In the market for a hot tip? Here’s one.Don’t bang your best friend’s little sister. Especially when she’s an investigative journalist and your company is the target of her latest exposé.Unfortunately I’ve got a hard-on for high-risk bets, and I’m more than eager to invest my considerable stock holdings in Ellie Seyfried’s… ahem… glorious assets.Friends with fringe benefits is a sweet deal, but … with fringe benefits is a sweet deal, but it’s not long before I’m falling harder than the post-bubble Nasdaq, hooked on Ellie’s sweet smile and determination to make the world a better place.
There’s only one problem…
When it comes to risking my money, I’ve mastered every trick in the book. But how the hell do I risk my heart?
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I’m one puff piece away from tearing up my journalism degree and hurling my laptop into the Hudson River. So when I smell a juicy story brewing at my brother’s Wall Street investment firm, I’ll do whatever it takes to get my scoop.
One clever disguise later, I’m deep undercover as the firm’s newest broker, simultaneously gathering intel and spouting off stock tips like a boss.
Go me, right?
Sure, it sounds good on paper, but there’s a catch: The actual boss.
Chief Executive Panty-melter Jack Holt is cocky. Infuriating. And one smoldering look has me ready to violate every rule in the employee handbook.
Thank God my assignment has an expiration date. Because falling for my brother’s best friend and business partner is a lose-lose proposition. Right?
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Like A Boss is a standalone novel by Lili Valente and Sylvia Pierce. I have had the pleasure of reading books by both of these very talented authors so I knew it was going to be a treat to have them writing one together. A delicious, fun, and unexpected treat.
Jack needed a broker. Ellie needed a cover. They both needed a way to make a change.
Ellie needed this story. She was willing to do whatever it took to get the scoop. She was tired of writing puff pieces. She wanted a real story. One that mattered. That was why she was at her brother’s investment company. To get the ins and out of the company’s hiring policies. To write an article about the company and their way of making practices equal for men and women. Only…that is not completely what she found. She knew her brother and his best friend and partner, Jack Holt felt it was important as well. But when you are on top, you don’t always see the bottom…
She was in. She was doing this. She knew Jack want one hundred percent on board with her plan but he believes in her. That was why he was on her side. It was also why he was keeping her secrets. What he was having an issue with was keeping his hands and mouth to himself. He wanted her. He knows she is off-limits but being around her, made him want her even more. And not just in an sexual way either. She inspired him. To be a better person.
She has always had a crush on Jack. She always felt like an awkward mess when he was near. He was sophisticated. She was a hot mess. He was dressed in three piece suits. She wore wrinkled clothes. He worked on the top floor while she worked right next to her refrigerator. But he never made her feel like less. Especially now when he looked at her like he had to kiss her. This was a dream but could they go there? She was writing a story about his company. He was her brother’s best friend.
I read this book in one sitting. I had to know what was going to happen next with these two. They made me laugh, tear up, and get hot and bothered. It wasn’t just all about that though. The story within story is important. Equal rights in the workplace.
Overall…it was a wonderful ride that had an important message. It was blended in perfectly with a fun and sexy romance.
Quotes:
A man who kisses like the world’s about to end, is amazing in a crisis, and is serious about making sure I’m fed? Be still my beating heart…
“I’ve got an idea. Fewer clothes, fewer interruptions from the grammar police, and more time for coming our brains out.”
“I’ve had over a decade of practice. I’m an expert.”
This was my first time reading something from both these authors, but it won’t be my last. Great characters and great story line. It was a quick amusing read.
4.5 Stars
I loved this book but I’m fast becoming a fan of anything Lili Valente writes!! It had all the favorite things! The drama, the comedy, the romance, and most importantly the hot and steamy parts. 😉 lol But most of all this book had a very important and wonderful message behind it. And it will definitely make a lot of sense to us women and even though we’ve made a lot of strides in the issue we still have problems. Ellie is a character and I absolutely love her and her craziness to get what she wants any way she can get it. Jack is just so supportive and so yummy and can’t be much more perfect. I love most of the secondary characters and wouldn’t mind seeing them have a book. I would definitely recommend this book.
