What can I say? I’m a work in progress. I never planned on being 39 and still a virgin. Life got in the way and before I knew it I was almost 40 with a cherry that had yet to be popped. So, I pulled up my big girl panties and made a bucket list to accomplish before the big 4-0. Easy peasy, right? It only took three bottles of wine, the internet, and a dating site to flip my world on its side. … world on its side. What came next would consist of part disaster and part greatest thing to ever happen to me.
My new life consisted of plenty of men and plenty of dates. None of those were with the one man I wanted more than anything. He was untouchable. With his heated looks and seductive voice, I was in trouble. My restraint, willpower, and a non-fraternization policy were the only things keeping us apart. None of it mattered to him. He was determined to have me and damn the consequences.
With men, awkward dates, a geriatric wedding, naughty needle-pointing, and a sexy as sin boss the last year of my thirties had the potential to be one I would never forget.
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Not Quite What I Was Lead to Believe
Sigh! I am getting very frustrated by books that don’t tell you that they contain things that might be offensive to some people. When I saw this book at one of my favorite book review sites, I liked the sweet cover, and the description itself sounded interesting. What I wasn’t expecting was a book loaded with profanity and some bizarre, shall we say, sensual aspects. While I don’t mind the $exy part in a romance, I just don’t like profanity in any book at all. I really think the author should say something in the book’s description so those who don’t want books with that can bypass it. The book has a fun premise. The characters are quirky and quite humorous on occasion, even if somewhat crude. Our heroine has a great set of gal pals who encouraged her to live life more fully. Some of what went on with all the dates was fun; some had an “ick” factor for me, which combined with the profanity weakened what could have been a good book. All in all, this book did not work for me quite as I hoped.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
This storyline could definitely be made into a comedy. The book has a cast of characters that will keep you in stitches with every turn of the page. I adored Teagan and Greyson together. Kudos to the author for bringing us a relatable story that we can connect to in one way or another.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I received an ARC from the author thru Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving my review. This is the first book I have read by Jackie. It is a funny office romance involving Teagan and Grayson. She is a 39 year old virgin looking to spread her wings. He works for the same business which has polices against office romance. When you throw in some well meaning best friends and online dating things can get a little crazy. I enjoyed the storyline along with all its characters.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This book was everything I needed right now! I was hooked from the moment I started reading! I didnt want to put it down! I was laughing so hard through most of it. The Shenanigans that go down in this book will have you laughing out loud. The only thing that kept me from giving it five stars was that it did seem to drag a little bit towards the end. Overall though this is a definite must read!!!
Received an arc for an honest review
This was a cute light hearted read and that me laugh quite a bit at Teagans dating mishaps. I enjoyed Teagan and Graysons banter I just wish this was in dual POV, which is how I prefer my stories.
This started out really hilarious! I was intrigued on how the story’s going to progress. One, her friends are a bunch of crazies, they’re so funny yet each one of them has different personalities. It’s always so fun reading their interactions. Two, the ladies in the retirement home. They’re a real hoot! Teagan’s friends and a bunch of horny grannies, they’re explosive! They’re a real scene stealer!
Then, there’s Teagan’s new hot and sexy boss. I loved him. I loved their chemistry! And the fact that he wanted her and was willing to break the rules to be with her, had me swooning!
Totally recommended if you want a funny, sweet rom-com that will have you laughing out loud!
This is the first book by Jackie Paxson that I have read. I’m positive that it will not be the last.
This book is hilarious. The bad dates were so over the top bad. I mean who could have that many bad ones in such a short amount of time?
Teagan, that’s who!
Teagan and Grayson are great together. Their chemistry is off the charts. But he’s her boss. She fights it for as long as she can.
This is a fantastic read.
This was my first book by this author, and I have to say I very much enjoyed it. It was funny and just a good happy care free read.
Teagan is a 39year old virgin and has made a promise to herself that by her next birthday she will do something totally adventurous. However when her birthday has come and gone, her best friends open up a dating profile for her. But that doesn’t go according to plan and she can’t help but wonder what is wrong her.
