I didn't love the initial setup of this book. It's not that I am not into workplace romances and obviously I knew that's what this was going in. However, our FMC Trishara is invited to go on a corporate retreat in Maui with a large group of fellow employees (she is an engineer at a large corporation that is mainly white cis male employees). She hasn't dated in a while due to past relationship trauma (specifically she dated a coworker previously and it didn't end well), but her friends are encouraging her to use the retreat to find someone to hook up with???? So she enters many interactions with coworkers from other offices whom she doesn't know kind of hunting for a hook up??? That just felt like an odd place to be looking for a hookup professionally, and also just with her past trauma. it just didn't make sense to me why she would use this corporate retreat for that reason. Therefore the beginning of this book was kind of annoying to read.

She ends up having to share a hotel room (honeymoon suite...one bed of course) with a co-worker she has animosity towards from her office who also happens to be the son of the company founder. No I would not call it enemies to lovers, that trope just doesn't belong in this setting imo. They're just co-workers who don't get along not mortal enemies. I wish we'd gotten a bit more showing (maybe in flashbacks?) to the competitiveness that fuels their seemingly mutual animosity having worked together for a couple years. We're told a little that they've butted heads on projects in the past, but it would've lended a bit more to the overall romance arc to be shown vs told this. I think it also doesn't help that this is single pov so you really don't know where the MMC is coming from until he opens up more later on.

Despite there being content warnings from the author (thank you!) for misogyny/sexism in the workplace - I just personally do not find reading about things I've experienced like this to be my preference. If I'm reading a romance for escapism I don't always wanna be brought back to corporate BS. That's MY preference. But I did appreciate the heads up going in. If you are sensitive to icky interactions with men in the workplace you might want to skip this one.

Ultimately the romance was pretty cute by the end, but nothing groundbreaking. I did like where both main characters end up professionally/life-wise by the end of the book. The spice was good though!! I felt like there was the perfect amount and it was written well! Also this narrator is very good, I've listened to a few books and that definitely helped the listenability of this book in parts when I was a tad frustrated.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance audio-copy of this book!