Love Interest – Book Review

A sparkling adversaries-to-lovers romcom set at a magazine publisher in Manhattan. When Casey and Alex are forced into proximity, they soon realize falling for each other is just as much of a risk and as it is a reward.

Casey Maitland has always preferred the reliability of numbers, despite growing up the daughter of two artistic souls. Now a twenty-four-year-old finance expert working in Manhattan, Casey wonders if the project manager opening at her company – magazine powerhouse LC Publications – is a sign from the universe to pursue a career with a little more sparkle. That is, until she’s passed over for the job in favor of the board chairman’s son.

Alex Harrison is handsome, Harvard-educated, and enigmatic. Everybody loves him – except for Casey. But when the two are thrown on the same project, they both have something to prove. For Casey, it’s getting tapped for a transfer to the London office and fulfilling her dreams of travelling. For Alex, it’s successfully launching a brand that will impress his distant father.

As work meetings turn into after hours, Casey and Alex are drawn to each other again and again, but neither can avoid the messy secrets and corporate intrigue threatening to tear them apart. What they discover about their workplace might change everything – including the dreams each of them is chasing.

Love interest is a Workplace Romance set in Manhattan New York–Casey Maitland and Alex Harrison work in the same publishing company. Casey is eying for a promotion but at the same time, she wanted to get transferred to the London office, where her mother was originally from. But when the promotion went to Alex Harrison, the handsome and charming Harvard graduate, Casey was devastated and was determined to hate him. However, as they were both asked to work together for a segment, Casey realizes that Alex wasn’t really the type of person she imagined him to be and soon start to fall in love with him.

If you like complete romcoms shows, then Love Interest is such thing. This is not enemies to lovers story, and I like how the story turned out to be. Both Alex and Casey acted more like realistic adults and most of all the secondary characters in the book were all likable. There were some twists and turns, particularly relating to their workplace and the sizzling chemistry between Alex and Casey. Although the first part of the book was slightly boring, it became interesting as the story progressed. I also like the multi-cultural perspective of the story–the fact that Alex, one of the main characters in the story is biracial–Korean-American and that diversity is present in the book was actually a plus sign to me.

This was a typical romance book with a predictable happy ending but overall, I enjoyed this book and couldn’t wait to read more from this author–worth four stars.