Queen B’s Decree: Hot Desk had a cute premise but was fairly predictable (except for one major scene/crisis). Alice has been dying to get back to the office after working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but discovers she’s now sharing a desk with her enemy/crush Jamie.
Their friendship begins through post-it notes and emails and it was sweet and adorable. It was a little hard being in Alice’s head. She was incredibly insecure, a pushover, and heavily attached to things. I found it hard to believe the romantic progression of her relationship with Jamie when not long ago she was still hung up on her controlling ex-boyfriend.
While I was proud of her for setting boundaries and learning to live without “things” and knickknacks, it turned Hot Desk into a long and meandering story.
While Jamie seemed like a great character, I still don’t really trust in their relationship. It went from “dislike” to “jk, just pretending I didn’t like you” to “I’ll wait 1000 years for you” and it just didn’t work for me.
Light and easy read without much substance.
Book: Hot Desk by Zara Stoneley
Series: standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Hotness: mild salsa
Plot Devices/Tropes: enemies-to-lovers