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3 stars! Spoiler free review!
On my journey to reading more diverse, I happened across this book in my used book store and noticed it was also a BOTM book, so decided to pick it up. The audiobook was already ready for check out, so I listened to it too. The narrator was amazing! Sadly, can’t say the story as a whole blew me away.
What I liked:
Female friendships! Though they met under unlikely circumstances, they support and trust each other to keep it real. They’re also all individually strong in their career fields and badass.
Samiah as a main character is such an inspiration. She’s hardworking. She’s brilliant. She’s strong willed and minded. Not to mention her work directly affects underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM. AND SHE MENTORS. I love me a good mentor and people who support pipelines into fields that lack URMs.
The actual plot kept me more interested than the romance. I wanted to get to the bottom of whatever Daniel was undercover for.
What I didn’t like:
The romance (aka what was supposed to be a major selling point for the book) was lacking, and this is where a lot of my stars are dropped.
Daniel and Samiah have some tension, they have some angst, but their romance stops there for me. If this were real life, I don’t think their cute-office-crushes would have blossomed into much more? I just didn’t feel the emotions and love and want the way the author likely intended.
Daniel’s undercover plot leads to the twist / “hurdle” the couple has to overcome and that was extremely predictable and underwhelming.
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