Review: What Was the Point?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
When I first started reading the Cosmo Red-Hot reads last year I was a big fan. They were fun, sexy, smart, and quick. But for the last few months I just have not been impressed by the offerings and Crossing the Line is another disappointment.The thing about Crossing the Line is that nothing really happens. I guess that isn't true, things happen: Caite's female boss has complications with her pregnancy and has to work from home which leaves Caite and her male boss, Jamison, as the only two people in the office aside from the receptionist. That leaves Caite and Jamison pretty much alone and they start in on a boring, ambiguous office romance.This might sound silly but in my mind the story would have worked better if this was a bigger office. With really only the two of them in there all day there wasn't really anything illicit about their relationship, no risk of getting caught or anything.On the night they first get together Caite kind of seduces Jackson, but it was one of the strangest, not really hot seduction scenes I've ever read. In their tryst Caite is the more dominant one, which is fine, I don't have a problem with that, my problem was how ambiguous it was in the story. I get that this is the first time either Caite or Jamison has really played these roles so there's some self-discovery happening, but the book never went into much detail on it. I don't know if that was because of the length or just because of poor story and character development, but it wasn't there.In the end it comes down to the fact that I didn't know these characters at all, I didn't know their histories or thoughts or motivations and I just didn't care care what happened to them. Nothing about this book held my interest, made me laugh, or excited me in any way.I received an electronic review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions are obviously my own.