All's Fair in Love and Business

Written by Jennifer Peel

Narrated by Stefanie Kay

Scarlett Armstrong and Kane Hudson are both in the running to become the next CEO of Armstrong Labs. Both are out for blood, but could it end in love?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9781666608502

Jennifer Peel

Jennifer Peel is a USA Today bestselling author. She grew up wanting to be something more realistic—like the first female president—but when that didn’t work out, she started writing. Now after publishing several award-winning and bestselling novels, she’s addicted to typing and chocolate. When she’s not glued to her laptop and a bag of Dove dark chocolates, she loves spending time with her family, making daily Target runs, reading, and pretending she can do Zumba.

Reviews for All's Fair in Love and Business

[SerendipityReads · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Maaaan......I really wanted to like this book. I really tried to like this book. I kept BELIEVING it would get better. I kept TRYING to suspend disbelief enough to believe in this couple.

*The hero was...likable? I guess? Admirable? I guess? I did like how he built the h up, and respected her innocence. But I just never really understood what he saw in her, because the author just did NOT present her as an attractive person.....not even an unconsciously attractive one.

*The heroine at least started showing a little care about her appearance, but she was just ridiculously awkward and naive for a 22 year old. And then when she came back EIGHT FREAKING YEARS LATER and acted just as awkward and naive as ever.....well.....it was just silly. The author literally had her SQUEAKING and EEKING multiple times every chapter. Look, I LOVE an adorably awkward heroine, and I was a super-innocent late-bloomer too, but.....this was a whole other level of unrealistic.

*And can we talk about that eight years?! He was already way older than her, but he stayed stuck on her until he was nearly 40, never trying to reach out to her again, and never moving on with anyone else?! It was just....stupid. Even if it had just been four years, or something, I could have bought it, but.....

*The narration was okay. Female only, and her "man voice" kept distracting me, especially since the author had her moaning, "SCAAARLETTTT!" over and over all through the book.

*I found myself wishing that this book had been less romcom and more taboo.....like, I think it would have been overall more successful if it had been more spicy in playing up the "stepbrother" and "older man" tropes.

*All in all I found myself caring way more about Augie and and Naomi than I did the leads, and THEY had a pretty unrealistic love story too!