“You’d be lucky to have me.” This single sentence issued from a twenty-five-year-old to a senior partner in a law firm is powerful, self-assured, and determined. And Laurie is very direct, passionate, and speaks so genuinely my heart aches. Diana is a workaholic ice queen who shows no emotion to anyone, including her husband. Both of them are very intense characters and I absolutely love that. The story is told in both Laurie’s and Diana’s first person viewpoints. But Diana is straight, married, and Laurie’s supervisor. Then jealousy burns in Diana when Laurie openly admires another older woman. There is something about the young woman that piques Diana’s interest. Part-time student Laurie Holcombe (25, lesbian) is not like previous PAs Diana Parker (43, half-Vietnamese), S.J.D. I don’t normally do well with ice-queen, age-gap, office romance, but I wanted to try anyway. Sinclair definitely surprised me with The X Ingredient. Note that ableist language is also present in the book (crazy, insane, mad, blind).
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