Fling (Wrong, #3)

by Jana Aston

I have a crush on my boss' best friend.

At least it's not my brother' best friend. Or my best friend's brother. Or... never mind. It's all pretty cliche.

And worse? My boss' best friend is his business partner. Which sort of makes him my boss too. Okay - it's not sort of. It's definite. Gabe Laurent is off limits.

Totally off limits.

Which is fine. I make do with my imagination. He'll never know. Ever. Unless my work bestie passes me an eighties-style teen movie sex quiz during a meeting and I fill it out.

And it ends up in Gabe's hands...

• ISBN10: 1539571602
• ISBN13: 9781539571605
• Publish Date: 19 October 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 98
• Language: English

Reviews

[stacey_is_sassy]

All in a day's work...

I have never started and finished an audio in a day until I experienced Fling. I hit play this morning on the way to work and I finished just after I got home. How cool...I got a slam, bam, thank you máam all in one day. I knew this was going to be short and sweet, so I was surprised to be treated to a funny, sweet and sexy read, that left me very satisfied.

I had the dreaded...blushing, giggling and sniggering on the train AGAIN!! Seriously, it's getting embarrassing. People are starting to smile at me. I don't want strangers smiling at me. I need a cone of silence or an invisibility cloak or something.

This was a short story so for the life of me, I can't remember any of the characters names (we'll blame it on the story being short, not my SHOCKING memory). Anyways...Shy & Sweet has a huge crush that she thinks is her little secret. Crack-up Buddy is bored in a meeting and creates a sex survey for Shy & Sweet to fill out. Somehow, the survey gets in the hands of Hottie Crush...and he's intrigued. Could it possibly be Shy & Sweet?

There's nothing I like better than being pleasantly surprised by a wee treat. Fling is filled with a little kinky, some very mild spanky and plenty of frisky fun. I really enjoyed getting to know the characters better and I'm glad Ms Aston gave us a little more of their story. We got a glimpse of them in the other story (bad memory again). It's the one with the Quirky Chick who got her love interest wrong until she met Gorgeous Bossy Man. Gorgeous Bossy Man is Shy and Sweet's boss and Hottie Crush's business partner and best friend.

The narrators were great. I think it stands out more in a dual narration that a female has a wee bit more success doing a male voice than vice verse. I think the narrators voices suited the characters very well.

Trust is locked and loaded. Can't get enough of the Wrong bunch.

[Cocktails and Books]

This review was originally posted on Cocktails and Books

I haven't read the other books in this series, but I found myself falling into my novella trap again. I'm sure if I had read the other book, this speed in which Sandra and CFO Gabe get together wouldn't have bothered me.

Sandra has a crush on her boss' best friend and the company CFO, Gabe. She's extremely shy and wouldn't make a move on him in her wildest dream. But when her friend give her a sex survey during a meeting and it's accidentally collected by Gabe she suddenly becomes prey to this playboy.

The story had sprinklings of "Sixteen Candles" in it, which made it fun. But I would have loved to have more character and relationship development between Sandra and Gabe. It felt like they jumped from point A to B in a few short pages and it was left to the reader to guess how they got there.

Readers of this series will no doubt love the novella, but I felt like I was missing something. This is most likely my issue with novella (which I didn't realize this was) and not necessarily the book itself. I'll definitely be going back to the beginning of this series as I was intrigued by the characters.

[Linda]

This review was originally posted on (un)Conventional Bookviews
Fling has Aston's trademark humor, and I laughed out loud more than once. There was also a very relatable work-place romance, characters I wanted to spend more time with, and some glorious hotness!



I had already met Sandra and Gabe, very briefly, in Right by the same author, and I loved seeing what they were up to after Everly's shenanigans at the New Year's Party in Fling! Sandra is the kind of efficient administrative assistant I'm sure every boss would like to have! She does have a naughty side, though, but she doesn't let it out to play at work. Apart from that one time during a quarterly meeting when her best friend, Preston, has changed a quiz about the meeting to a sex-quiz instead. And it ends up in just the wrong (or right - depending on how you look at it, I guess) person's hands. And Sandra is sure Gabe knows straight away that the quiz is hers.

Gabe is the CFO of the company, sure of himself, good-looking, never in want for a woman's company if he feels like it. And that's just great with him - at least he thinks it is. Fling kind of proves him wrong, though, as after what he thought would be a one-night-stand with Sandra, he just can't get her out of his head. (Do you hear Kylie Minogue singing now? - you're welcome!) The dialogues between Gabe and Sandra, and also between Gabe an Preston or Gabe and Sawyer were hilarious more often than not. And I kept nodding because I could totally see people acting and talking like that.

Hot, sweet, funny, and did I say hot? All in a fast-paced little package that is Fling. The story is written in dual points of views, so we get both Sandra's and Gabe's perspective. First person prseent tense worked really well for it, too. Plus, for such a short story, it packed a punch and left me satisfied. All the while also having me all revved up for Trust which is being released next week...



I take another peek at Gabe. He looks a little bored himself, truthfully.

Smart turns me on. Sometimes Gabe wears these thick-rimmed glasses, kinda nerdish. Very Carlk Kent. They drive me to the brink of distraction. and I do not like to be distracted. Focus is the name of my game. Focused, reliable Sandra.

"Sex, Sandra. Sex was my workout," he says, jabbing the down button with his finger. "Liam's trying to knock me up."
"Um?" I blurt out, surprised. Preston is a gay man, so it doesn't exactly work that way.
"We're starting the adoption process." Preston laughs. "But why should we be denied the fun part?"

"Shut up," Sawyer interrupts. "She's not really your type."
"Beautiful?" I question.
"Sweet," he replies.
She is sweet, he's right about that. I think about the paper burning a hole in my pocket and wonder again if it was hers. I'd like it to be hers. I think sweet Sandra has a hidden dirty side, and I'd really like to uncover it.