On the other side she is busy with a work project and the man she is working closely with, there might be a little bit of a spark. But with a job promotion on the line she cannot go there. But maybe Teagan is standing in the way of her own happiness, or is it just too much of a risk to take with a promotion on the line.
Like I said, it was a fun, happy emotional read, and it was just what I needed after the heavy read I had before this. Definitely looking out for more on this author.
I was totally sold by the blurb and I couldn’t wait to read the story of Teagan and how she ended living awkward and weird dates, after a wild evening with her crazy besties turning I’m her life into almost a reality show. I was intrigued by that woman who was still a virgin at almost forty, a badass at work but having bad luck in love.
I guess I would have crawled under my bed and never left it if I was in her situation. But still she took it like a champ’ and tried to face the music. Not only she had to deal with it but falling for her sexy boss was definitely not expected.I appreciated the witty banter and colorful supportive characters and a special mention to her grams and her crew, who added such hilarious moments into her journey.
Things first, making her bucket list come true and you might guess a real disaster in the making.Be prepared for laugh out loud moments and also scary ones, adding in the mix that swoony hero, Grayson, she tried so hard to push away.
Grayson was determined and went for what he wanted, putting her needs first but being too easily conciliatory to me.I didn’t feel the connection immediately and as the title said, it was a constant work in progress on so many levels.I admired her tenacity of staying professional and not mixing business with pleasure, she was independent and at ease with her body. Her no filter was funny, saying sometimes her thoughts out loud leaving people speechless. She was endearing and enthusiastic, but couldn’t see the real thing.
It just took time to appreciate the main characters. Their chemistry took awhile to really bloom, as she navigated through this experience.However I felt like it lacked transitions and dragged out at times. Some parts were more outweighed by other characters who had stolen the show, and definitely had more action than Teagan and Grayson.I wanted see more dialogue between Teagan and Grayson.
Their interactions were amazing and I wished for more development, more of them, smoking hot and tender at once.
Don’t forget the swoony parts… I loved it.
It was a work in progress and I liked it a lot but it felt unfinished to me in the end.
Otherwise the concept was pretty original and fun.
My first book from the author and it didn’t disappoint! After reading the blurb I decided that it was the kind of book I wanted and needed to read, a fun and emotional story. How I laugh reading this book, with every situation Teagan got in I loved her more!
Teagan turned 39 years old and with her 3 best friends Nomi, Ember and Olivia, she decided to change her life and did a bucket list to fulfill before turning 40! For topic on the list? Lost her virginity. With the help of her friends Teagan start going to blind dates to achieve her goals. Only problem is: the one who she really likes is her boss and the company has a no fraternization police.
Grayson is Teagan’s boss at a marketing company, and after meeting her, he decided to work with her in a project. It was hot and cute and I swoon like hell with how he started to fall in love with her. Everything he did to help, protect and support her only made me fall for him too. And he did all of that knowing that she was scared and wanted to succeed at her job before get together with him.
Her blind dates were horrible! Seriously, I never read so many bad ones, but I could stop laughing with the magician, the doctor or the teacher! The situations were so out of the blue that I couldn’t believe how she was still there at the date!
The best part of the book are with Grams and her friend in retirement home. I could only imagine that they are the mirror of the 4 best friends in the future. I laugh a lot with Teagan calling them as retired gangsters! Grams was so cute and I loved how she raised Teagan, and her wedding with Grayson’s grandfather? Amazing!
I loved their shenanigans and it made me do my own bucket list to fulfill before turning 40 (I still have some years ahead – not a lot!)! I wish I could have read more about their future, the ending was nice but as an epilogue crazy I wanted more to truly believe in their HEA.
RATING: 4.5/5
Not having read any other books by the author before, I didn’t know what to expect before reading A Work in Progress. Needless to say, this office romance was filled with quirky scenes, lots of entertaining moments and a romance to leave wanting for more.
Teagen Brown is a thirty-nine year old junior marketing associate working for Price & Cook Advertising. While her career has been promising, her love life hasn’t. She has had a lot of dates, yet she has never met anyone special enough to lose her virginity to. But this year is going to be different, Teagen has created a bucket list and losing her virginity is her number one priority. But after a few bottles of wine and the internet, she ends up becoming famous on a dating site. Now she has an overwhelming amount of men following her after she puts in her profile that she wants to lose her virginity. That will soon follow a series of events that will change her life forever. To make things worse she has to work her attractive boss who has a plan of his own. It’s the last year before she turns forty and Teagan wants to make the most it even if it means letting go of the man that she truly wants.
