Audiobook Review: By a Thread by Lucy Score

By a Thread by Lucy Score
Published by That's What She Said Publishing on April 23, 2020
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Erin Mallon, Sebastian York
Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
Genres: Romance, Romantic Comedy


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Dominic was staring at me like he couldn’t decide whether to chop me into pieces or pull my hair and French kiss me.

Dominic
I got her fired. Okay, so I’d had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. She proves that her first day of her new job… in my office… after being hired by my mother.

So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine’s offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by those brown eyes and that sharp tongue.

But that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be the next Russo man to take advantage of his position. I might be a second-generation asshole, but I am not my father.

She’s working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason she doesn’t feel like sharing with me. And I’m going to fix it all. Don’t accuse me of caring. She’s nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette.

Ally
Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.

Author’s Note: A steamy, swoony workplace romantic comedy with a grumpy boss hero determined to save the day and a plucky heroine who is starting to wonder if there might actually be a beating heart just beneath her boss’s sexy vests.

Lucy Score flaunts her dirty birdy side in By a Thread, a grumpy/sunshine, enemies-to-lovers office rom com. It’s warm, funny, hotter than Hades, and I was glued to every entertaining moment.

Shout out to my girl Ally. She is fiercely Independent (yes, the capital “I” is necessary). Even in the face of financial desperation and a family crisis, she manages to remain optimistic and resourceful. I loved her spunk. She gives as good as she gets with Dominic, whereas everyone else is intimidated by the handsome, taciturn, powerful alphahole.

There’s something satisfying about a strong man being brought to his knees by a woman. Dominic’s slowly unraveling cool demeanor is a joy to behold. He quickly becomes obsessed with Ally without her even trying. If anything, she delights in riling him up. Their love/hate relationship is hilarious and magnetic. Break your fans out because when they finally get it together, they burn the house down with their chemistry and Dominic’s fluent dirty talk. Not too shabby for two characters in their 40s!

Abby’s relationship with her aging, ailing father is touching. I loved Abby’s best friend who happens to own a strip club. I think Faith could have a fun story of her own to tell. 

The By a Thread audiobook is narrated by Erin Mallon, who never disappoints. I was surprised by how much humor Sebastian York effectively conveys as Dominic.

Recommended for fans of:
Fashion magazines
Fixer uppers
Office romance
Grumpy/sunshine
Enemies to lovers
Older characters

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