I wanted to read this book from the moment I saw it on NetGalley. My request to read the book was initially denied but the publisher later invited me to read it. It’s no secret that I love an enemies to lovers romance and while that’s how the book started, the pair weren’t really enemies after chapter 3 or 4, and it turned into an office romance, which is fine, but not my favorite.

I really enjoyed myself until the ending where it dropped the ball on properly resolving everything. Considering how crappy Max was the entire book he needed to do a whole lot more groveling. Some of the things he did were out of ignorance but he was never held accountable for really anything he did. Like the title says, he was an ass, but he did not cease to be an ass as the book progressed. He did not have any sort of redemption arc or show any signs of growth by the end of the book which was disappointing. I liked Aggie more than I liked Max, but honestly she needed therapy and more than a boyfriend.

As I said, I did actually really enjoy the book and it was a fun escape. There was a lot of funny moments and some fun banter. I adored both of the grandmothers meddling in their grandchildren’s lives. However, where the ending was not great, it leaves a sour note on my overall impression of the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The title of this one grabbed my attention, and honestly, I needed to know how things would turn out for Aggie & Max. I love an enemies to lovers, and add in a workplace romance, some meddling grandmothers and some hijinks(yes, that’s what I said), it really did come together nicely.
There was a lot going on in this one, and the characters didn’t exactly make me want to latch on and be friends, so it isn’t going to rocket to my ‘read again list’ but it didn’t leave me disappointed.
Overall, this was an okay read for me.

**I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

What a fun read!!! This is a workplace romance that includes witty banter, spicy trivia scenes, and meddling grandmas.
Aggie is a free spirited woman who has been through jobs like a revolving door for the last 18 months. She was raised by her MeeMaw on the wrong side of the tracks in Kansas City. However, she is determined to have her family name finally be one of respect instead of looked down upon.
Max is a self-made business man who grew up in the high society lifestyle. He buts his work above all else and love is not something he has ever had on his radar.

Both Aggie and Max's grandmothers have befriended one another and have decided to play matchmaker. Max needs a new assistant, and Aggie. needs a job that lasts more than two weeks. Aggie and Max see this for exactly what it is, and are determined to let put their grandmothers in their place. However, even though they are quite the opposite, their attraction for one another is instant (though they try their hardest to resist).

I loved these characters and their dialogue with one another. Aggie is very "fly by the seat of her pants" and Max is orderly and structured. However, you root for these two. Aggie is determined not to be seen as the poor little girl from the bad side of town, however, this is what gets in her way of owning up to her feelings.

This book is a perfect summer read! It is fast paced and entertaining. I love books that can have me laughing, crying, and fanning myself from all the "heat", all at the same time.

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This book grabbed me with the title as it made me crack up and sounded like it would be a fun LOL read. The book introduces us to Max who owns his own business and out of a temporary secretary and Aggie who is still searching for that job that gives her that "spark" of excitement and fulfilment. When Max's grandmother decides to use "the favour" and hire Aggie, he decides to make her hate the job so much that she will quit. Aggie decides to do the opposite and make it so he hates her and will fire her or not offer her the job. This led the book to remind me of the movie "How to Lose a Guy in 10 days" starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. I enjoyed the chemistry between the two characters and the book had a few LOL moments. The other thing I loved was the characters' relationships with their grandmothers/mee-maws as both myself and my partner are close to our grandmothers/Nanas. If you are wanting a book that has laughs and romance, then Aggie the Horrible Vs Max the Pompous Ass is the read for you.

Thank you, NetGalley for providing me with an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review

I actually quite enjoyed this. For the most part, it was amusing and entertaining.

Though I did cringe at some of the sentences.
Here is a list to name a few:
"She was cheekier than a Kardashian's ass."
"Lucky her. those jeans were singing the chorus to 'sexy and I know it.'"
"She eyed him like a banana she couldn't wait to eat."

I also was not a huge fan of how the protagonist, Aggie, kept assuming the worst of everyone by believing they were looking down on her for her socioeconomic status. She did this A LOT.