I had fun reading A Work In Progress, not only was Teagan relatable but the rest of the characters as well. I loved her grandmother, she was funny and blunt. It was a nice touch in the story and made it that much more interesting to read. Grayson was completely lovable, he is protective towards Teagan and they work together really well. The dates she goes on were entertaining and a mess. But that’s what it ultimately takes for her to see what she truly wants. All in all, if you’re looking for a quirky office romance than I would highly recommend checking out this book. I’m looking forward to reading more from the author in the future. 🙂
**I voluntarily read an early copy of this title in exchange for an honest review**
A Work in Progress is a fun read that I could see as a rom com on the big screen. I liked that Teagan was older than your typical romance heroine. It made her more relatable now that I am not in my twenties anymore.
After she doesn’t accomplish the goals she sets on her 39th birthday, her friends set out to help her. What follows is a series of dates, none of them with the guy she really wants. Grayson is a coworker who she really likes, but a no fraternization policy stands in their way.
This was my first read by this author, and I found it to be entertaining. I loved that she had a close group of girlfriends that were a big part of the story, too. I definitely want to check out more of her books!
Thank you to the author for providing an ARC for an honest review.
I’ll start this review by saying the concept of the story was funny as hell. We have BFF’s who are trying to do just about everything humanly possible for Teagan to find someone to pop her cherry and if love comes from it so much better.
But as you can imagine she needs to go and “kiss” a few frogs before she saw what was right in front of her.
Now I have to say that I did have a few eye-rolls. But I think those were more it’s me not you kinda problem. I’m hoping this continues because I want to see Teagan put her friends through some of the things she went through.
All in all it was a good read and for my first book by this author I’m giving it a light 4* rating.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
3.5 ‘Could be better’ stars.
We’ve all probably read a few ‘I want to lose my V-card’ stories with girls aged mid to late twenties, and occasionally older, but this is the first one that I’ve read with a woman approaching 40.
Teagan is that woman and decided on the day she turned thirty-nine that enough was enough and the V-card had to go! Her three friends agreed and a cataclysmic series of dates followed. Each of her friends got to set up a date for her, and each one was worse than the last.
Meanwhile, Teagan’s new, super sexy boss has set his eyes on her. She’s reticent as there is a no-fraternization policy in place. So, what can they do?
Be friends?
Hah!!
Teagan is so set on pushing Grayson away, while he’s doing his best to help her get a promotion and also get in her panties. He’s determined and knows what he wants.
So is Teagan.
This was pretty much the premise of the story, a lot of back and forth but not really a ton of sassy banter or real chemistry. I really wanted to like this book, the blurb certainly set it up as being a fun, laugh out loud story, but for me, it kind of fell flat. It dragged in places, the funniest parts were supplied by Teagan’s elderly gramma and her fellow retirement home residents. They had a few hi-jinks.
A Work In Progress is my first read by Jackie Paxson. It was good, but sadly, for me, not great.
A Work In Progress is the first book by Jackie Paxson that I have read but I will be on the look out to see what she comes up with next.
The blurb definitely catches the attention of the reader with the promise of a daring ‘before 40’ to do list, disastrous dates and a hot boss.
On the whole, that’s exactly what we get. There are times however where the continuity of the story lacks a ‘seamless’ transition which impacts the fluidity of Teagan’s journey.
There are laugh out loud moments, especially from the residents of the retirement home and Teagan’s boss is definitely hot, so it will certainly brighten up a reader’s dreary day.
All in all, not a bad introduction to a new author that I’ll undoubtedly meet again.
