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Working Girls: Money, Power & Love

Tekijä: Shavon Jones

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They were looking for Money, Power and Love and they found themselves . . . When 4 young women join a Fortune 100 Company directly after university, they think they know the path to money, power and love. Their story begins on orientation day at the Philadelphia headquarters of a daunting conglomerate as the junior executive trainees put their hidden agendas in motion. Celeste is an Ivy League educated, career-obsessed opportunist who plans to work her way to the top, her competitors and husband be damned. Amy views the Company as a pit stop in route to motherhood. Sarah wants to use the Company as a canvas for her creativity. And Paige is more interested in her boss than she is in her job. As time passes, they discover that what they didn’t know about the Company, their competitors and themselves may place their ambitions in jeopardy. Ultimately the day arrives when each woman must decide who she really is, what she truly wants and what she is prepared to pay for it.… (lisätietoja)

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näyttää 3/3

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This book followed new hires at an unnamed company through their training and many years beyond. The descriptions felt realistic, and made me relieved I'm no longer in that world, with all its ambition, infighting, and corporate-speak. (

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ennie | Aug 2, 2016 |

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Working Girls: Money Power & Love is about 4 women, Sarah, Amy, Paige and Celeste who join a Fortune 100 Company directly after graduating from college. Their story begins on orientation day at the "Company". The Company needs a name. I would have enjoyed the story more if the author had focused on one of the women preferably Celeste. Celeste was ruthless at the company; but in trying to have it all she neglects her husband, daughter and health. I identified more with Amy and maybe Sarah. Paige could have been left out entirely. But I think the story should have focused on Celeste more. (

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SandraDorton | Jan 4, 2013 |

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Here is an overview of what the beta readers said: Part I starts slowly as the characters and plot are introduced, but once they arrived at Part II (starting with the chapter called "Office Romance"), most beta readers were unable to put it down until the end. They reported being fully invested in the characters and had to find out what happened to them, even if it meant reading until 2 or 3 am. Most women could see some of themselves in one or more of the characters, and the male readers were happy that the story "didn't beat up on men." Everyone who read it reported learning something useful while be thoroughly entertained. In my next novel, I'm going to choose an opening chapter that grabs the reader from the start. (

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I also liked that author Shavon Jones doesn’t shy away from the thorny issues that can sometimes accompany work-life. Working Girls tackles the intersections of racial, gender, and sexual politics with an honesty that is not often found in her genre.

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They were looking for Money, Power and Love and they found themselves . . . When 4 young women join a Fortune 100 Company directly after university, they think they know the path to money, power and love. Their story begins on orientation day at the Philadelphia headquarters of a daunting conglomerate as the junior executive trainees put their hidden agendas in motion. Celeste is an Ivy League educated, career-obsessed opportunist who plans to work her way to the top, her competitors and husband be damned. Amy views the Company as a pit stop in route to motherhood. Sarah wants to use the Company as a canvas for her creativity. And Paige is more interested in her boss than she is in her job. As time passes, they discover that what they didn’t know about the Company, their competitors and themselves may place their ambitions in jeopardy. Ultimately the day arrives when each woman must decide who she really is, what she truly wants and what she is prepared to pay for it.

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