Summary
Finding the words is easy with the right person…
Vivid Publishing copy editing intern Christine Willard has grown up knowing that in order to succeed in her world that she has to fight to stay on top.
Her no-nonsense attitude doesn’t leave a lot of room for men in her life. Typically, she’s okay with that, but when another editor’s intern starts to break down her defenses, she fights her building attraction while keeping him at arm’s length.
Sam Langley finds himself intrigued by his temperamental co-worker, having grown up in a household of strong females. He enjoys pushing her buttons to see how she’ll react. The only problem is, he doesn’t account for the fact that if you play with fire, you’re likely to get burned.
Can Sam break through that bristly exterior or will she push him away like everyone else when her career is at stake?
Review
We didn’t need to talk to fill the silence, but I was comfortable sharing parts of myself with her.
🦋 What I Liked 🦋
I’ve never read anything from E.L. Koslo before. But, after reading the premise for Mark My Words, I was intrigued.
Office romance. Enemies-to-lovers. Sign me up! Anything book-related, even better. Christine and Sam work in a publishing house and are in the running for the same promotion.
Even when people come from different backgrounds, they can still recognize a connection with one another. Sam and Christine understand each other and need one another.
There were a lot of quotes that I loved or related to, and I highlighted them. I wanted to include them in my review but can’t have them all because some of them may be too spoilery.
🦋 What I Didn’t Like 🦋
Sam and Christine kept hurting one another. Every decision they make, they believe that it would be the best for the other. If only they talked to one another before making any decisions that may impact the other. The miscommunication gets to be too much. Believing what is best and what is the best are two different things.
Oh, the whiplash. The hot and the cold. I understand indecision, but the degree to which these characters go it hurts to think about.
Christine did not curse, which is fine. What bothered me was that it was inconsistent. She went from going to not cursing, to cursing, to not cursing again.
🦋 Overall Enjoyment/Impact 🦋
3.75 ⭐
I debated about what I wanted to rate Mark My Words. After contemplating between 3.5 and 4 ⭐, I’ve settled on 3.75 ⭐. But I’ll round it up for rating purposes. This doesn’t mean I didn’t like it because I did. On the contrary, 3 ⭐ for me is good, especially if they’re on the higher end. I enjoyed reading Mark My Words; there were just some things that irritated me too much, and I couldn’t look past them.
After finding out there is another book in the Words series set in the same world as Mark My Words, I took a chance without reading it first. However, since the couple had cameos and the glimpses that we could see, it made me want to read Foreplay on Words. I cannot wait to read more from E.L. Koslo.
Thank you, The SmutHood and E.L. Koslo, for letting me be a part of The SmutHood Review Tour.
