Book Review: Phishing for Love by Lara Martin

4⭐
Genre ~ contemporary romance
Setting ~ Brown Oaks (no clue where that is)
Publication date ~ February 1, 2024
Page Count ~ 327 (35 chapters +e)
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ small town, slow burn, grumpy/sunshine, enemies~ish to lovers, workplace romance, no steamage

My review:

Tess (28) works at a greeting card company that has hired Aaron as a cyber security consultant for 6 months. They don’t get off on the right foot because Tess can’t help clicking on adorable cat videos, which prove to be a scam and the whole reason Aaron is there in the first place.

Tess is sassy and not afraid to speak her mind. She had a wonderful relationship with her family and I especially loved her grandma and her beef with ‘the google’. Also, enjoyed her friendship with Sofia and Kenzie and I love what happened with them in the end. I do have to mention that Tess has a boyfriend for a good portion of the book who is a real tool. There is no cheating on her part, but I do wish she would have broken up with him sooner, so we could have had more on the budding relationship of our main characters.

I do love me a good grump and Aaron was a good one. He takes his job very seriously. He has a sad backstory and I didn’t like how he let his past affect the decisions he makes now, but all turns out well of course. He was really sweet when he wasn’t grumping.

Overall, I had a good time reading this. The banter is on point and the slow burning romance was cute to watch unfold. Looking forward to reading with Lara writes next.

Side note ~ I am so pleased we got to catch up with Nina and Lucas from All the Lost Pieces to see how their life has progressed.

*Thanks to the author for sending me a copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

erfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Katherine Center, Phishing for Love is a swoony, laugh-out-loud, enemies-to-lovers, workplace romance.

Phishing: When hackers send malicious emails designed to trick people into falling for a scam.

Phishing test: When organizations send deceptive emails to their own staff to test their response to phishing attacks.

It all started with a cat video.

A video that Tess Miller, a sassy and talented greeting card writer, shouldn’t have clicked on. But cat videos are her kryptonite. And how was she to know the video embedded in the email was a phishing test designed to take down the company she works for?

The infuriating man who tricked and humiliated her? Aaron Sinclair, cybersecurity consultant brought on by her paranoid boss to whip their company into peak security shape. A dark-haired man with a dark past, and an unrelenting thorn in her side.

Buried beneath their mutual animosity, however, is an attraction they both have reasons to fight. Thanks to Aaron, Tess’s boss has labeled her a high security risk and her professional reputation is at stake. A fierce battle of wits ensues as Tess uses every trick not to fall for Aaron’s random phishing tests.

With the end of Aaron’s six-month contract fast approaching, Tess is faced with the looming risk of losing not only her job but also her heart to the man who has tested her in every way possible.

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