But regardless, I found this to be a pretty decent book.

I'm not entirely sure why I finished this book. It started off strong with a tiny bit of misogyny but I wasn't entirely sure how the author intended for it to come across so I stuck it out.

The characters weren't great. Aggie had a GIANT chip on her shoulder about growing up poor and the disparity between herself and the rich. Max was an alpha-hole on steroids. Also, Grant was only mentioned as a reason to get some things/ideas across to Max. Like honestly the only friends in the book were their grandmothers.

There was honestly just so much going on here, the plot with the mom, the insta-love, lust, the clients. The plot with the mom was just wild-- like there were so many things I felt were unaddressed in the end?? Idk just all over the place.

The plot moved so quickly on some things but dragged others out. I just did not enjoy it really. There were quite a few times I wanted to stop but I think I was just intrigued to see how it would end?

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the opportunity to review! All thoughts are my own.


Review will be posted to my instagram before its publishing day July 19th.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This was a super fun read!! Aggie and Max were great big personalities on the opposites which made for epic banter & hot hot chemistry!! I loved everything from the matchmaking grandmas, to the enemies to lovers storyline.

Lisa Wells makes romance writing look easy in this cheeky yet heartfelt enemies to lovers tale. Aggie is the funniest most confident disaster to Max’s man-in-most-dire-need-of-some-orgasms.  Think Along Came Polly meets Sabrina's Linus Larrabee. Laughable, lovable, and superbly lustable. If you love heroes with no pulse who, when they find it, realize the problem was that it would pulse ferociously only for one particular woman, then look no further. There’s slow burn and then there’s brilliantly slow broiled. Witty chemistry--the most charming, steamy, hilarious workplace romance. Be a peach and slip this on your bookshelf. Absolutely loved it—a memorable read that will leave you laughing and is going on my favorites shelf. And Dear Max, nice to meet a fellow last-pager.

The only thing Aggie doesn’t quit on is her Meemaw, which is how the most hilariously hot meet-not-so-cute in history transpires between her and Max when their grandmothers arrange for him to give her a job interview. When her plan of being too inappropriate to hire backfires, Aggie finds herself with the first job she may actually enjoy and a boss she enjoys terrorizing as much as looking at. How is it possible for so much attraction to radiate in one office between two polar opposites with traditions of prejudice in their corners? Deadlines, million-dollar deals, pride, social class norms, unrequited uncertainties, and family skeletons create a tedious track for Aggie and Max to hurdle and find out if love to a total mismatch is worth the risk.

This story fell flat for me, unfortunately. The premise sounded good and I excepted a funny and flirty office romance with a bit of traditional not friends-but getting there-to lovers (so this is not rivals- or enemies to lovers) but in the end it all just felt bland and nothing too special really.

Aggie and Max are supposed to hate each other after that their grandmothers have schemed to have them work together, but it's more insta-lust than anything remotely like hate or dislike. However, they are well-written and Aggie is definitely not boring. She is the comic-relief of the book, sometimes a bit too much though, and I found myself smiling several times throughout the story.

The book was not my cup of tea, at least not now, because it had too many misunderstandings and miscommunication was the key to the disaster (and not just a few times and I absolutely hate the use of that to make things "interesting"). Add everything up and I didn't really have any interest in the characters or the story as I had hoped.

If there's one thing I love in a romance it's to see two characters have such a mutual dislike of each other, but with obvious sexual tension. I love to see it build up, break and have the characters try to deny it and themselves. Sometimes when side characters (like grandmas) are involved it takes a bit of the shine away. This storyline did seem to go on a little bit too much for me, I think the tory could have gone a bit further without too much of the same.
A fun read with good elements. Thank you yo netgalley, the publisher and the author for the arc in exchange for an honest review

This was a super fun read!! Aggie and Max were great big personalities on the opposite ends of the Enneagram spectrum which made for epic banter & hot hot chemistry!!

