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A review by hideyourspoons
The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella
5.0
The Burnout is the book to read now. Now, as in, before you go to work to answer more emails than there are hours in a day. Before you have one more day of being overworked and under appreciated. Before, like FMC Sasha, you're ready to give it all up and pledge yourself to the life of a nun to avoid one more manifest positivity wellness survey from HR.
There is so much contemporary familiarity in Sasha's life, but there's also campy comedy & a cozy mystery to solve. The secondary characters that run the hotel feel straight out of a Monty Python sketch. These hotel scenes are timed out like the dinner party scene in You Can't Take It With You. The audience thinks everyone is ridiculous (and they are) but things like tastes-like-swamp kale smoothies, an overly effusive apologetic manager, and a receptionist with a custom embroidered thong side gig is all just another day for the hotel crew.
Our couple also has a lovely bit of action to adventure into while they rekindle their calm (and maybe fall in love too). Mysterious messages are written in the sand out front of their beach lodges. Reminiscing on their childhood spent at the same resort they now are riding out their respective burnout episodes leads them to clues, old friends, and new discoveries about themselves.
The whole book is a ride. And the ride is it. The Burnout will be a very poignant read for anyone stuck, under appreciated, overwhelmed in work or life. This is a hopeful story though, and not just depression porn. Its relatable, hilarious, and would make a well timed read for when the winter blues set it.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group & The Dial Press for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.
There is so much contemporary familiarity in Sasha's life, but there's also campy comedy & a cozy mystery to solve. The secondary characters that run the hotel feel straight out of a Monty Python sketch. These hotel scenes are timed out like the dinner party scene in You Can't Take It With You. The audience thinks everyone is ridiculous (and they are) but things like tastes-like-swamp kale smoothies, an overly effusive apologetic manager, and a receptionist with a custom embroidered thong side gig is all just another day for the hotel crew.
Our couple also has a lovely bit of action to adventure into while they rekindle their calm (and maybe fall in love too). Mysterious messages are written in the sand out front of their beach lodges. Reminiscing on their childhood spent at the same resort they now are riding out their respective burnout episodes leads them to clues, old friends, and new discoveries about themselves.
The whole book is a ride. And the ride is it. The Burnout will be a very poignant read for anyone stuck, under appreciated, overwhelmed in work or life. This is a hopeful story though, and not just depression porn. Its relatable, hilarious, and would make a well timed read for when the winter blues set it.
Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group & The Dial Press for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.