Not Safe for Work

By: Nisha J. Tuli

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Two workplace enemies find themselves in close proximity on a tropical company retreat that challenges their assumptions—and just might make them to fall for each other—in this romcom by a beloved TikTok author.

"Tense, feisty, funny, and steamy!" —Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling at WMC Purcell, but after years of dealing with white male privilege and blatant nepotism, she watches her hard-earned promotion go to her nemesis, Rafe Gallagher—the boss’s son. Teetering on the edge of burnout, Tris is stunned when she’s picked to attend WMC's corporate leadership retreat in Hawaii. It’s a chance to revive her stalled career and compete for a coveted spot in an executive training program—plus, three weeks in paradise! The only downside? Rafe is her co-attendee.

Tris plans to avoid Rafe entirely, but when she arrives in Maui, a booking error has them stuck sharing the honeymoon suite. Sure, it’s not all torture. Rafe is a smoldering ten—okay fine, an eleven—but after years of competition, they can barely stand being in the same time zone.

As they vie against each other during aptitude tests and team-building exercises, Tris begins to realize Rafe might not be the villain after all. With her dreams at stake, can she learn to trust the man who might have been standing in her corner all along?

Critic reviews

“Tense, feisty, funny and steamy!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Abby Jimenez

“A trope-filled feast that also makes you want to burn your bra, NOT SAFE FOR WORKintroduces Nisha J. Tuli as queen of another genre. All hail.”—USA Today bestselling author Julie Soto

"Not Safe for Work takes the term 'beach read' to new heights. With a paradisic setting, this rivals-to-lovers office romance is at turns hilarious, hot, and deeply relatable. It's one of those books you'll wish you could scrub from your mind just to experience the joy of reading it for the first time over and over again."—Navessa Allen, New York Times best-selling author of Lights Out

“Tuli is an enormously skilled storyteller, and NOT SAFE FOR WORK is fantastic entry into contemporary romance by one of my favorite romantic fantasy authors!”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver

"Not Safe for Work is relatable, deeply romantic, and effortlessly sexy. It’s an absolute page turner."—USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author, Catharina Maura

STEM-ulating Romance

I really enjoyed this book. It was a palate cleanser contemporary romance that was enjoyable from start to finish. Our FMC Tris is a BIPOC engineer at a firm that has nothing but overlooked her at every turn. Rafe, a nepo hire, gets all the perks and accolades that Tris should be getting and the two have an ongoing rivalry that is coming to a head. The firm decides to host a competition sending two people to Hawaii for a chance to win a coveted spot in the firms engineering hierarchy. Surprisingly, Tris gets selected (because why would she at this point) and so does Rafe. That’s when the fun truly begins.

This novel has some pretty witty banter, one bed at the inn troupe, great minor characters that become your instant besties, and secrets coming to light. It’s fast paced (sometimes at break neck speed) and cute. And much loved body positivity and female empowerment.

The audio was good to listen to as a supplement. The narrator was hilarious with her banter and it felt like a natural experience.

Thank you to NetGalley and Hachette Audio for allowing me access to ALC in exchange for my honest review.

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The narration was so incredible

4.5 ⭐️

"I'd follow you anywhere"

This was an absolute masterpiece and I ate every inch of this up.
Rivals to lovers, one bed, forced proximity, work retreat in hawii, slow burn, its always been you, touch her and die, he falls first, and so much banter.

Trishara is hands down one of my new favorite FMC. Her strength and resilience and fuck it attitude made me fall inlove with her so fast. AND RAFE, my god I will be dreaming about him for the rest of my life.
This book had me kicking my feet giggling and smiling so hard my face hurt. I seriously could not put it down. I could probably say this is one of my new favorite romcoms, the magic that Nisha J. Tuli created in this book with some of the best tension and banter I have probably ever read.

Love love love!

What an adorable, swoony, real, adult (no communication crap), fantastic rom com book! The character seem so real and genuine the story adorable ☺️ and the emotions deep!

Was fine, but dragged on

I feel like if it was three chapters shorter it would’ve gotten four stars. The other thing that brought it down is the main characters kind of a wimp for the first 80% of the book, and the male lead tells her a couple times how much you respect her for being strong and smart, but then she talks about just phoning in at work and not really giving her all and not standing up for herself and she wimps out of everything. It just feels so disingenuous and she preens under the attention even though it’s obviously the opposite of every interaction that she’s had with anyone else in the whole book. It’s just clunky.

Chip on her shoulder!

The lead female role has a chip on her shoulder so big I bet her back hurts. I stuck it out til the end for the happy ending but I get sick of the playing victim/race card in real life so I don’t care to read about it in my comedy romance. It didn’t help her last name is a false god that people sacrificed their children to in the old days.