The story unfolds as their grandmothers collude in order to force Max to hire Aggie as his assistant in hopes that they will fall madly in love with each other immediately. Instead what happens is that Aggie & Max but heads from the beginning, their instant attraction notwithstanding. The story took lots of fun turns and twists, it turned Max into the absolute worst most pompous boss ever and Aggie gave as good as she got in most cases.

Highly recommend to anybody who loves a good workplace romance/enemies to lovers Romance/Romance.

Mein Leseerlebnis

Meine Erfahrungen mit dem Buch lassen sich schwer unter einen Hut bringen. Auf der einen Seite mochte ich den lockeren und flotten Schreibstil der Autorin sehr. Auch fand ich die Grundidee der Geschichte spannend, genoss es mehr über die Hauptcharaktere zu erfahren und musste bei so mancher Szene schmunzeln oder sogar richtig lachen.

Allerdings fand ich ein paar Dinge in der Geschichte so unglaubwürdig und übertrieben (alles rund um Aggies Job und wie sie an ihn kam), dass ich Probleme hatte mich voll auf die Geschehnisse einzulassen. Immer mal wieder haben mich Details aus meinem Lesefluss gebracht. Auch konnte mich die Liebesgeschichte emotional nur mäßig berühren.

Nehme ich das zusammen, so lande ich bei einer Bewertung irgendwo in der Mitte meiner Skala. Ich fand das Buch nicht schlecht, aber leider auch nicht komplett überzeugend.

🖤🖤3/4

Für wen?

Wer flotte Liebesromane mag, in denen alles ein wenig übertrieben dargestellt wird und die Ausgangslage eigentlich keinen Sinn macht, könnte mit dem Buch so seinen Spaß haben.

I really enjoyed this book! Every aspect of it was throughly enjoyable, and written in an easy-to-read way! From the matchmaking grandmas, to the enemies to lovers storyline, what's not to love?

As a fan of enemies to lovers storylines, this one really hit the spot, the hatred between the pair was believable and borderline hilarious to witness! The pair couldn't be more different from one another and I think Lisa Wells has written them perfectly, there are numerous aspects of the story that could be considered as flawed, but the characterisation is definitely not one of them! Both Aggie and Max play their roles in the story amazingly and Wells really makes their character's differences work.

Overall this was an enjoyable, quick read!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was a fun read. The leads are hilarious. The premise is what caught my eye and it delivered. I laughed so many times throughout this book. Anyone looking for a funny, steamy romance with meddling grandmothers, this should float your boat.

“Wrong side of the tracks" vs “Born with a silver spoon”

I absolutely loved this book and read it in one sitting! An entertaining enemies to lovers romance about not being shallow.

Not only are Aggie and Max both fun characters but their meddling grannies make this book that much more comical. Aggie is a free-spirit with no filter and Max is a stiff pompous ass.

I'd recommend this one to anyone looking for a good laugh.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing, Lisa Wells and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Aggie comes from the wrong side of the tracks, has had a hard time staying at a job for any length of time, and is a free spirit. Max is a perfectionist, has his own business, and comes from money. They are as opposite as can be.

Their grandmothers, however, are two peas in a pod, and when the two of them decide that Aggie would be the perfect job candidate for Max’s personal assistant, everything goes a little haywire.

Aggie doesn’t want to disappoint her Meemaw, so she goes to her interview dressed inappropriately, and acts even more inappropriately. Max can’t get out of the favor he has promised his Grandmother, so he tried to make Aggie turn down the job by making her fill out a ridiculously lengthy personality quiz in an overheated room, and tried to make the job duties incredibly outlandish.

A witty enemies to lovers romance with incredible banter, lovable supporting characters in their respective grandmothers, and many lessons about judging others from different walks of life!

Thank you to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A fun and easy summer read. If you like quick and witty banter, pick this one up. Aggie and Max, trying to work together for 2 months, have totally different views on things. Throw in meddling grandmothers and the fun gets to a new level. At times skimmable, as it could have been shortened a bit, but overall I enjoyed this one. A few touches of sad story lines, but overall fun and light. Would recommend.

A Reformer and an Enthusiast. Meddling Grannies. And a one-in-a-lifetime bid.

