The last thing I want is to share my beautiful office with an uptight, unfriendly new English professor. I don’t care if he’s incredibly hot. He’s still the worst office mate in the world. We’re stuck together for a year, and that might be too long for me to resist discovering what’s hiding beneath his buttoned-up appearance. Office Mate is the second book in the Milford College series, novellas … the Milford College series, novellas about the faculty and staff of a small liberal arts college.
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Noelle Adams does it again. Office Mate is a fun, hot, story of two people with their own insecurities finding each other. Loved it.
I was drawn in from the start. Evan so prim and so polite. Beck was so lively. But both insecure in their own way.
Great characters. Good read. Thank you.
3.5 stars.
Well, this was fun.
Here we have Evan and Beck, they are forced to share an office, something Beck HATES, since it’s her office that’s doing the sharing and she loves it just the way it is.
Evan is super serious and just completely unreadable to Beck. She’s the opposite, she loves laugh and talk and Evan simply doesn’t. So these two don’t have the best of starts, lol.
I liked these two, but particularly Beck, I loved her energy and how she helped Evan come out of his shell and loosen up a bit. He was great too, but he had a lot of demons from his childhood to overcome (what an awful family!).
I loved these two together, they really fit each other. There were some ups and downs, some miscommunications, but all in all a fun read.
*Thank you to the author for providing a copy for which I’m giving my honest opinion*
I loved these quirky characters! Beck was fun-loving, strong and loyal ~ Evan was polite, quiet and shy ~ but when the two of them get together, LOOK-OUT! This was the perfect getting ready to go back to school read. Noelle always seems to deliver just what I need in a quick story with lots of heart.
This is the second book of the Milford College series and it is great! Beck is an exuberant history teacher at Milford’s and has a big office of her own. Evan is the pompous new teacher of the English Department, very academic and serious and he has not office of his own to stay. The College decides to ask for Beck to share her office space until another teacher retires and Evan can go on his own way.
She is refractory at first but slowly Evan begin to conquer her with his somewhat brooding aloof way. As a pretty intelligent guy it is funny to read Evan trying to woo Beck by asking questions about her thesis of two years ago and the funnier part that she is clueless of his moves.
Sometimes he is so withdrawn that he is a difficult person to read and we understand Beck frustation at times, but this is a funny emotional love story about two people who start clueless about each other and soon develop a deep relationship. The part about Lord of the Rings is so great too! I loved this book!
Wow! This is exactly what I look for in a novella! Hot and steamy, angsty yet sweet, and character development out the wazoo! I loved everything about this story!
Beck is irritated that she is going to have to share her office with a new professor so she’s not in the best of moods when she walks in and finds he’s already arranged some of her things. Trying to make it work, she attempts to get to know him but he seems to be a man of few words and she feels like she’s getting nowhere. Despite his serious vibes and unsmiling nature, she finds herself attracted to him. When she finally yields to temptation she opens the door to a relationship filled with dirty talk and smexy times that blow her mind. Unfortunately, it appears that Evan doesn’t want more and that just isn’t going to work for her.
This was so much more than what it appears to be on the surface. Beck has been through enough life changes to learn to accept herself as who and what she is and she refuses to allow anyone to make her feel less. I loved that she fought hard to hold fast to her belief in herself. Evan is secretive about his past, including his family. He holds himself back from her to the detriment of their relationship but when we learn why he does so, my heart broke for him.
For a novella, Evan and Beck were very well developed as was their relationship. This felt like a longer book in that everything was well rounded, nothing felt rushed, there was no over the top reactions, and it all felt very real. I love when a plotline can pull me in with its realism without losing the magic of the romance, and this one did exactly that. With some wonderful scenes regarding The Lord of the Rings and the sweetest epilogue, this book left me grinning from ear to ear.