Celebrate Me Review — Is It Worth Reading?

Q: Is Celebrate Me the same book as The Office Party?

Yes. The Amazon and Goodreads listings both note that Celebrate Me was previously published as The Office Party. If you already own that edition, you have read this story.

Verdict: A roughly 5,000-word butch-for-butch office-party short that delivers exactly the heat it promises, with a surprise D/s edge the three written reviews love, held back by a page count too small for anything but the one encounter and an Amazon score that runs cooler than Goodreads.

Best for: Readers who want a quick, explicit story about two butches at work, who read short erotic fiction for the scene rather than the relationship, and who are happy with a happy-for-now close.

Heat level: ★★★★★ (5/5 — derived; romance.io does not list it, but it is billed as steamy, shelved as erotica and reviewed for its heat)

Rating: ★★★★☆ (3.7/5 — a 4.44 Goodreads average from just 18 ratings, with almost no written reviews)

Tropes: Butch/butch, workplace romance, office party, coworkers with a teasing history, sexual tension boiling over, D/s dynamic, strap-on play, one-night encounter, HFN ending, erotic short.

Celebrate Me: A Steamy Butch for Butch Short by Roz Alexander is a self-published 2022 erotic short — listed in her Steamy Friday Night Shorts series on Goodreads and as part of Butches at Work on Amazon — a contemporary lesbian romance of about 5,000 words set at a company office party, and the collision at its centre is two butch coworkers who have been teasing each other for far too long finally running out of restraint.

It holds a 4.44 average across 18 Goodreads ratings, with only three written reviews. It came out on 2 October 2022, and it is not new material in the strictest sense: the listing notes it was previously published as The Office Party. Every written review is positive, but the evidence base is tiny and the two platforms disagree by more than half a star. That gap is worth understanding before you spend an evening on it — or, more accurately, a lunch break.

What Is Celebrate Me About?

Celebrate Me is erotica first and romance second, and it says so. Goodreads readers shelve it under erotica and nothing else, and the author’s own description calls it a steamy story about two butches who cannot keep their hands off each other. At around 5,000 words it is the shortest of Alexander’s books reviewed here, roughly half the length of her Bring Me Home, and it belongs to the same family: a single encounter, told tightly, with a hopeful close rather than a wedding.

The setup is butch-for-butch in a workplace setting. The blurb’s opening line is in the first person — the narrator is the one who has been teased — which suggests a single point of view, though no reviewer confirms how the story is told. What the book trades on is anticipation: the teasing has already happened by the time the story opens, and the office party is where it stops being a game.

What Makes This Butch/Butch Erotic Short Work

Two butches, on purpose: The subtitle puts the pairing up front, and it is the book’s whole identity. Alexander has built a run of butch-for-butch stories, from full-length novellas to shorts like this one, and readers who seek her out know what they are getting.
The heat: The only thing all three written reviews discuss. One calls it seriously hot, another opens with a five-star exclamation about the author bringing the heat, and none of them mentions anything else as the draw.
The D/s surprise: One five-star reader says outright they did not expect a D/s dynamic, and was delighted. The blurb does not mention it, which makes this the most useful thing to know in advance.
The workplace fantasy: One reader singles out the colleague who is always strapped at work and whisks the narrator away to their office — a very specific office-party fantasy, played straight.
The writing: The one reviewer who comments on craft calls the writing fantastic, and says this was their first Alexander book but will not be their last.

Book Synopsis

Two butches work at the same company, and the teasing between them has been going on for a long time. Neither has done anything about it. Both of them know exactly what is happening, and the tension has settled into the kind of workplace game that can run for months precisely because nobody is willing to be the one who ends it.

The narrator has had enough of being wound up. A company office party ought to be the one place where colleagues keep things professional, with everyone they work with in the same room. Instead it becomes the night the whole slow game finally comes to a head, and the question of who has been teasing whom turns into a more interesting one: which of them is going to take the lead.

