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Money, it’s a crime

The Assistants by Camille Perri

August 12, 2020 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

CBR12 Bingo: Money! If this didn’t fit so perfectly into a Bingo square, I probably wouldn’t bother to review it. I probably wouldn’t have bothered to finish reading it. Tina Fontana is the personal assistant to Robert Barlow, an all-powerful media executive who basically the controls the news. He’s a billionaire, she makes $40,000 a year (Do men like Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch really pay their assistants so poorly? Eat the rich). A mistake on an expense report leaves her with an extra check […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: camille perri, cbr12bingo, college students, New York City, student loans

Ellesfena's CBR12 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: camille perri, cbr12bingo, college students, New York City, student loans ·
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The female characters in 9 to 5 would probably approve

September 11, 2016 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

3.5 stars. The Assistants is just the kind of book that’s fun to read, but hard to find anything to say about it. To be fair, it probably would have been easier to review if I was up to date on my reviews and not writing it a month after finishing it. Yikes. Tina Fontana is the assistant to Robert Barlow, a multinational media mogul in the vein of Rupert Murdoch. He’s richer than God but Tina is the underpaid lackey who makes his life […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: camille perri, Fiction, the assistants

yesknopemaybe's CBR8 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: camille perri, Fiction, the assistants ·
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