Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I wanted to love this book. I thought based on all the reviews that I absolutely would. I did not. The beginning is good, as if the writer wrote and rewrote it in order to submit it to publishers/agents. But it falls apart halfway through and becomes a very different kind of book. The tone was uneven, the writing choppy, the hero engages in a little workplace sexual harassment, and I didn't enjoy the second half nearly as much as the first half. All that being said, I would have given this book a higher rating (possibly three stars) if the author had not dropped an extremely important story line. The entire reason the hero and heroine can't be together in the second half of the book is that they're both vying for the same position of COO within their company. They're not the only two contenders; outside candidates will be brought in as well. The heroine decides that she will quit if the hero is made COO because she can't work under him. At first because she hates him; later because she's sort of dating him and can't figure out how to make the two things co-exist. A great deal of time is spent on the heroine preparing for this meeting; hiring a former coworker to help her design her presentation materials; she talks about it all the time and it is the obstacle keeping the main pairing apart. So you wait and wait and wait the entire book to find out who is going to get this job. The hero? The heroine? Somebody entirely different? The relationship is at a standstill as the two keep each other at arms' length as they wait to find out who gets the job. Then, at the end, the hero reveals that he's taken a position at a rival company so that the can keep dating the heroine. So then I expected the end to be their bosses telling them that the heroine got the job. Nope. We never find out. After all the trials and hardships and it being the MAIN THING keeping them apart, we're never ever told if the heroine gets the job (and the author refuses to answer the question on social media). This book is not finished. You can't introduce something and make such a big deal of it, have it be the primary obstacle and then just let it fade into oblivion like that. It was poorly done. I won't be reading this author again.