Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for the eArc of this book!
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for the complimentary audiobook!

This book is out now.

Listen. If Ali Hazelwood writes it, I will read it.

"Let me take you to dinner."
"Why?"
"Because. I haven't seen you in two weeks and -- I actually do like this. Being with you. You can tell me more stories. The awful secret ones. I'll listen and tell you mine."

There were things I really liked about this book but honestly the part that confused me the most was all the work/science stuff. I tried really hard to follow along with all the technical stuff but it just was lost on me. Luckily the romance of it all was just so good. I love how this was different in the sense that this was purely supposed to be a one time hookup but naturally circumstances happen and they end up being around each other way more than intended.

This is the first time Ali has dabbled into the dual POV (Rue being first person & Eli in third person) and Ms. Hazelwood if you are for whatever reason reading this, please continue to do so!!! She did such a great job with both characters and I felt like we got a healthy dose of each of them. Ali warns us in the beginning of the book that this is a erotic romance but I just felt like it was an extra spicy romance compared to her others. And boy does Ali know how to write a sex scene. WHEWWW!

Rue and Eli were just so hot together and I felt like their chemistry was believable to me. And I think because of their tension & secrecy with work and trying so hard to resist each other once they were working together made it all hotter. Eli was incredible smitten from the very beginning and I feel like he knew she was changing him. I love that Rue knew what she wanted and opened herself up to Eli. And Eli was just so laser focus on pleasing Rue and doing whatever it took to make him hers - "I like you when you laugh. I like you when you're serious. I like you all the damn time." I mean come on!

All the other stuff in between the romance was fine. I mostly just invested in the couple even though all that other stuff was important to the book and the plot of the story.

I paired my reading with the audio and I thought both narrators Callie Dalton and Jason Clarke were fantastic! I had done a little bit of dual narration in other romances but they were not like this one. This one was a true dual narration. It didn't matter which POV we were under, if the other person was speaking it was that narrator's voice. So it truly felt like you were listening to their dialogue. It took a bit to get used to as I'm so used to hearing the male do the female voice and vice versa but eventually it felt normal.

If you are a fan of steamy STEM romances, dual pov/narration, in a workplace setting - give this one a try!