What follows is short, direct and almost entirely about the two of them. The story is built around one night rather than a whole relationship, and the question it leaves hanging is simple: once the teasing stops, is this a single office-party lapse, or the start of something both of them want to keep?

My Review

The best thing about Celebrate Me is that it knows exactly what it is. It is billed as a steamy short at around 5,000 words, it promises two butches and an office party, and the three people who wrote about it say it delivers precisely that. There is no padding, no subplot and no pretence that this is a full romance arc. For a reader who wants butch-for-butch heat without committing to a novel, that honesty is a feature.

The second strength is the dynamic. Butch-for-butch stories live or die on how they handle power between two women who are both used to leading, and the reader reports suggest this one answers that question with a D/s dynamic rather than a coin toss. That is what earns the one five-star written review its enthusiasm, and it fits a pattern across Alexander’s shorts, where who takes charge is part of the heat rather than an afterthought.

Where it struggles is scale, and the evidence for that is mostly in what is missing. At this length the long tease can only be sketched rather than built, and no reviewer says a word about the characters as people. Not one of the three written reviews mentions a name, a job or a backstory; all three talk about the heat. That is fine for erotica and thin for romance. The other warning sign is the platform split. Nobody explains why in a written review I could see, so treat it as a small but real signal that not every reader got what they wanted — and the most likely reason is expectation.

That is the expectation to reset. The title and the romance shelving suggest a love story, but this is closer to one erotic encounter with a happy-for-now tag at the end, and the blurb does not flag the D/s element. If you want two butches falling in love, calibrate; if you want two butches finally giving in at the office party, it is exactly what it says.

My honest note: A sharp, hot, deliberately tiny butch-for-butch short that does one thing well and does not try to do anything else. If you want a relationship, go longer; if you want the scene, this is a well-reviewed way to spend twenty minutes.

Element	In Celebrate Me
Central relationship	Two butch coworkers whose long-running teasing boils over — butch/butch
Core tropes	Butch/butch, workplace romance, office party, sexual tension, D/s dynamic, HFN
Setting	A company office party
Heat level	5/5 — explicit erotic short (derived; not listed on romance.io)
Series	Steamy Friday Night Shorts (Goodreads) / Butches at Work (Amazon) — standalone short, ends with an HFN
Content notes	Explicit sexual content, D/s dynamic, strap-on play, workplace sex; the author directs readers to her website for full content warnings, which I could not load

How Spicy Is Celebrate Me?

A 5/5, with a note about where the number comes from. romance.io does not list this title at all — its catalogue carries Alexander’s other books but not this one — so the band is derived. The book is sold as a steamy short, Goodreads readers shelve it as erotica and nothing else, and every written review is about the heat. The story is short enough that the explicit content is the story, not an interruption to it.

The one thing worth knowing in advance is the D/s dynamic, which a five-star reader says caught them by surprise because the description does not mention it. One reader’s joke about a colleague who is always strapped at work points to a strap-on. No reviewer flags anything beyond that, but with only three written reviews, that is a small sample; the author points readers to her site for content warnings. For butch-leaning books at the same top heat band, Bring Me Home and At Her Service sit at the same level.

Who Should Read This Book?

You’ll likely love it if: you want two butches together on the page, you read short erotica for a single well-built scene, you enjoy a power dynamic where someone takes charge, and a happy-for-now close is all the ending you need.

You may want to skip it if: you want the relationship developed rather than implied, you need characters with backstory and interiority, you prefer your kink flagged in the blurb, or you want a full romance with an HEA.

In short: a short, hot butch-for-butch scene that readers rate highly, at the cost of any real romance arc.

