Review: Definitely not Carlyle's best work.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2012
Well, it's on Kindle for kinda cheap and by Liz Carlyle.  I thought I couldn't miss since Ms Carlyle is a favorite HR writer.  Turns out that sometimes you're better off holding onto your money.This novella is fromTea for Two, a 2003 book with two stories, this one by Carlyle and one by Cathy Maxwell.  I had not read them when the book came out so long ago and see that I had not really missed anything.This is not representative of Carlyle's work.  She's usually much better than this.  Part of the reason is the novella format.  It's too short to develop a good story.  But in addition I did not like either hero or heroine.  The hero comes off at the beginning of the story as a dirty-talking sleazebag (although we are eventually supposed to feel for him because he's a tortured soul) and the heroine is for some reason turned on by his sophomoric overtures and has to work hard to resist him.Unfortunately, her resistance is very shortlived and so was my patience with the novella.