Review Can’t Touch This by Marley Gibson
For Vanessa Virtue, all work and no play leads straight to temptation, one that’s too hot to touch…or resist.
A well-deserved work promotion opens up a thrilling world that Vanessa could only long for until now: exotic travel, a corporate credit card, and the opportunity to ogle hunk-and-a-half Kyle Nettles. Unfortunately, their employer has a strict “no dating within the company” policy. So instead of succumbing to her feelings, Vanessa hones her flirtations on the competition: a rock star sales exec who works for their rival company.
Rory Ellery has dreamy blue eyes and a kiss that threatens to obliterate Vanessa’s taboo crush on Kyle…and just might provide a great chance for spying on the competition. That is, unless Rory is actually spying on her. When Vanessa goes digging for dirt with Rory, what she uncovers is scandal—and risks losing her job completely. To make things right with her employer, she’ll have to enlist Kyle’s help. But to make things right with her soul, is she willing to risk her job and her security in order to open her heart to Kyle.
I’m Sure this was supposed to be a great novel. I am sure it was. But I can’t, couldn’t finish it. I couldn’t get past how insipid the whole story seemed. Girl who doesn’t think she’s pretty gets new promotion at work, but she sleeps with the hot guy she meets at a convention who is actually just after her company secrets, the new manager at work is hot and she likes him, and he starts to help her get over and get through the whole “I slept with a guy who stole company secrets thing”.
Its not my favorite Trope. In fact I hate it. I always think that the girl could have and should have seen it coming and especially in this story, she should have since she was planning on doing the same exact thing, sleep with the competition to get some of their secrets.
And in this day and age who doesn’t lock their work laptop, I mean seriously. If you had any idea that you were going to sleep with your competition you would have locked your laptop and when you woke up and saw said laptop on when you hadn’t worked on it for 2 days, well, you would damn sure go into damage control mode instead of letting it slide and gabbing with your girlfriend.
I just hate this idea and this plot devise. It always seems to me to be too easy. Too easy and simple to manufacture tension and it just turns me off.
Overall Rating: DNF
