The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Drew is a journalist who is out of work and out of luck. She returns home to her father who is suddenly out of work as well. Drew reunites with her BFF and her BFF gets her into multi-level marketing. It is all good, or not so good, until Drew realizes that people are dying from the products and one of the distributors is killed.

The Good – Not entirely sure this is the place to start. I mean, I could skip this section and it wouldn’t change my review very much. The novel read very fast. I didn’t have any problems picking it up and getting through it. There were some funny moments where the author did facebook type marketing posts from some of the distributors. She definitely played up the worst aspects of MLM for the book and it worked for the most part. I believe there might have been some language issues, definitely lots of alcohol use, but no sexual scenes.

The Bad – This book was like Stepford Wives but didn’t quite pull off the dark humor, which made it more depressing and sad. Some of the characters weren’t believable. I did not for one minute buy into who the murderer was for the first murder. The author also had us try and believe that the best friend was the murderer for a minute, which was also unbelievable.

The most unbelievable part is towards the end, when confronting the killer, the BFF runs out of the house with our main character and leaves the killer in the house with her children sleeping upstairs. No way. No mother would do that. I would die before I left my kids in that situation. It is clear through her constant stabs at marriage and family that the author is not a fan of either, but you need to be able to understand what a mother would do in that situation if you are going to write about it.

The Ugly – Nothing particularly ugly. The whole book was just rather depressing. It paints stay at home women as some sort of victim that is bored and needs to do MLM to find fulfillment. Then, once they become girl bosses, they can retire their husbands who are all deadbeats anyways. Pretty bleak outlook.