The Season of Secrets by Q.B. Tyler is an age-gap workplace romance featuring a twenty-one-year-old girl and her forty-one-year-old billionaire boss. She’s his assistant, he is tall, dark, handsome, and loaded. It’s a tale as old as time. Or at least as old as the concept of assistants.
Q.B. Tyler’s work is known for taboo age-gap dynamics that often verge on the uncomfortable. The relationship in this book is actually not as dramatic as most. Yes, there is a taboo on age gaps in general, and the power dynamics involved in a workplace relationship amplify that, but given that Q.B. Tyler wrote a book where the female main character’s love interest was her godfather, who had known her since she was born, this is relatively tame.
The Season of Secrets is a prequel to The Worst Kept Secret with different characters as the focus of a book. Raegan, the female main character in the prequel is the daughter of the male main character in The Worst Kept Secret where a man in his 40s is the love interest for his son’s best friend whom he met when she was barely a teenager. Like I said, downright tame for the prequel.
Q.B. Tyler has a knack for writing taboo in a way that makes you think well this is weird, but I’ll just move right along past the strangeness of it for the sake of all the sexy goodness.
The Season of Secrets has the most incredible smut just like all of its predecessors. That said, these are definitely not intense books plot-wise. There is no violence or suspense, and no big sweeping adventures. Generally, the conflict in Q.B. Tyler’s books involves people discovering these illicit relationships.
This book is perfect for when you need something short that won’t require too much mental and emotional labor, with a fast pace and all kinds of hot, steamy love. And, as always, there is a happily ever after.
Spice: 4
Writing: 3
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