This is a great girl-power book. Our heroine, Maddy, was dumped by her boyfriend over email. This would be one thing if they'd only gone out a few times or something. But no. He was her live-in boyfriend, and they'd been together four years. Not only that, but they started a company together, and Maddy did everything you're not supposed to do if you don't want someone to steal your ideas and be able to oust you from a company you helped found that was based on your idea. Carlton, her ex, had a rich and sociopathic dad who said he'd only fund their venture if Carlton was CEO and Maddy didn't get any shares in the company.
So anyway, Maddy is left with no boyfriend and no career (another downside to working with your significant other. You can't console yourself about the breakup by saying at least your career is going well. Two life spheres down in one shot). She decides she needs to take revenge on Carlton. Actually, she decides he needs to die. She experiments with some different methods--poison brownies, carbon monoxide. The main problem is that she is more suicidal than homicidal at this point and nearly offs herself. With the connections of her formerly drug-addicted brother she hires a hit man.
While I obviously don't advocate more illegal and violent forms of revenge, certain other types of revenge can be fun and won't land you in jail. This book is loads of fun to read for anyone, but especially if you are in need of a feeling of solidarity (and revenge ideas, of which this book has several). There is even a section at the back where people sent in their ideas.
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