight with each other every chance they get, with unresolved sexual tension only adding fuel to the flames, creating a fire that might just burn down the whole office.

In the corporate world they say it's just business, nothing personal. Nova and Kessler are about to show just how personal things can get.


About the Author: 

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Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of The Pact, Love, In English, The Artists Trilogy, Dirty Angels and over 20 other wild and romantic reads. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

Halle is represented by Root Literary and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster and Hachette in North America and in the UK.

My Review:

Wow! I devoured this book. I read it in less than three days... when that happens to me, that says a lot about the book because I am a slow reader; so reading this so fast, it sucked me in! This is a great enemies-to-lovers! If you love that trope like me, then you are golden, you will love this book.

Kessler, I can appreciate his name, a former NHL Hockey player, has had a complete change in plans in life. He lost his NHL career to an injury, then Hunter comes into his life. Things are definitely not as he planned. Nova has the worst luck with men, then her boss, a man, screws her over just as bad as her last boyfriend. So when her ex walks in to take the job she has been working years for, she sees red and takes her anger out on him. It is funny and Kessler, I kind of felt bad for him because he was just trying to gain his footing after life threw him a curve ball.


After breaking the ice, in ways that Nova would have liked to avoid but couldn't, they actually put differences aside and realize that they actually work well together. I love the chemistry they have. At times you want to be mad at Kessler but after a certain point, you realize that things that happened in the past weren't entirely his fault and there are just things that were out of both their control.


This book flows really nicely and I don't doubt there are some out there that could read this in one sitting. Now, if I don't give a book five stars, I always explain why. Nova did annoy me at times, almost for the same reason almost every female character does. She took things a little too personal and took things out of Kessler when things were just out of his control as they were hers. She pushed him away when he was proving himself to her.


Other than that, I loved this book and there are some serious laugh out loud moments. Kessler and Nova find themselves in some moments that have you bursting out in laughter. So I am warning you, be careful if you plan on reading this anywhere in public, you have been warned.

4 Owls