Partner Pursuit
by Kathy Strobos
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GENRE: women's fiction with romance/romcom/chicklit
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BLURB:
When a workaholic lawyer meets a fun-loving
music marketing executive for opposites attract, friends-to-lovers adventures,
which partnership will she choose?
Workaholic lawyer Audrey Willems is not going to
take any chances with her bid to become a partner at her New York law
firm—especially with only six months until the decision.
Until she bumps into Jake—her new neighbor.
Jake is a fun-loving music marketing executive who
might just be The One.
He’s funny, caring, supportive—and able to kill
water bugs in the bathroom.
But Jake will never date a woman married to her
job. His father was a workaholic lawyer who never had time for family.
And she’s just got the case of a lifetime—the one
she needs to win to make partner. Working 24/7 at the office may not even
be enough hours to pull off a victory.
If only she had not met him now.
Audrey is determined to prove that she can juggle
work and romance—even if managing court cases,
candlelit dinners, and bike rides around Manhattan is a lot harder than it
looks. She keeps canceling dates for yet another case crisis.
But when making partner is like a game of musical
chairs and the last seat is a business-class alone, which partnership will she
choose?
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Excerpt One:
Jacket on the back of the chair. Check.
Desk light on. Check.
Now, Ms. Willems, your mission, should you choose to accept it: Get out of the office on the sly. Audrey snorted silently at her own badly-played movie line. She stuffed the Save the Children t-shirt she’d gotten from a Central Park Zoo benefit in her Tory Burch brown leather satchel, added as many legal pads as could fit, and plumped the bag to look like it held at least four case files. She casually leaned the bag against the side of her desk, in view of her open office door.
The excited chatter of the exiting assistants filled the hallway. She typed up the Popflicks engagement letter and then entered Popflicks as a new client into the law firm database. Yes. Her pulse quickened.
The office was now quiet. She put an uncapped red pen in the middle of a legal pad on her desk. It looked like she’d be right back. The scene called for something more. If only she had a permanently steaming cup of tea. She poured a bottle of water into a glass.
She should depart boldly, but leaving early was frowned upon by the partnership powers-that-be. They might even think she needed another assignment. She definitely did not. She had just landed Popflicks. She had stayed until 11 p.m. every night this week. Okay, so I’m not always very good at saying no. But now was not the time to say no to a partner—not when she’d been working so hard for seven years, her life on hold. Now that she was in the homestretch, she could practically see “Audrey Willemson, Partner,” embossed on her law firm’s business card.
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Review: Audrey is a typical working girl with an aim to make partner at her law firm by a certain time, hence, the title, “Partner Pursuit.”
Story carried a nice narrative, but it was rather slow for my taste. I found the character admirable and respectable, but not quite as amusing. The story had a pleasant romantic element and some mildly amusing anecdotes, but it just didn’t engage me as much.
It’s a decent read though.
Rating: 3 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kathy Strobos is a writer living in New York City with her husband and two children, amid a growing collection of books, toys and dollhouses. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Stuyvesant High School and Harvard-Radcliffe University magna cum laude. She previously worked as a lawyer. She left law to pursue her dream of writing fiction full-time and getting in shape. She is still working on getting in shape.
Facebook: @kathystrobosrewrites
Instagram: kathystroboswriter
Twitter: @kathystrobos
Amazon buy link: https://www.amazon.com/Partner-Pursuit-feel-good-fiction-Friendship-ebook/dp/B09GD8V4RS/
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