Bossman by Vi Keeland Review

4.5 Smooches

Synopsis

The first time I met Chase Parker, I didn’t exactly make a good impression.

I was hiding in the bathroom hallway of a restaurant, leaving a message for my best friend to save me from my awful date.

He overheard and told me I was a bitch, then proceeded to offer me some dating advice.

So I told him to mind his own damn business—his own tall, gorgeous, full-of-himself damn business—and went back to my miserable date.

When he walked by my table, he smirked, and I watched his arrogant, sexy ass walk back to his date.

I couldn’t help but sneak hidden glances at the condescending jerk on the other side of the room. Of course, he caught me on more than one occasion, and winked.

When the gorgeous stranger and his equally hot date suddenly appeared at our table, I thought he was going to rat me out.

But instead, he pretended we knew each other and joined us—telling elaborate, embarrassing stories about our fake childhood.

My date suddenly went from boring to bizarrely exciting.

When it was over and we parted ways, I thought about him more than I would ever admit, even though I knew I’d never see him again.

I mean, what were the chances I’d run into him again in a city with eight million people?

Then again…

What were the chances a month later he’d wind up being my new sexy boss?

Review

“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until you find it.”

Vi Keeland’s Bossman is the written romantic comedy real deal. This book, folks, is the stuff that great romcoms are made of! Chock full of fabulously witty banter with a persistent hero who was a bit broken and a gun-shy heroine who’s got her own issues, this was an engaging, emotional and erotic story of true love totally taking two people by surprise.

“There’s a fine line between genius and unhinged.”

Ok, so technically this relationship started out on a lie. But in all fairness, it was an unusual and awkward situation that turned completely ridiculous and raucously hilarious by the outrageousness spewing from the hero’s mouth. I was as entranced by Chase’s rambling and detailed stories of their fictional history as Reese was. Their first meeting was absolutely one of the best ‘meet-cutes’ I’ve ever read.

“If our kisses were each a story, this was the one where the hero got the girl, and they rode off into the sunset.”

Thinking she’d never see him again, imagine Reese’s surprise when lightning strikes and she runs into him again. Of course, another whopper of a tale ensues. Out of work Reese though is referred by Chase to his headhunter/VP of human resources, and she winds up working at the company he owns. Unfortunately for Chase, it’s not the slam dunk he thinks it’s going to be as Reese, having been seriously burnt by an office romance before, draws a line in the sand. All that deliciously simmering mutual attraction was right there, bubbling away, though, and Chase, undeterred by her rejections, pursues her relentlessly and unrepentantly.

“You didn’t put up that wall to keep him out. You put it up to watch him break it down to get to you.”

They both have things from their pasts that they’re dealing with, though. For Chase, meeting Reese was an awakening he wasn’t aware he was in need of; the depth of feelings he had for her were unexpected and surprising, but he like it, he liked her, and he was embracing the possibility of a relationship with her with both arms. But Reese hasn’t had the best of luck in the romance department, and she went into it as if she were waiting for the other shoe to drop. While her heart may have wanted this relationship to work, her brain just wouldn’t let her accept that it possibly could. These two had some serious things to work through both individually and as a couple, though, and it wasn’t always smooth sailing.

“I was the balance to his unsteadiness. He was the courage to my fear.”

Keeland did an amazing job giving her readers so much more than a simple workplace romance with Bossman. There was a real story here, one that was at times heartbreaking and at others uplifting. But keeping within the confines of the romantic comedy she billed Bossman to be, Keeland managed to deliver all of these feels with a very healthy dose of humor. Seriously sexy, wonderfully witty and surprisingly emotional, Vi Keeland’s Bossman was a win for me and gets 4.5 smooches!

~ Danielle Palumbo

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