Mr. Corporate by J.A. Huss

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Weston Conrad is the best headhunter in the business. That handsome smile goes a long way towards convincing most people to trust him with their future. 
I’m not most people. I’m his direct competition. And it doesn’t hurt to be just the kind of woman he’s been looking for. 
I’m gonna flash you these legs, Weston Conrad. 
I’m gonna wear low-cut shirts and micro-mini skirts. 
I’m gonna dazzle you with wit and conversation and kiss those lips like they’re exactly what I’ve been waiting for. 
So don’t hate me when you figure out my secret. 
You understand, right? You’re Mr. Corporate and this is just business. 

Mr. Corporate

Annoying arguing between main characters

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌏
Character development: 😠☺️😋
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Heroes: Weston Conrad (a.k.a. Mr. Corporate) – He is an elite corporate recruiter who finds job candidates for executive positions. He never graduated college, but him and his wealthy friends (dubbed the Mister’s) went to Brown College ten years ago and were accused of gang rape. They never went to trial but were certainly portrayed as bad boys in the media and went through hell in the process for the two years it took till the charges were dropped because the girl died. They say they were set up and the guys had a pact never to speak about it and don’t even really know where each other were on that night it happened.

The heroine: Victoria Arias (a.k.a. Tori) – she is a headhunter and is in direct competition with Weston Conrad. They are rivals and old flames who went to Brown College together and happened to have been together on the night everything happened. She says she hates him, but she is attracted to him and always has been.

The Story: Weston and Tori have always fought each other but now, ten years after college, they are business competitors. Though Arias Corporation is struggling, and Tori is sad to see her father’s company disappearing before their eyes. Her father who has a brain tumor, wants her to team up with Weston, but Tori wants nothing to do with her former lover.

Victoria gets a call for a headhunting opportunity for a job that pays 7 figures. She hopes it will be the savior for her company. The person wants the job to be on contingency, where she is competing with other companies to fill the job. The company wants a guy named Wallace Arlington whom she went to school with and who had a crush on her. The person also wants her to do another job for them which sounds dubious, but she agrees and finds herself competing with West again.

The Mister’s are worried that someone from their past is purposely starting things after what happened with Mr. Perfect and Mr. Romantic. So, when Victoria reappears in Weston’s life again, he thinks that he doesn’t believe in coincidence that much and someone might be targeting him this time. I didn’t like this story or the characters in this book as much as in the first two books.

Weston was cocky like Mr. Romantic, whom I also didn’t like at the start, but Mr. Romantic got better pretty quickly. These characters just turned me off from the start and it didn’t really change. It might have been the narration, but I think it was the way they were written as well. Their arguing annoyed me more than anything. Though I kept listening because I wanted to find out more about who is setting them all up and why. Once that storyline really started, the book got much better, though still I wasn’t too hot on the romance between these two.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Ryan West and Abbey Craden. I love the fact that J.A. Huss is using different narrators for each of these books. Many authors use the same two narrators for a series even though each book centers on a different couple. Ryan West has a deep, clear voice which isn’t bad, but sounds a bit older than I picture West as. Abbey Craden has a kind of deep sultry voice, but I don’t really like it all that much.

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