baronessekat | 2024 Reading Challenge: a book with a title that is a complete sentense

You Should Smile More by Anastasia Ryan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For several years, Vanessa has worked for a small telemarketing firm. She hates it - the guy in charge is a complete self-centered wack-a-doodle - but it lets her pay her rent and take care of her foster kittens.

Then one day she is called into the conference room where he is let go because "We don't like your face". The boss says her resting b*tch face gives off bad vibes and shows she has a dark soul not cut out for the business. Never mind that she always hits her targets and is one of the best producing people on the team. She refuses to sign the paperwork to get the laughable excuse for severance pay, and files for unemployment. Through the unemployment office, she learns that no one who has ever been terminated from that company has ever requested unemployment insurance. That is quickly followed by her old boss sabotaging future job prospects.

After a drunken night with her former work besties, they hatch a plot for revenge. And they all learn more about themselves and their old company than the ever imagined.

+++++

This book was an absolute hysterical fun ride. Was it great literature? No. But it was a book that made me laugh all the way through and live out my revenge fantasies fror a heinous toxic job that I left not too long ago. I'm pretty sure the author wrote this as a revenge fantasy/satire and that is perfectly OK.

The one thing I will say is that many classify this as a rom-com book. But the "rom" part is so minor that it almost didn't need to be there. I think this would have worked just find as a Chick-lit comedy.

I have already told MANY friends they are in the rotation for this book. Highly recommend if you want light hearted fun.

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