My name is Macey Malloy. My world is
chaotic. In the midst of mysterious deaths and scary happenings, you’ll be
meeting a very diverse group of people. You’ll also be right here with me as I
start my new job as the Employee Relations director at a university. You would think
with that job title, I’d be better with people. But no.
On her first
day at work, Macey gets accosted by an enraged widow, who claims the university
caused her husband’s suicide. Could it be because Macey was a dead ringer for
the last Employee Relations director?
Story was a
little slow on the up-keep. First of all, I thought it had way too many
characters to keep track of. You would think that I’d remember them all
considering they were introduced at the beginning of the book like some
playwright script; but I didn’t. Second, how interesting could the life of an
Employee Relations director be? It’s really not. I felt like I was muddling
through most of it, and I was waiting (hoping, really) for somebody to die
already.
There were
some traces of biting wit, but it wasn’t enough to sustain the story. There
were a few things that could’ve been simplified more, like the list of
characters, for instance. Also, I wish we would’ve gotten to the nitty-gritty
faster rather than whittle through banalities.
My rating: 2.5 stars
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