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There's nothing like a cheating boyfriend to make you reconsider your life.
And for Paris Tehrani, an impromptu move to Manhattan is the perfect reset button. Determined to avoid crawling back to her dead-end life in California, Paris applies for an assistant position to a hedge fund CEO. Sure, she's not totally qualified for the position, but who is these days? Fake it till you make it, right?
Wrong. All too quickly, Paris realizes her "job" is to cater to the whims of a maniacal dictator intent on ruining her day and possibly even her life. Between ducking her new employer's random tantrums, arranging his exotic entertainment, balancing office politics, and nurturing a new relationship, Paris can't possibly keep her head above water. But when she discovers incriminating evidence against the CEO, information that could take her down in the process, she finds herself faced with a decision sacrifice her life and dignity for the job or her chance at a real future.
Download The Everything Girl A Novel eBook LE Maleki Holly L Lörincz
"L. Maleki's The Everything Girl is marketed as a multi-cultural Devil Wears Prada. Paris Tehrani has suffered a bad breakup and decides to move to New York City to get away from her beloved, traditional father in California and from her ex. Determined to forge her own path, Paris gets a job as an executive assistant to a powerful hedge fund manager who is demanding, unstable, and detached. She tries to balance her personal relationships with her insane work schedule, and this causes her much grief. There really wasn't a whole lot more to this story. Reading about her boss' crazy exploits is only entertaining for so long, and the secondary characters almost feel like an afterthought. The fact that her father's tax services business is failing largely due to the fact that his last name is "Tehrani" is only briefly mentioned. I think there was an opportunity for this novel to be what it is marketed to be, but unfortunately, it just fell short."
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The Everything Girl A Novel eBook LE Maleki Holly L Lörincz Reviews :
The Everything Girl A Novel eBook LE Maleki Holly L Lörincz Reviews
- Great summer read, quick, fun and captivating. Loved the humor in it. Not a lot of people could do that job. It takes a certain kind of person. Good luck!
- Loved this book! Took it on vacation and could not put it down. I would recommend it to all the ladies!
- I did not enjoy this book.
Moving aside from my visceral reaction, let me try to parse out exactly why I didn't like it
-it's unbelievable
-it's highly derivative of, like, many other books in a similar genre
-none of the characters are particularly likeable.
Paris Tehrani wants to escape her ex-boyfriend and her finance job, so she decides to move to New York where she lives on a friend's couch while looking for a job. This being a novel, she of course walks right into a job almost immediately an executive assistant for a high powered hedge fund manager. (Never mind that someone with a finance degree and years of related experience managing accounts would be unlikely to take a job fetching coffee for the sake of "being near" the man who makes the decisions, ignore that. Also ignore that she feels pressured into taking up smoking because it's NYC and everyone else does - what is this, the '90s?)
Obviously an apartment follows almost immediately, a super cheap sublet on the UWS. Because that's how NYC works. And of course also she meets an amazing man at a bar on one of her first nights in the city, and they keep running into each other. You've seen this plot before... it's all a set up to get to the bad-behaving boss! And he is bad behaving. And she tolerates it, at the expense of her friendships and her relationship.
There are some side stories that just aren't interesting the exboyfriend who follows her out to NYC and then gets engaged (to someone else) a few weeks later, her father's business collapsing because he's Iranian and no one (in southern California, home to one of the largest Iranian diaspora communities...) is willing to use a SCARY MIDDLE EASTERN accountant; her former roommate gets pregnant accidentally and finds out the gender during an ultrasound at 9 weeks (and does non-stress tests for the baby at 9 weeks... the author has obviously never known anyone pregnant). Meanwhile Paris nurtures her photography skills, which you know that despite the long odds, and despite her unwillingness to put any time or effort into learning, are going to be what saves her from her job.
The end of the book is truly terrible, though when Paris thinks she's discovered that her boss is committing fraud, she tries to blackmail him. Somehow this is spun into her doing something good? But instead, it just shows who she is, which is an unlikeable character with few redeeming qualities. - A lot of us have worked for the 'boss from hell'. This boss appears to run the place. Seriously, I had a hard time reading this because I kept thinking, 'Honey, just walk away'. The guy has a long line of damaged former assistants, and by 'damaged' I mean emotionally destroyed, some unable to even work again.
It's a good story, with characters you love to hate (and love to love). The protagonist, a young woman named Paris, is smart and talented and the only thing she seems to be missing is a backbone, in both her professional and personal life. Her former boyfriend, who treated her shabbily, still has her on his backlist any time he's got a spare minute, and she lets it happen. Ugh. Her boss makes her babysit his son, a nice enough kid (God knows how THAT happened) with really bad parents. She is forced to attend the kid's sporting events and record them for dad, should he ever find the time and inclination to view them (unlikely since he spends most of his time with prostitutes). And she does it. All-in-all, it's a frustrating thing to read because I really LIKED the woman and at the same time I wanted to give her a kick up the backside for putting up with this stuff.
There's also a bit of a mystery here since *someone* is playing fast and loose with some of the company's financial doings. Paris takes a bit of time to figure out who it is, though the clues were all right in front of her.
I'd call this a decent summer beach read but nothing to think long and hard about. - This book really surprised me at how well it held my interest, in fact I finished it in record time, finding it hard to want to get to a stopping point. The story follows Paris (no, not that one) Tehrani, an Iranian-American who sets off to start a new life in New York after a bad breakup. She lands a job at a high profile hedge fund, only to be used and abused by her eccentric (putting it mildly) but genius boss. This story basically follows Paris' life as she fights to keep her boss in check, both professionally and personally. It also includes some new romance for Paris, along with her having to balance friendships while still maintaining her nightmare of a job. All this plus she is a devoted Daddy's girl who discovers her Dad needs her care also. The book was mainly interesting because of her boss' antics, and how competent she is while remaining mostly calm. For me what made the story good but also horrifying is that it is co-written by a real assistant at a real hedge fund in NYC. Let's hope that the tantrums and such are extremely embellished. A good light read.
- L. Maleki's The Everything Girl is marketed as a multi-cultural Devil Wears Prada. Paris Tehrani has suffered a bad breakup and decides to move to New York City to get away from her beloved, traditional father in California and from her ex. Determined to forge her own path, Paris gets a job as an executive assistant to a powerful hedge fund manager who is demanding, unstable, and detached. She tries to balance her personal relationships with her insane work schedule, and this causes her much grief. There really wasn't a whole lot more to this story. Reading about her boss' crazy exploits is only entertaining for so long, and the secondary characters almost feel like an afterthought. The fact that her father's tax services business is failing largely due to the fact that his last name is "Tehrani" is only briefly mentioned. I think there was an opportunity for this novel to be what it is marketed to be, but unfortunately, it just fell short.
