Cheri's Book Blog

I really disliked this book and wouldn't have finished it if I didn't need to read a book that started with the letter P. There were several reasons why I didn't like it so I'll share just a couple of them here.

I found the Tate character to be completely unlikable and sleazy in her business practices. She's angry, mean, untrustworthy, and a bully. I've worked with execs in one of the largest companies in the country for nearly a decade and I've never seen any executive, at any level, act like Tate. Well, that's not true, there was one and he was tossed out on his ass specifically for his behavior.

One of the other big things that didn't sit right with me was sending these two people who want to buy a failing company around the world to tour parts of the failing company with the failing company's CEO. Two of the companies involved were going broke. Who paid for that? But more importantly, why?

And finally, Tate's speech at the end to Victoria about how she's a totally different person and how Victoria changed her just didn't feel possible or believable. I honestly thought that when Victoria rejected her bizarre proposal to give up her job, come and sit on "the throne" with Tate, and they can rule the world, that would have been the perfect ending because everything that Victoria said in her rejection was true. It was a terrible idea and went against everything that Victoria claimed to be.

I went back and forth for quite awhile on whether to give 1 or 2 stars but, after looking at Goodreads labeling for them, I had to go with 1 because I "didn't like it."