You know, I've been reading a lot of romance lately, and oftentimes when you run into the "Enemies turned Lovers" trope, it's hard to believe that these two people who HATED each other three hundred pages ago are now deeply and irrevocably in love - but with Max & Aggie, I'm tempted to believe it!

After being forced to work together (in a very small space mind you) by their grandmothers, Aggie & Max constantly butt heads. Aggie is a free-spirit who is determined to not settle for a job that is anything less than her dream. Max is hard-headed & set in his routine - he has put in A LOT of work to get where he is & away from his silver spoon childhood, and he's not about to let an Enneagram 7 ruin that for him.

But as the two work together and learn that there's more than meets the eye (how cliche right?), they discover they actually have a lot more in common than they originally thought! While Aggie is a drifter, she is also VASTLY determined when she discovers something that is important to her. And while Max is driven and creative, he needs Aggie to see all of the possibilities a project could be.

I will say, one thing that aggravated me about these two was that they were both WAY too stuck in their own heads! Instead of TALKING to each other, many times they ran forward with their assumptions about the other & would take seventeen steps back in their new & precarious relationship. Aggie has a chip on her shoulder about being poor growing up, and she thinks that EVERYONE she meets can see it written all over her face that she didn't come from money. Max is stuck in the idea that Aggie is flighty & can't hold a job, so every time she steps even a little bit out of line or seems to make a decision differently than he would, he flips out!

HOWEVER, while it was irritating to see the two of them continue to backpedal in their relationship every time there was a misunderstanding, it made their reconciliations & deep conversations that much more gratifying to the reader (& I would presume to the characters).

Definitely enjoyed this book!

Which, if you doubt me, I finished it in less than 24 hours. So there's that.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous, a rom-com by Lisa Wells, is, for the most part flirty and fun.

In the past year Aggie Johanssen (disregard the name in the blurb as it’s not the same as in the book) has been through more jobs than can be imagined, which makes her Meemaw worry about her. Her Meemaw arranges for her to get an interview with Max Treadwell, who buys and flips properties. Max recognizes that his own grandmother and Aggie’s are up to something, but he agrees to give Aggie an interview to be his temporary assistant until his permanent one returns from maternity leave. He just doesn’t promise to his grandmother that the interview alone won’t make Aggie go screaming out of the building.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous has a lot of promise and manages to come through on a lot of it. Aggie and Max are both fun characters, although Aggie’s obsession with the fact that she comes from the wrong side of the tracks gets old really quickly merely from the fact that it’s mentioned so very often. Her lack of self-esteem, which is sometimes at odds with her confident sauciness, makes her question things that should be self-evident if she thought about them. And, actually that’s one of the bothersome things here because Aggie is smart. A person is not going to offer you a job if they’re just intent on getting rid of you. That doesn’t make sense.

Regardless, I let those things go (evidently mostly) because Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous did prove to be fun escapist fare. And I let it the little things that didn’t make sense go until the end. I expected a grand gesture but the end fizzled out like a dud firework. But even worse than the fizzling was that sex was pretty much being used as the apology, which is wrong on so many levels after they parted the way they did. Wrong. Just wrong. I thought it demeaning that anyone would think that insulting words and bad behavior could be dismissed by sex–even in a long term relationship that might be pushing it.

Up until the ending, this was a pretty solid, above-average read. The question is: how much emphasis do we put on the end in a rom-com? At the very least, we should come away feeling happy and even the epilogue didn’t get me there. For that reason, that ending dropped a solid point from this rating. Maybe others won’t mind the ending as much as I did.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Aggie the Horrible vs. Max the Pompous Ass was a funny, sweet and sexy book. I really enjoyed Aggie’s character, she was feisty and bold and charming, such a peach! I liked how she and Max interacted, how someone so buttoned up as Max had to know deal with the adventurous and wild Aggie. The premise for the story was great, as where the meddling grandmothers, and the sexy times where quite steamy indeed. Overall a fun read that had happy, hilarious and sad moments all mixed together.