Pearl Angeli's Reviews > Egomaniac

4 Captain Prolactinator Stars!

What I love about Vi Keeland is that her books always manage to hook me from the beginning and keep me hanging on until the very end. That's what Egomaniac did to me.

Drew Jagger is a lawyer who practices on his own. When he returned to his office from his Hawaii vacation, he was shocked to find out that there's a stranger inside and it's a woman with a fiery red hair. When Emerie Rose saw him, she was horrified and she instantly threatened him to go away because she's going to call a cop. She then claimed that it's her office and she's been staying there for a while now. Turns out that she rented the place and paid a large sum of money to a scammer!

It's my first time to read a book where both characters have opposing nature of work (Drew as a divorce attorney and Emerie as a marriage counselor) and I loved it because it showed a unique characterization. The romance was wonderfully done. Vi Keeland did an amazing job building a great chemistry between Drew and Emerie. Man, these two are quite a pair! The only thing that I didn't quite like was Drew's attitude. There were multiple places throughout the story where he was a bit conceited. Well, duh. The title shows it eh? I didn't see any character development with him, though, and I wished his "egomaniac" ways were somehow lessened as the story goes.

Having said that, I loved how balanced this book was. It started out cute and entertaining and in the middle part, it became sweet. Then there were little conflicts from Drew's past that, thank God, didn't ruin the story. Those conflicts made Drew and Emerie become a good team. I enjoyed watching them work their issues out.

As this book fell into the workplace romance trope, the way they worked together in one place where it's fueled with sexual tension was a bit crazy, too. In a good way. I loved this book as a whole!