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The Futures
by Anna Pitoniak
Parts of this book were so relatable, especially the panic of sudden adulthood and feeling like everyone else has everything figured out except for you. However both Evan and Julia really started grating on my nerves with her entitlement and woe is me BS and his tunnel vision and ignorance. The speed of the story and the writing was good, but you don't feel at all bad for either characters when it all falls apart.
High level plot points:
*Evan starts basically living at work and ignoring Julia while working on his company's big secret deal with his boss.
*Julia finally gets a job at a foundation started by a very wealthy husband and wife who are friends of her family. She makes a frenemy at the office and it turns out the frenemy is having an affair with husband.
*Julia starts having an affair with an old classmate who is not a reporter while Evan and her relationship starts to fall apart because of his apathy and her general misery of not knowing what to do with her life.
*Evan learns that the huge deal he's been working on is super illegal and it turns out he might be the scapegoat for his boss who was not just being a kindly mentor.
*Evan tells Julia everything and she tells him to handle it. And in a spectacularly asshole move drunkenly and emotionally spews everything to her financial reporter fuck buddy behind Evan's back because she's a mess who also got fired from her assistant job. (I can't remember his name, just that he's the worst)
*The Worst (seriously, can't remember his name so that's he'll be called now) of course writes up a scathing expose that hits the newspapers and stops answering any of Julia's calls or texts.
*Also turns out that The Worst had sexually assaulted Julia back when they were in college so this betrayal is just big grainy salt on that wound that she buried and pretended wasn't festering.
*Evan figures out that the front page news is all thanks to Julia and they break up. She moves back home and learns that she was fired not because of budgetary issues, but because her boss thought she was the one having he affair with the foundation founder! It's fine, the frenemy gets fired too, basically anyone that was ever an assistant slept with him and when the wife found out she cleaned house.
*Evan also loses his job because no one can trust him and he can never work on a deal at that company again without fear of the FCC so he gets a huge severance package and goes back to his first love of hockey at a camp.
*Julia eventually comes back to NYC after months of hiding out at her parents and doing nothing, but wallow.
*She gets her shit together and she goes to see him and they get back together for round 2.
*The End*
High level plot points:
*Evan starts basically living at work and ignoring Julia while working on his company's big secret deal with his boss.
*Julia finally gets a job at a foundation started by a very wealthy husband and wife who are friends of her family. She makes a frenemy at the office and it turns out the frenemy is having an affair with husband.
*Julia starts having an affair with an old classmate who is not a reporter while Evan and her relationship starts to fall apart because of his apathy and her general misery of not knowing what to do with her life.
*Evan learns that the huge deal he's been working on is super illegal and it turns out he might be the scapegoat for his boss who was not just being a kindly mentor.
*Evan tells Julia everything and she tells him to handle it. And in a spectacularly asshole move drunkenly and emotionally spews everything to her financial reporter fuck buddy behind Evan's back because she's a mess who also got fired from her assistant job. (I can't remember his name, just that he's the worst)
*The Worst (seriously, can't remember his name so that's he'll be called now) of course writes up a scathing expose that hits the newspapers and stops answering any of Julia's calls or texts.
*Also turns out that The Worst had sexually assaulted Julia back when they were in college so this betrayal is just big grainy salt on that wound that she buried and pretended wasn't festering.
*Evan figures out that the front page news is all thanks to Julia and they break up. She moves back home and learns that she was fired not because of budgetary issues, but because her boss thought she was the one having he affair with the foundation founder! It's fine, the frenemy gets fired too, basically anyone that was ever an assistant slept with him and when the wife found out she cleaned house.
*Evan also loses his job because no one can trust him and he can never work on a deal at that company again without fear of the FCC so he gets a huge severance package and goes back to his first love of hockey at a camp.
*Julia eventually comes back to NYC after months of hiding out at her parents and doing nothing, but wallow.
*She gets her shit together and she goes to see him and they get back together for round 2.
*The End*