Lightning review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 I've been feeling overwhelmed lately (I know, right?) so I've been turning to novellas for quick reads to help me cope. 
 Fling by Jana Aston is a forbidden office romance. For the most part I enjoyed it, but the romance wasn't adequately developed (probably due to the length of the book) and sometimes the hero irked me. He was irksome. 
 I was kind of hoping for delicious awkwardness, but Gabe basically just decides to go for it. Enter hot forbidden office sex. 
 The novella was okay but it didn't have room for much in the way of conflict and absent conflict there isn't much development. Also I really wanted a less alpha hero. Gabe is all about fucking not loving and I'm so sick of that guy. 
 I think this book might be better served as an add on to the rest of the series, but on its own it was pretty meh. 
 - Elyse