I absolutely adored this book! I thought it was absolutely laught out loud funny. Teagan has just turned 39, and is determined to lose her V card before her 40th birthday, and Reagan’s friends are determined to help. When Teagan’s friend Ember realizes after Teagan’s birthday that she has done absolutely nothing to accomplish the task she posts Teagan’s profile on a dating app, while she and Teagan are polishing off a bottle of wine. Though Teagan deleted the post, the dating app company singles her post out and uses it for advertising. Due to the wording in the post, and the play her add got through company advertising, to save face, Teagan is forced to go through with all of her dates, and publish those dates in the paper of another of her friends, a journalist. Olivia, the Journalist proposed that Teagan make a bucket list, including her losing her virginity, and that she select one item from her bucket list to complete with each date, in working to have a relationship since Teagan is obviously not a one night stand kind of girl. Olivia would create an article for each date, as well as interview Teagan on how the date went. Then there would be a final article indicating who Teagan had chosen to have a relationship with. Teagan hasn’t lost her virginity before her 39th birthday because she has always buried herself in her job, but she definitely has the worst luck in dating! It was these dates that made me laugh so hard, my husband asked what I was reading. Jackie Paxon has created another enjoyable and funny read, with great character development that will carry you from beginning to end! I received an advanced copy of this book and this is my honest review.
This book had so much going on with meddling from best friends, grandparents and an old lady gang. That retirement home is definitely one for the books with the shenanigans those geriatrics were involved in lol!! The things these people found themselves saying and doing were hilarious. Grayson and Teagan fought their feelings until they couldn’t and the connection was nuclear !! Wasn’t a fan of Ember and definitely wouldn’t have someone so pushy, nosey and loud in my circle. She and Edna both should have several seats.
I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
A funny romcom with a quirky female lead.
This is a feel-good office romance with a female lead that is older (almost 40) and still a virgin. The laughs are there, as is the heart.
Teagan’s quest to lose her v-card before she turns 40 is full of twists and turns – like bad dates, a boss at work that has her fanning herself, and her grandma’s friends. She’s easy to relate to, quirky, and she is totally unapologetic and embraces her quirks! And she sure knows how to roll with the punches. Greyson is a great match for her, and a solid book boyfriend.
If you’re looking for some fun laughs, scoop this up!
On her 39th birthday, Teagan vows by her 40th birthday she will be adventurous, take risks in life and finally lose her virginity. Her three best friends are game to help her putting herself out there in the dating scene and picking her dates for her. Grayson, the new VP of Teagan’s marketing firm, is everything she wants and dreams about. Unfortunately, the agency has a strict no fraternization policy. What’s a girl to do?
The blurb for this novel grabbed and kept my interest. However, the novel overall did not. Based on the book blurb, I expected dating and everyday hijinks and hysterics. I was ready for it. This novel started off really slow in my opinion and the dating hijinks missed the mark with me. The first blind date fiasco came close to what I was wanting, but the rest of the blind dates were blah. For me the chemistry between Teagan and Grayson was not there. There seemed to be no flirting or steamy hot connection between them. It was vanilla. This is one of the few books that I have read where the main female character has more than two best friends. It got confusing for me because they all four were always together and they all seemed to be different versions of the same person. Like a Barbie for different professions. At about halfway through the novel I was done wit them giving each other the middle finger and calling each other “bitch.” I was constantly reminding myself these were professional women in their late thirties. I guess there are some women and their close friends that act in a similar manner, but those friends are not for me. The best parts of the novel were any scenes that featured the feisty retirement home characters. They were a hoot and naughty, especially Edna. I can see myself like Edna at her age. I wanted to hear more about them versus Grayson and Teagan. I think there was a few lines in the novel about the senior citizens getting more action than Teagan.
I love the novel’s concept—an almost 40-year-old virgin trying to lose her virginity and find love at the same time. I am a big book dialogue person, because I think conversations can turn a bland moment into something special. I wish this author had used the dialogue to spice up the tender moments between Grayson and Teagan. Overall, the storyline was okay, but it is not a novel I would re-read.
This was a fantastic laugh out loud romance! I loved it!
Teagan was about to turn 40 and was still a virgin. She was determined to rid herself of her virginity before her birthday. Her journey through many disastrous dates to find her man was very entertaining, painful and hilarious! I loved the chemistry between Grayson and Teagan! They were so great together! Will they take a chance on each other? I loved the Naughty Knitting Grandma’s! They put such a smile on my face! If you love a hilarious romantic comedy then this books for you!