Just Okay
2.5 Stars
I usually love Lili Valente’s books, so I was looking forward to this one. Eleanor Seyfried is a reporter looking to do an expose on her families boutique investment company. Her brother Ian and his best friend Jack run the place. Eleanor finds out that there are all sorts of injustices happening to women at the company, even though Ian and Jack are great guys trying to do the right thing. While Ian is out of town, Eleanor decides to go undercover as a man at the investment firm. Here is where I have problems with this book. First, why would any newspaper worth their salt be okay with a reporter with an obvious conflict of interest (her family owns this company), write an expose? And why would her brother be okay with her writing an expose on his own company? Also, Eleanor is supposed to be 5’4” and slender, how would she look convincing as a man? Couldn’t they have this character a bit taller? Eleanor was also annoyingly preachy about all of the poor injustices that the women at this company suffered. The only thing that kept me reading was Jack. Great character, the perfect book boyfriend.
This book was perfection. First of all, it was co-written by one of my favorite authors, Lili Valente and narrated by my all time fave narrators, Sebastian York and Andy Ardnt. I’ve never written anything by Sylvia Pierce but I sure am planning on changing that. Like a Boss had everything I love in a contemporary romance, it had chemistry, passion, hot, sexy and hilarious characters with chemistry; however this book had so much more. The plot was original and it brought up some very important issues about inequality and discrimination in the workplace between female and males.
Ellie was a journalist working undercover at her brother’s financial firm. Jack, her brother’s partner at the firm and long time friend of Ellie and her brother was left with the task of looking our for Ellie while she completed her investigation for her article. Jack and Ellie were so damn funny. The shit they got into was like no other, but Jack was willing to put himself at risk because he believed in Ellie. There were parts in this audio book that had me laughing out loud. I seriously have to get a physical copy so I can annotate my favorite parts and sentences.
“If a mug-or freelance journalist-goes unwashed in the privacy of her tiny Queens apartment, does she smell? I think not.”
It always amazes me how two authors came come together to right one book and it is so seamless that you can’t tell who wrote what. That is EXACTLY what Lili Valente and Sylvia Pierce did with “Like a Boss”.
This is a bit of a gender bender in that Ellie goes undercover as a man at her brother’s business to explore how far companies have come with regards to equal opportunities. This is “not your mother’s Wall Street” was supposed to be a breeze because her brother and his best friend Jack run a company that is so forward thinking, they must be treating everyone fairly. Jack (holy smokes he his H.O.T.) sees through “Eric” right away and agrees to help prove his company is as advanced as he says it is.
Told in a dual point of view, this story has a bit of it everything. Intrigue, mystery, romance, friendship and most of all … Well you need to read it because I’m not going to give everything away.
I absolutely recommend this book and these authors.
4.5 Star Review of Like A Boss By Sylvia Pierce & Lili Valente
This book was a great read and I thoroughly enjoyed Like A Boss. Sylvia Pierce is a new author to me and one I will be checking out further. I have read a couple of books from Lili Valente and I love her style of writing. Not only were the main characters entertaining but so were the secondary characters and I was engrossed from the start.
What happens when friends becomes lovers? Jack Holt has been attracted to his best friend and business partners’ sister Ellie Seyfried for a long time and unbeknownst to him the attraction is mutual.
Ellie goes undercover in their firm to investigate gender equality in the company.; finding way more than she bargains for she stumbles upon an issue that could bring the firm to their knees.
Complications arise when the attraction between Jack and Ellie becomes too much to ignore, what will happen when their relationship is discovered, will Ian understand and what about their colleagues?
The chemistry between Jack and Ellie was so hot it was scotching and the banter between the two off them lead to many laugh out loud moments.
Like a boss was a fun, quick read that underlines the issue of gender equality in the work place and one I believe was handled extremely well.
Like a Boss by Sylvia Pierce & Lili Valente is a laugh out loud, sexy romance told in dual POV. A standalone story complete with a happily ever after.
Ellie is on a mission to get a story on the gender inequalities and is infiltrating her brother and his best friends finance company to do it. Finding leads that she knows go deeper than she has been able to follow as the boss’ sister, she decides to go undercover – as a man. Let the hilarity and awkward situations ensue.
Jack is interviewing the dregs if the recent finance graduates wondering exactly what his hiring manager is playing at. The last minute interviewee that shows up in his office, however, seems to be exactly what the company needs. There is just something very familiar about him…
Hilarious, emotional, raw, and sexy. I absolutely adored this writing duo’s style and sass. Enjoy!