Review: Partner Pursuit by Kathy Strobos

Hello everyone! How are you?

A little life update: I’m reading two books at the same time but my progress has been really slow. I don’t know why but recently I don’t feel like reading or writing anything. It seems I’ve been hit by a terrible, terrible reading slump and a writer’s block all at the same time and honestly, it’s not fun. It’s like I don’t even know how to live anymore since all I do everyday is read and write and with these two gone, I’m just….lost.

Anyway, with a lot of effort, I’ve finally forced myself to write this review. So I really hope you like it! Now without further ado…

Partner Pursuit by Kathy Strobos is a romance that looms around a storyline of a workaholic lawyer and a laidback, chill music marketing executive. The story especially draws the line between being productive and being busy, and how when the line between the two blurs, it can cost you a lot.

This specific idea was the first thing that intrigued me to request this book in the first place, since I’m very anti-hustle culture. People often forget the difference between being a human being and a human doing, and it irritates the hell out of me and so, it was lovely to read a book surrounding a theme similar to that.

Anyway, lets stick to the topic.

This book revolves around Audrey, a lawyer who is looking for an opportunity to make partner in a law firm and for anyone who is a lawyer would know that making partner is a very important event of any lawyer’s career. She has known her entire life that she has to keep her eyes on the prize and not let her doubts deter her. Things go out of her way when she meets her new neighbour, Jake- a sexy, laidback music marketing executive who believes in the fact that work should be fun, not a prison. As a matter of fact, Jake has a special dislike towards lawyers because he knows how busy they get. He just doesn’t want to live a life with someone who doesn’t have time for anything else other than work.

If you like a coming of age, opposites-attract, workaholic meets chill romance then you’re in for a treat.

Okay, so when I was reading this book, I could see a lot of myself in Audrey because at one point in my life I was a workaholic like her. Like working 24 hours without breaks. That was me. I still kind of am but I have improved a lot. It’s a work in progress but anyway, I felt connected to the main character of the story pretty immediately.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the first half of the story as I read it. It was one of those moments when I kept thinking about the book even when I wasn’t reading it. It was all over my mind.

There were a lot of lawyer related topics that I had no clue about, so I skimmed through some of those because reading them made no sense to me, like most of it went right over my head so I skipped a few things when it came to the lawyer work related things so I knew enough to know what was happening in Audrey’s life but still not too much in detail.

In my personal opinion, I just feel that the author went way too much in detail about the cases the main character had to deal with without much context because honestly, they did not contribute anything to the story. Maybe just a brief mention of her work status would have sufficed the overall story. Including so many details made it boring for a layman like me who had no idea about lawyer things. But that’s just my personal opinion.

Another thing that troubled me a little was the lack of tension. I loved the first half of the book but the moment the two lovebirds get together in a relationship, the tension died. Also, the relationship thing happened very quickly. Or maybe I’m just old school who likes things slow when it comes to romance.

Anyway, this lack of tension bored me a little and I no longer felt inclined or drawn to pick up the book again. Thanks to my persistence and my ideology of never leaving a book half read that I picked the book again soon and finally, the tension was rebuilt when Audrey’s workaholism started affecting everything else around her.

The ending was good, although it did feel a little rushed but given that the story had no loose ends by that point, I let that slide.

Now onto writing, the prose was fun and easy to understand. 10/10 for writing!

What I loved about this book was how the author managed to pull of one of the most nicely done love triangle between Tim, Audrey and Jake. I couldn’t stop laughing when the three of them were in the same room and the boys were acting like literal children grabbing for Audrey’s attention, claiming that they know her better! That was the best. I loved this effort because not a lot of people pull of love triangles that well. But it was done nicely in this book.

Overall I guess I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars. I loved the story and the characters and I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a lawyer or a workaholic.

I would also like to thank Netgalley and the author, Kathy Strobos for giving me the opportunity to read this amazingly written book in return of an honest opinion.

Thank you so much for reading! 💜