My new boss likes rules, but there’s one nobody dares to break…No touching his banana. Seriously. The guy is like a potassium addict. Of course, I touched it. If you want to get technical, I actually put it in my mouth. I chewed it up, too… I even swallowed.I know. Bad, bad, girl.Then I saw him, and believe it or not, choking on a guy’s banana does not make the best first impression. I should … the best first impression.
I should backtrack a little here. Before I ever touched a billionaire’s banana, I got my first real assignment as a business reporter. This wasn’t the same old bottom-of-the-barrel assignment I always got. I wasn’t going to interview a garbage man about his favorite routes or write a piece on how picking up dog poop from people’s yards is the next big thing.
Nope. None of the above, thank you very much.
This was my big break. My chance to prove I wasn’t a bumbling, clumsy, accident-prone walking disaster. I was infiltrating Galleon Enterprises to follow up on suspicions of corruption.
Cue the James Bond music.
I could do this. All I had to do was land the position as an intern and nail my interview with Bruce Chamberson.
Forget the fact that he looked like somebody carved him out of liquid female desire, then sprinkled on some “makes men question their sexuality” for good measure. I needed to make this work. No accidents. No disasters. No clumsiness. All I needed to do was hold it together for less than an hour.
Fast forward to the conference room before the interview, and that’s where you would find me with a banana in my hand. A banana that literally had his name on it in big, black sharpie. It was a few seconds later when he walked in and caught me yellow-handed. A few seconds after that was when he hired me.
Yeah. I know. It didn’t seem like a good sign to me, either.
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Natasha is a walking, talking disaster. She’s a complete klutz who never makes it to work on time and has deeply disappointed her boss to the point where he thinks of her as a failure. So when he gives her an assignment to uncover the secrets of one billionaire named Bruce Chamberson of Galleon Enterprises, he expects her to fail. When she takes an undercover job as an intern at Galleon, she never suspects the man she’s supposed to write an exposé on will come to mean so much to her.
Bruce is the complete opposite of sweet, clumsy Natasha. He’s regimented and robotic, thanks to his past, and he’s closed off to emotions of any kind. So when a sweet but sassy intern flusters him by taking HIS banana on her first day, he’s surprised to find he’s starting to feel things. Their banter as they engage in a battle of wits is hilarious! Funny and snarky as they try to ignore their obvious attraction to each other. He wants her to quit, and she knows she can’t, if she wants to keep her real job. Can the billionaire and the intern who secretly wants to be a real journalist ever get their opposite selves together? Or will her big secret be too much of an obstacle?
If you’re in the mood for something short but zany, sweet and steamy, His Banana should be on your TBR list. It’s not deep or epic, but it is seriously readable and yummy.
Omg what a hilarious book. I definitely was not expecting the way the book turned out. The chemistry between Natasha and Bruce was off the charts. One of the few good rom-coms I’ve read. It’s actually really good. One of Penelope’s best books.
Absolutely loved His Banana!! Couldn’t put it down. It was a great, fun story. Loved Bruce and Natasha! They were perfect for each other. Such an enjoyable read.
Excellent hilarious romance
I loved this great romance.
The story is very well written and is hilarious during the 2/3 of the book as the hero Bruce, seeks how to resign Natasha. Their characters and their exchanges are excellent comic (mostly knowing that Bruce is execrable most of the story). As for their meeting and the banana scene : it’s an excellent idea of the author.
Natasha is a journalist and a clumsy, ambulant disaster who walks around with her bad luck. Her editor assigns her an undercover report as a intern with Bruce Chamberson, a marketing mogul. But just arrived, while the name of Bruce is written to the marker on his food, Natacha literally eats his banana. Now, Bruce is slightly psychorigid, so he’s the opposite of Natasha. Leaving a relationship in which he was injured, he added to his rules not to succumb to a relationship, but the nerve of Natasha intrigues and enambles him to the point that he hires her to harass her with chores, like buying a banana every day, being his assistant night and day, his driver, traveling with him, and all that as an intern, without being paid, until she cracks and resigns.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
Tripping down the road to love
Natasha is a clumsy, accident-prone expert in self-embarrassment. She’s also sharp, well-read, a capable journalist, and does not know the meaning of the word ‘quit.’ So when her disdainful editor assigns her to go undercover and dig up the dirt on marketing wunderkind Bruce, said editor lets her know just how low his expectations for her are. Nat’s reaction – seize the opportunity! She manages to get hired on at Bruce’s company and becomes his unpaid personal intern (translate: slave, flunky, butt-of-all-jokes). She succeeds in this miraculous feat courtesy of a banana, which she bites into without noticing his name scrawled all over the peel in Sharpie ink Yep, she bit the boss’s banana… And with that running double-entendre, plus a few more, plus a pun or two and more snark than the water-cooler clique can dish up, Penelope Bloom turns a misfit intern and her OCD boss into the funniest, most endearing odd couple in the contemporary romance genre. I laughed my socks off! And the banana-induced shenanigans are pretty hot too (wink wink).
I thank the author for the giggles and the love; I thank Booksprout for the ARC; and this enthusiastic review is actually voluntary and uncompensated.
I am voluntarily writing this review for this book I received through Booksprout’s ARC
Natasha was always bumbling around it’s like she couldn’t get things right. Going as far as looking at the lottery numbers she thought she won but wrong week. Finally her boss told her he would give a good assignments if she could bring in the story about Galleon Enterprises. Bruce was the CEO he extremely rigid about his life but his twin brother ran mostly on his on time. Bruce called him to get him up and come to work as they were interviewing new interns. Later Bruce goes to the lunchroom to get his banana which he keep there with his name on it. Natasha never realized it was his banana and she hadn’t had lunch. Bruce comes into the lunch room as he sees Natasha munching on his banana. The employees in there backed up and waited for all hell to break but instead Bruce hired Natasha. Bruce told her she has to bring him a banana a day by 10:30am. Of course, Natasha was late and was chastised by Bruce but at the same time he gave all the tools to be his
assistant. Natasha finally meets William while he came into see Bruce.
Bruce tells her that part of her job would be driving him around. Natasha
thought that would help her get information on him. Bruce had Natasha come with him to a client meeting for dinner. Things went a little south once she got drunk but at the same time she knew information that he didn’t know about. Things start to go back to as normal as it can be Natasha still stumbles around. There is more going on that meets the eye since Natasha and Bruce have gotten together. Twists, Turns, Forgiveness and love.
Whoever thought eating a man’s banana would lead to love?
This was hilarious! Penelope writes awesomely, awkward, hilarious senarios. And steamy, hot love scenes. This book was no exception. A secret identity. A man whose walls need tearing down. A fiesty, independant, stubborn heroine. Bruce and Natasha were fantabulous. A little boss and employee sparkage. And both of their brothers were goofs.
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