Charlotte
works for a chauvinistic, arrogant, lazy boss, who often accuses her of not
doing the job she was hired for. As a party/event planner, she’s supposed to
set trends and motivate the employees. In fact, the office title on her plaque
reads “Spreader,” as in spreader of cheers. Too funny! She has that holiday
office party to prove to him that she can do this. If she can’t spread it at the Christmas party,
then she’s out of a job.
I enjoyed
this story for the most part. Charlotte’s boss is so irritating that it makes
it harder for her. He makes her feel so incapable and dumb. How was she going
to make a miserable company happy? Working in a boys club, she has to come up
with “extreme and fearless” ideas. But what? If the boss is bored at the party,
she’s fired. Yeah, no pressure. How dare he actually tells her to put an ad for
her job in case she screws up and has to hire her replacement. Really?! Grrrrr!
I totally
get the plight of the worker, especially when dealing with an impossible boss.
As we get
closer to the party, the everyday banalities hit big time, which made the
reading less interesting. What’s with the day-to-day play? The party prepping
took forever. Kinda long for a novella. There was really no mystery to this.
Yeah, we have that mass murder and, for some reason, the only thing that
Charlotte can obsess over is where to hold the party now?
A decent
read though.
My rating: 3 stars
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