January Fields

This book was a quick read that kept me easily entertained. Rebekah Edwards is a young, female engineer whom is chosen by her firm to go to Singapore for a conference, at the last minute. This is Rebekah’s chance to overcome her gender stereotypes in engineering and prove to her firm a worthy employee. Rebekah quickly befriends another young female engineer from Japan, Akari, but more importantly Rebekah begins to lust over one of her engineering idols, Emile Martin.

This book frustrated me. While I appreciate that it was intentionally kept short, sweet and to the point, it seemed entirely rushed. The author could have done a great job opening the book by further building on Rebekah’s jet lagged exhaustion, or further cultivating Akari and Rebekah’s interactions and friendship. This book opened with Rebekah jumping on the plane, being groped by her seat mate, getting open cocktails and bed…in about as many words too. In using the first chapter to develop Rebekah more fully, this book could have started off with more of a kick.

Additionally, I was frustrated with the characters themselves. First, how did Akari’s friendship really even come about? It felt like suddenly they were friends and then Rebekah was telling her everything liked they’d been “besties” forever. Second, WHAT?! Rebekah attended one day of lectures, wants to prove herself to her company, but suddenly is ditching out on the whole conference to see the sights, seriously?! Lastly, the ending just abruptly happened. This seemed to be okay though, as it aligned with the rest of the book’s abrupt events.

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