Office Mistakes by Beth Hale – Review by Angela Hayes

Office Mistakes by Beth Hale
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 Stars

Office Mistakes is a Christmas office romance by Beth Hale. I hadn’t read anything by Ms. Hale before beginning this book, so I was intrigued by what I might find. I thought the premise of the story was good, but after finishing it I felt that the story really needed to be a little longer in order to have more depth and development.
This being a novella really didn’t allow time for me to connect with the characters, so I didn’t invest in them and the story the way I would have liked. I felt that there could have been less time spent on ‘setting the scene’, describing gifts, dinner, rooms etc- as some of that time could have been spent on developing and driving the story, as well as giving the characters more depth.
I also thought that some of the language used in describing the sex scenes was a little old fashioned, and to me, there was an awkwardness about them. I felt like they were so short and undescriptive, compared to the rest of the story, that they may as well be left out, close the door completely so-to-speak, better putting that time into building the connection and romance part of the story instead. Descriptions like, “Charlie bucked as she took him into the warm cave of her mouth”, didn’t seem sexy or erotic to me- warm cave? Sorry, but I thought there could have been a thousand other, more descriptive and more enticing and sexy words to be used.
But then, it could just be me. I am not an author, and I do appreciate the time, effort, heart, and soul that an author puts into their work- but to be honest, I felt that the author missed an opportunity to make this a really stellar and entirely memorable read. Instead, this story fell short for me.

Sorry, I really did want to love this book much more than I did.

Thank you, Beth Hale.

Reviewed by @angelahayes

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