Trust in Advertising edition by Victoria Michaels Literature Fiction eBooks
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Lexi White finds herself at a crossroads. After putting everything on hold to care for her ailing father, it’s finally time for her to start living her life again. An exciting new job holds the promise of a fresh start, until she comes face to face with someone from her past who has always stopped her dead in her tracks, and who evidently still has the power to make her forget her own name. This time around, Lexi’s a grown woman who refuses to back away from her dreams, even if it requires working with her old high school crush. Side by side. Every day. Will he end up being her downfall or exactly what she needs? Vincent doesn’t even remember Lexi from high school, but he begins to take notice when the fiery young woman is hired as his new assistant. Quickly, Lexi turns his world upside down and becomes an invaluable addition not only to his team, but to his life. Having learned a few hard lessons about trust in the past, Vincent is reluctant to let down his guard, especially when it appears that someone is out to sabotage his family’s advertising agency. Professionally, they are dynamite together, but when sparks fly between them personally, will Vincent let lies and jealousy ruin everything between them, or will he finally learn not only how to love, but ultimately trust...in advertising? Victoria Michaels once again delivers a can’t-put-it-down novel loaded with engaging characters, cheeky dialogue, and powerful emotions. Trust in Advertising is a cleverly woven tale about two people getting to know each other and ultimately themselves.
Trust in Advertising edition by Victoria Michaels Literature Fiction eBooks
The story started well, but aroud 35% it became a plot with such stereotypical characters that turned predictable.The protagonist (Lexi) is perfectly good, wonderfully efficient, extremely clever and superiorly resourceful. While the antagonist (Jade) is soooo evil and mean spirited that we can almost hear her Machiavellian laughter every time she opens her mouth. Both characters are so extreme that they become a caricature of themselves. The (stereotypical) family of the (stereotypical) hero, obviously, is inclined to the goody-goody heroine, but the hero stupidly clings to the vicious Jade until the end, although he does not love her and has feelings for Lexi...
The story became a black and white tale without depth or complex characters. It bored me. I do not recommend this book unless someone likes to identify clichés.
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Trust in Advertising edition by Victoria Michaels Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
First, I really liked the story line of this book. And I loved the heroine and her personal growth and development. I can't decide about the hero. He could have been fantastic, but he wasn't. I think that's mostly because of the over-the-top villainess of a girlfriend that he has for 95% of the book.
I get the"other woman" thing that both protagonists have to overcome. I get that he was only with her because of the sex (though it never shows that, thank goodness) and to shield his betrayed heart. What I don't get is why he keeps someone around that continually harms the only two things he cares about in his life--his family and his career. And they overlap, because he works for a firm his family owns. The nasty girlfriend is rude to his family (the book makes it clear that she had a history of this) and hurtful to his beloved niece, yet he not only continues to bring her to family events, he makes excuses for her. I also can't believe he lets her hang out at his place of business. She throws her weight around, is rude and disruptive, won't let him work, and tries (and had succeeded in the past) to get his secretary fired. He doesn't like it when she's there, so why does he allow it? Why did he allow her to control him to the point where she's dictating his meal choices? And why doesn't his mother (the CEO) ban her from the building? Yeah, I get that she's a famous supermodel, but the H and CEO mommy aren't impressed by that, even if others are. He also takes her to important business/social events, where she embarrasses him and bombs business deals and relationships that he tries to foster there. All of this combines to make the hero look stupid and weak, as well as a jerk.
The funny thing is, all the author had to do is either make the nasty girlfriend's awfulness a lot more subtle (have her be sticky sweet with his family, for instance, and be a lot more clever and careful about drumming up work for herself at his business events) or put a lot more distance between the two of them. For instance, one time screaming at his secretary at work (even if he does it too) or walking in on an important meeting there should have been enough for him to forbid her ever coming to his work. And she'd obey if he meant it, because their relationship is beneficial enough for her that she wouldn't want to lose it. And even if he couldn't bring himself to do it on his own, why didn't his mother sit down with him for a little heart-to-heart about keeping business and personal lives separate? And following up, if necessary, with an ultimatum of, "If you can't keep her out, Security can." I don't care what industry you're in, no boss would put up with her kind of disruption in the work place. That relationship would only make sense if she's strictly arm candy with a girlfriend title, where he refuses let her to meet anybody or take her anywhere where he remotely cares about what happens.
