Scrooge McF*ck (Some Girls Do It, #2)

by May Sage

Piper Stone's hunky, rude, entitled, Scrooge of a boss is pushing her buttons every day, but he's taken it too far, this time. Saying she couldn't take the holidays off was one thing; preventing her to go home to her sick child? Not happening. She has zero regrets when she resigns.

Bennet McFinnley can't believe his annoyingly perfect personal assistant has actually resigned from her cushy, highly paid position, and he intends to tell her exactly what he thinks about it.

But when he gets to her place, he comes to realize he might not know Piper as well as he thought he had.

Some Girls Do It is a series of standalone novels and novellas - expect adult language and situations.

• ISBN10: 1912415275
• ISBN13: 9781912415274
• Publish Date: 27 December 2016
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Imprint: Madam's Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 148
• Language: English

Reviews

[EBookObsessed]

It is never too late for a holiday story. This was a fun, lighthearted holiday romance and a quick read.

As a follow up of yesterday’s, She Girls Write it Better, I couldn’t resist continuing with the rather short Book 2, Scrooge McFuck. Again, this is not an erotic series. Piper’s boss, Bennet McFinnley, is a nasty boss with no Christmas spirit. Piper’s young daughter dubbed him Ebeneezer McFinnley which Piper changes in her own mind to Scrooge McFuck after a particularly stressful day.

What isn’t explained well is why Bennet is such a hard-ass when his father is a sweet man and Bennet inherited the company from him. You would think you would end up with disgruntled employees when their favorite boss is replaced by the nasty, pretentious son, but we don’t understand why he acts this way in general but then again, it is just a short story.

Bennet is rude to Piper since their parents were friends and he knows that Piper grew up in a privileged household. He thinks that she is just biding time until she can marry the perfect, rich, society man and stop working. What he doesn’t know is that since he knew her, Piper married the “wrong man” and had a child with him and was disowned by her rich parents. The wrong husband abandoned her and her daughter and stole all their money. Bennet wants Piper to screw up so he can fire her, but he has to admit that she is an outstanding Assistant.

Piper puts up with Bennet since he pays so well to put up with him, but she intends to quit once she saves enough money to keep her daughter in the school she is in as well as move them to a better, safer neighborhood. But when the school calls to say her daughter is sick and Scrooge won’t let her leave, she quits on the spot and walks out. Bennet doesn’t actually believe that Piper would quit and expects to see her on Monday morning and plans to apologize. When he finds a temp in her place, he goes to find his wayward assistant and learns the truth which leaves him feeling like the bastard he was.

Piper’s daughter is absolutely adorable and Bennet quickly falls under her charm, add that to the sexual tension he has been ignoring for his assistant, and Bennet suddenly warms to the idea of an instant family.

It is a fun, sweet story but again, once we get to the characters admit to their feelings and we get to the romance of the story, the story is over. These stories definitely could definitely be more successful with more substance. In the two stories I have read, May Sage proves that she has a talent to write an interesting, fun romance, they simply need more to make them great stories.

I am still looking forward to Lucy’s story in Bring on the Psychobitch.