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THE RECEPCIONIST



SYNOPSIS

Emily is a top talent agent who rules the land of talk shows and reality TV. Whip-smart and brutally practical, she outmaneuvers all rivals…except in her personal life. Emily willfully ignores her CEO husband Doug’s philandering in exchange for their glamorous one-percenter lifestyle, until a surprise pregnancy changes everything.

A TED-Talking business guru with a reckless streak, Doug embarks on an audacious relationship with Chloe, the stunning young receptionist at his market research firm. But Chloe has a secret: a volatile past she’s desperate to forget. Their chaotic entanglement sets off a chain of shocking scandals, plunging Emily into a scheming fight for survival.

As they each try to fight their way to the top, there’s only one question: How far will Emily go to protect her child and preserve her carefully curated life?


Title: The recepcionist
Author: Kate Myles
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Publication date: August 1, 2021


REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐

Oh boy, not gonna lie, it was quite a struggle to finish this one.

I had seen some great reviews by some of my most trusted book friends so I was expecting to love it too. Sadly, I didn’t. The opening was great with a very intriguing prologue and a first chapter where Emily and Chloe, the wife and the mistress, meet for the first time, but for me it all went downhill from there.

After such a promising start the story focuses only on Emily and her story the previous years, dragging quite a lot and making me lose interest pretty early on. Then the story forgets about Emily and focuses on Chloe and Doug, and it almost made me wish it would have stayed with Emily! I HATED all three characters! They were horrible people and could not, for the sake of me, find any redeemable trait in any of them. This made that I could not care less about what happen to any of them.

It could have been saved if at least the story managed to hold my attention but I found all the scheme with the data, the App Store, the money…pretty boring as well. Can we talk for a minute about Chloe’s group performances? OMG, it was so cringey! No wonder they needed day jobs! Some parts felt really disjointed, not adding much to the plot and being there only as another way to show how disgusting the characters were (the scene in the car with the driver was in such bad taste!).

The last quarter picked up the pace a little bit but was not enough to save all of the above.

With a very promising beginning, the narrative structure and some really dislikable characters made of what could have been a pretty decent domestic suspense a truly forgettable one.

Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.



 

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