Review: what-could-have-been.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
When reading the reviews for Crossing the Line looks like overall people either love it or hate it. Sadly, I think I fell somewhere towards the bottom. This book is a Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Harlequin, so my general expectations were low. The story is simple. Boss and co-worker start a casual fling that goes deeper. Yes, it’s been done, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want it done again and again.Jamison is Caite’s boss and they work together doing promotions and PR work for celebrities. I was kind of annoyed that Jamison didn’t like Caite right away. He didn’t even really notice her. What I love about an office romance is when they pine for each other from a distance. It makes the build up sweeter. In this case It came out of nowhere and didn’t feel as believable to me. Then when they finally hook up it’s not really the emotional connection I was looking for either. I wanted them to fight with their feelings more and make it known (even internally) how much they cared for the other person… but it didn’t happen.The sex was a great idea, but again not really well played out. Caite ends up topping Jamison and he allows her to be kind of a Domme to him. At one point I was so excited because she cuffs him and makes him kneel, but then it gets interrupted and that’s it. I didn’t need them to go all hard core and build a St. Andrews cross as a weekend project…. but I wanted something. At the end of the book I found my self sort of skimming over the sex because it was such a let down. Oh and she keeps calling his d!ck a “pr!ck.” I don’t know if this is a cultural thing, but the word prick is in NO way hot to me.This book is only 80 pages, but it took me a couple of days to get through it. I liked the idea of the story well enough. I was just disappointed in the final product. The fact that I didn’t highlight anything hot kind of shocks me as well. This was supposed to be hot quick read that turned into a drawn out what-could-have-been.