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Undercover Bromance
Lyssa Kay Adams
320 pages | Published by Berkley
Liv is trying to work her way up in her career in the culinary world, but unfortunately has a nightmare boss - who she catches harassing a young employee - and is promptly fired. Liv wants to try and take her ex-boss down and expose him as the creep that he his, but it means working with Mack - founder of the Bromance Book Club and builder of a Nashville nightclub empire. While working together, they begin to rely on each other, as they're both looking for someone to lean on.
Usually, I make little notes to myself as I read so I know what to talk about - well sorry but this time I read so fast that I didn't even bother so this might not be as well-thought-out as I'd like to be.
The sexual harassment storyline was really interesting here. I won't claim to know what it is to experience that, not having gone through it myself. There was a lot of great conversation about victim-blaming, judgment, and the male role in feminism.
Liv had a lot to learn - while obviously it was a good thing to try and seek justice for the women that had been hurt, she had to look at her motivation for doing so and really learn to empathize. I also liked the look at the Good Guy Hero that Mack was trying to be - and why that character isn't the perfect person it might read as in a romance novel.
Like the previous book, I was happy to have both perspectives. Liv and Mack both grow in a lot of ways through the story and it's nice to see everything happen. What I really appreciate about Adam's stories is that nothing is ever the fault of just one character - it feels so real that both have to grow to make things work, rather than one person changing themselves.
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