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Heartbreak for Hire
by Sonia Hartl
Brinkley grew without a father and a cold, academic mother who was more concerned about her career than her child. Disappointing her mother Brinkley decides she wants to switch majors to art. Later Brinkley's bad break up with a boyfriend who was using her to gain connection in the academic world Brinkley leaves college and she is cultivated by the owner of Heartbreak for Hire, which is a company where people (mostly women) hire someone to take down a troublesome male. This is Brinkley's perfect vengeance against egoistic men. She will use the money she earns with these jobs to save for an art gallery of her own but her last job was someone that doesn't seem to fit the bill and she is instantly attracted to him. She runs out on the job only to have him show up later when the owner decides to add men to the company. Can she really trust him as a partner and is the owner *really* on the side of women or is she just using downtrodden women to further her profit?
I tend to dislike romances where sex and lust comes first before love. However, I did like the part as the women employees at Heartbreak for Hire start to question their work and whether or not it is helping their self-esteem as the owner claims. I liked how it showed that it's not only men that take advantage of emotionally distraught women with poor self esteem, which is my take the owner of Heartbreak for Hire. Ultimately the saving grace of this story for me personally was the character development as some of the women decide to quit and pursue their dreams rather than continue to fall prey to the owner's manipulations as well as Brinkley's decision to confront her feelings of inadequacy that lead her to self-sabotage herself.
I tend to dislike romances where sex and lust comes first before love. However, I did like the part as the women employees at Heartbreak for Hire start to question their work and whether or not it is helping their self-esteem as the owner claims. I liked how it showed that it's not only men that take advantage of emotionally distraught women with poor self esteem, which is my take the owner of Heartbreak for Hire. Ultimately the saving grace of this story for me personally was the character development as some of the women decide to quit and pursue their dreams rather than continue to fall prey to the owner's manipulations as well as Brinkley's decision to confront her feelings of inadequacy that lead her to self-sabotage herself.