What Readers Are Actually Saying (September 2026)

There is almost no discourse around this book, and that is the finding. It has 18 Goodreads ratings and three written reviews, 9 Amazon ratings with no written review I could see on the listing, a StoryGraph page with no community reviews showing, and no romance.io entry. I found no blog or trade coverage and no audiobook. Its Kindle Store sales rank sat around 288,000 when I checked, which means it sells occasionally rather than steadily. Discovery looks author-driven: readers appear to arrive through Alexander’s other butch-for-butch work, and at least one five-star reviewer writes as someone who already expects her to bring the heat. The book’s earlier life as The Office Party may also mean some readers met it under the old title.

Why readers love it (according to the discourse): The heat, first and last — it is the only element every written review discusses. One reader calls the smut a chef’s kiss and says they had no complaints. Second, the D/s dynamic, praised by a reader who did not see it coming. Third, the specific workplace fantasy: one four-star reader jokes that they are not at all jealous of the narrator being whisked away to a colleague’s office. And one reader rates the writing itself as fantastic. On Goodreads, 10 of the 18 ratings are five stars and 6 are four; nobody there has rated it below three.

What readers argue about and complain about: Nobody complains in writing, which is itself informative — the sample is too small to carry a complaint. The only sign of dissent is numerical. With single-digit ratings, one unhappy reader moves the number a long way, so this is not a theme. It is, though, the most plausible shape of a disappointment for a 5,000-word short: a reader expecting a romance who got a scene.

The standalone question worth asking first: Celebrate Me stands alone. The description says it ends with an HFN, and no reviewer reports a cliffhanger. Goodreads places it in the Steamy Friday Night Shorts alongside two other stories about different couples: Light My Candles averages 4.08 across 37 ratings and Bring Me Home, another butch-for-butch short, averages 4.30 across 66. That makes Celebrate Me the highest-rated and least-read of the three. If you want Alexander’s butch-for-butch writing at full length, Higher averages 4.16 across 81 Goodreads ratings.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Celebrate Me a butch/butch romance?

Yes. The subtitle bills it as a butch-for-butch short, and the description is about two butches at work. It is closer to erotica than a full romance, at about 5,000 words.

How spicy is Celebrate Me by Roz Alexander?

A 5/5, derived rather than rated. romance.io does not list it, but it is sold as a steamy short, shelved as erotica, and readers review it for its heat, including a D/s dynamic.

Does Celebrate Me have a happy ending?

A happy-for-now one. The official description says the short ends with an HFN, and no reviewer reports a cliffhanger. Do not expect an epilogue or an HEA.

Is Celebrate Me the same book as The Office Party?

Yes. The Amazon and Goodreads listings both note that Celebrate Me was previously published as The Office Party. If you already own that edition, you have read this story.

Is there a Celebrate Me audiobook?

Not that I could find. Libro.fm does not stock one, and the only edition I found on Amazon is the Kindle ebook.

If You Loved Celebrate Me, Read These Next

For the closest match in form and heat, Bring Me Home is the same author’s other butch-for-butch short, about twice as long, with a kink edge and an open, hopeful ending. If you want the pairing with room for an actual relationship, Higher puts two butches — and the question of who tops whom — into a full novella at 4/5 heat. And if you want butch4butch heat inside a full adventure plot, Jagged Shard takes the pairing into a dungeon fantasy.

For more in this register, browse our butch/butch lesbian romance guide or the full Book Reviews collection.

The Bottom Line

Celebrate Me sets out to do one thing: put two butch coworkers in a room at the office party and let the teasing finish what it started. The heat is what every reader talks about, the D/s dynamic is a welcome surprise, and the writing earns praise from the one reviewer who mentions it. It is also a story too short to build a relationship, characters no reviewer describes, and a small, mixed rating base that hints that not every reader got what they came for. If you came for the scene, it is worth it. Check Celebrate Me on Amazon →

The Eikna Overall Ranking

On the Eikna scale, Celebrate Me ranks as a small, hot indie butch/butch erotic short — well-liked by the few who have reviewed it and honest about its size, held back by a page count that leaves no room for romance, and best approached for the office-party scene rather than a love story.