This was a 5 star story all the way...till the epilogue. ***SPOILERS***
I loved Vincent and Lexi's story. It started off slow but once it got going I was hooked. The chemistry between them was palpable and the little added mystery was prefect. If the book had ended a page before the epilogue I would have been much happier though.
I felt Lexi moving to New York was completely unnecessary. If she wanted to spread her wings and fly, she could have done it much closer than literally the opposite side of the country. Then on top of that asking Vincent to come there?!?! His ENTIRE life and career was in San Francisco! How selfish can you be? She had no family so the move was easy for her but he had to leave this parents, his TWIN, and a niece he absolutely adored. SELFISH! I lost all respect for her and I ending up hating her for it. I wish I hadn't read the epilogue at all.
I was bad this week and reread a book when I am on a deadline to finish two other books. But I couldn't help myself. I wanted to revisit Lexi and Vincent, two of my old friends. This book is like comfort food for me. But see? I'm being good and finally writing down my thoughts on this one after reading it first almost 3 years ago. Trust in Advertising is one of the books I go to when I want something sweet. It makes me smile and leaves me feeling giddy.
Vincent hires Lexi as his new assistant but he doesn't realize (as she does) that they were actually classmates in high school. She remembers because she had a huge crush on him (and still does). But he's kind of gruff and jerky to her in the beginning. He's also taken. He's dating a model named Jade and she's a major stuck-up jerk with an inferiority complex where Lexi's concerned.
Over the course of the novel, Vincent warms up to Lexi, realizing that she just a really sweet person with drive and ambition. His whole family loves her. She's also incredibly talented when it comes to advertising. The two start working together on advertising campaigns and sparks fly. But Vincent is still with Jade. Ugh!
What I enjoy so much about this book is the whole office romance setting. When I hear office romance, I immediately think it's going to be super sexualized erotica (which I don't have a problem with) but sometimes I just want a straight up contemporary office romance. This is the book that fits that description.
Surprisingly enough, this book has no sex scenes in it, which is unusual for adult contemporaries. The focus in this book is on building the relationship between Lexi and Vincent and creating that delicious romantic tension readers love so much in books. It's totally there, you guys! And it pulled at my heart and kept me reading.
Some of the things that bothered me was Vincent and how he stayed with Jade for so long, even though he knew Jade was all wrong for him. I mean really, dude, get the nerve to break it off with her. Jade's character as a villain was over-exaggerated. Every scene she was in she was downright nasty and it got to a point where it wasn't realistic. I would have understood that she was bad without it being so blatant. Lastly this book is really, really long. I think it could have been cut down quite a bit and still had the same effect. Nonetheless, those things bothered me but they didn't completely take away from my enjoyment of the book.
I've read Victoria Michaels' Boycotts and Barflies a few years ago and really need to reread it again. She released another book last year called Concealed , but I've yet to get to that one. I really one to because the two books I've read of hers I've enjoyed. I hope she keeps on releasing books because I will read them.
3 stars
The story started well, but aroud 35% it became a plot with such stereotypical characters that turned predictable.
The protagonist (Lexi) is perfectly good, wonderfully efficient, extremely clever and superiorly resourceful. While the antagonist (Jade) is soooo evil and mean spirited that we can almost hear her Machiavellian laughter every time she opens her mouth. Both characters are so extreme that they become a caricature of themselves. The (stereotypical) family of the (stereotypical) hero, obviously, is inclined to the goody-goody heroine, but the hero stupidly clings to the vicious Jade until the end, although he does not love her and has feelings for Lexi...
The story became a black and white tale without depth or complex characters. It bored me. I do not recommend this book unless someone likes to identify clichés.
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