Welcome to day three of the blog tour for the fabulous Camilla Isley’s new novel The Love Algorithm!
At 28, with a Ph.D under her belt and a meteoric rise to head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics, Reese feels her decision to put her career first has worked out pretty well for her. Sure, she doesn’t have many personal relationships to speak of, but she does love her team and they like her too.
So when she’s called to the Big Boss’s office and told she will be looking after his son while he does a rotation in her lab, she’s not thrilled that her hard work and achievements have boiled down to being a glorified babysitter – especially to a billionaire playboy with zero experience of mechanical engineering.
But then tall, blond Thomas walks into her office, and Reese realizes this assignment is going to be even harder than she thought. Because the CEO’s son is not only extraordinarily gorgeous, chiseled, and charming… he’s also on course to become her new boss one day, and so extraordinarily out of bounds. As the pair get to know each other, can Reese hold her nerve and her beliefs, or will she fall victim to the billionaire charm?
A gorgeously funny enemies-to-lovers, work-place rom com, perfect for fans of Sarah Adams, Lynn Painter and Jo Watson.
I’m on a bit of a run with Camilla Isley at the moment, and for good reason! She really knows how to write an enemies to lovers rom com!
Reese has worked hard to get to where she is, particularly given the fact that she is working in a male dominated industry. She loves her job and she loves the people she works with, so finding out that she is going to have to babysit the CEOs son, a billionaire playboy with zero experience in her field feels more than a little demeaning.
Thomas, the CEO’s billionaire playboy son is surprised to discover that he is expected to shadow the leads for each department in the company, as part of his progression towards taking over his father’s company. When he walks in on Reese getting changed in her office, he finds himself immediately attracted to a woman who he will eventually be expected to manage. Naturally, he is incredibly attractive, smart, and charming. He is exactly the kind of distraction that Reese does not need – she doesn’t want anything that could jeopardise her career.
This is the ideal enemies to lovers rom com. We have a beautiful, smart, career driven women and a handsome, charming man with bundles of sexual tension. They have such a great will they/won’t they relationship, and I love how the story places so much importance on Reese and her career – whilst there are some waves created by their relationship (lab security cameras cause a few issues!) I like how much emphasis is placed on the need to ensure that Reese should not have to compromise in her personal or professional life. Women in male orientated industries have to work so much harder in order to be taken seriously, and this novel acknowledges that fact whilst giving us a hot and heavy relationship!
This is yet another great offering from Camilla Isley, and I am more than happy to recommend it to you all. On a rainy Sunday afternoon such as this, it is the perfect novel to curl up with under a blanket with a cheeky glass of wine whilst your roast is cooking!
Thank you to Camilla Isley, Boldwood Books and Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and for providing me with a copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.
Author Bio
Camilla Isley is an engineer who left science behind to write bestselling contemporary rom-coms set all around the world. She lives in Italy and her first title for Boldwood, The Love Theorem, a Hollywood-meets-STEM romance, will be published in June 2023.
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