Reviews

Pink Slip by Rita Ciresi

therealkathryn's review against another edition

4.0

Sometimes a book hits you just right even as you can tell it's not a great book. Something about the characters, their situation and the mood I was in all combined to make this a kind of sleeper favorite of mine.

dostoyevskyism's review against another edition

dnfed. I couldn’t stick till the end. some aspects of this book didn’t age well, I was willing to ignore them but every chapter got boring halfway through, and I hated how the mc went into long rigmaroles after every two paragraphs. It got so tedious. Some people might like to read every minute details of the characters’ lives but I am not one of them.
I felt so icky about the male lead’s character; he was dominating, patronising, forceful, selfish, and made his girlfriend do things according to his comfort. I couldn’t invest myself in their relationship. Having said all this, I think the comedy of manners in this book was quite great. The author effortlessly managed to depict a realistic image of a contemporary society and its affectations and artificiality with her smart and pointed writing.

notflyspeck's review against another edition

4.0

It was a good read and good writing. I loved how flawed the main character was. I thought it was all fluff and all those typical corporate world affairs, but it was much more than that.

srah's review against another edition

3.0

I had this sitting on my shelf for about a year before I got around to reading it. I figured - from the design and text of the covers - that it would be a fluffy vacation read, but it was a lot deeper and more serious than I expected it to be, and now I'm sorry that I put off reading it for as long as I did.

And I'm glad Cheryl lent me a few other Rita Ciresi books, because I think she has a fascinating voice.