Heartbreak for Hire: A Novel
Written by Sonia Hartl
Narrated by Shaina Summerville
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Brinkley Saunders has a secret.
To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her mother’s footsteps, she’s now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency—or so they think.
In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare and a man who needs to be taken down a notch. It might not be as prestigious as academia, but it helps Brinkley save for her dream of opening an art gallery and lets her exorcise a few demons, all while helping to empower women.
But when her boss announces she’s hiring male heartbreakers for the first time, Brinkley’s no longer so sure she’s doing the right thing—especially when her new coworker turns out to be a target she was paid to take down. Though Mark spends his days struggling up the academic ladder, he seems to be the opposite of a backstabbing adjunct: a nerd at heart in criminally sexy sweater vests who’s attentive both in and out of the bedroom. But as Brinkley finds it increasingly more difficult to focus on anything but Mark, she soon realizes that like herself, people aren’t always who they appear to be.
With Sonia Hartl’s “bitingly funny” (Publishers Weekly) prose, Heartbreak for Hire is a clever romcom you and your girlfriends won’t be able to stop talking about.
Sonia Hartl
Sonia Hartl is the author of Heartbreak for Hire, as well as YA novels The Lost Girls, Not Your #Lovestory, and Have a Little Faith in Me. When she’s not writing or reading, she enjoys playing board games with her family, attempting to keep her garden alive, or looking up craft projects on Pinterest she’ll never get around to completing. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her husband and two daughters. Follow her on Twitter @SoniaHartl1.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A premise for which it was far too difficult to suspend disbelief, with an unbearable main character who caused all her own problems. It didn’t make any sense why the love interest kept pursuing her. The constant digs about academia just felt petty, and family drama shoved in at the very end was just weird. Not to mention the over-the-top “feminism” was just irritating. No thanks.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was so much fun, had me laughing constantly... just loved it.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was a DNF for me, which is rare. I usually force myself through to the end. But I found I neither liked nor hated this book enough to care about how it turned out.
In spite of a seemingly unique premise, and the author's best efforts, the characters in this book just came across flat, and the events of the plot just too unbelievable to even care about. There just wasn't anything to really grab onto and relate to, in spite of a leading man who would normally appeal to me.
Ultimately, this review could have been one word long: MEH.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pretty cute story. Your typical romantic novel and I definitely enjoyed it.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The premise was interesting enough to keep me listening... but it's not very well executed. The characters are mostly one dimensional, the situations and interactions don't feel real or realistic. I kept thinking "this would never happen..." also the ending was a bit of an anticlimax, it felt like, it's a romantic comedy so she has to make up with the guy and her mom at the end, but it wasn't very convincing at all.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I could easily see this being turned into a movie if they focused more on the relationships of the heartbreakers. I enjoyed it!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The story was better than many other rom-com books. I thought that the premise had enough going on to potentially make a screen play or a miniseries. The narrator was also very good and could put a lot of emotion into the story.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nah for me. I hated the love interest, not interested in asshole dudes. Too much trauma, not enough empathy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Eh, this was okay but too drawn out. The ending irritated me because people don't just make decisions like that based on off-handed comments. The MC was annoying and not endearing. Sure wasn't living true to get values but expected everyone else to?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Super fun read. I loved the concept behind ‘sticking it’ to an ex by becoming a heart breaker. The growth the mc goes growth is amazing.