Synopsis:
She’s cold, narcissistic, conceited and she has no redeeming qualities.
She doesn’t care, she’s gifted.
She doesn’t care, she’s the seduction expert.
Women contact her to take over their love lives. She steps in when they’re lost, she’s supposed to succeed where they failed. She handles their single status, their relationships, their breakups, and very often their partners’ affairs. Her job is a life priority, she spends most of her time at the office or between two flights in business class and the fact of having a sports car that can reach one hundred kilometers in less than six seconds often make her feel like a superheroine in service to women.
Anyway, take her card.
You’ll see, it’s much better than spending holidays in St Barts.
Review:
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
I can’t remember ever reading a book whose main character is in the same time, the villain of the story. I know they do exist, but I just haven’t had the chance to read one yet. However, I’ve always been curious to find out what’s going on in the minds of the people who we generally call mean, shallow or bad, to see how they can be so much different from most of us and what motivates them to stay behind their controversial actions.
So when I started this book, it was a whole new perspective for me. Obviously, I did not agree or like any of the character’s moves. But I felt amused and entertained to observe her, to discover how anyone could find satisfaction in things that should be the last ones to motivate you. Instead of looking for true happiness, for love, goodness and peace of mind, there are people who live just for power, reputation and the image they have in the eyes of the beholder. Perhaps this would not be a problem as long as you’re keeping it on a decent level. But for B, or “the Baroness”, how she prefers to be called, these things leave no space for anything else inside her and she becomes just a painted portrait of the person she should have been. And damn, this girl loves her power. Blinded by her love for money, image, luxury and the devotion of her clients, she turns out unconscious of all human qualities. Yes, she’s good at her work, she manages to offer her customers even more than they were even promised with (although the means of doing that are…debatable, to say, at least) but on her way of becoming that famous seduction expert, she loses all her empathy, all her kindness and her humanity. Her whole life is a theatrical performance, all the details are carefully staged, all her lines previously rehearsed in order to manipulate everyone around her, from her employees to her clients, to her friends and future husband.
Of course, this kind of lifestyle will always be at stake, because no matter how much planning you’d do, there’s always something that might go wrong, there’s always someone who might react different to what you were expecting. With all her cautious groundwork, her whole career, love story and future are at the risk of collapse the moment she meets an even more spiteful character whose plans seem to be in conflict with her own. And here is where the book gets an interesting effect over the readers. No matter how much you despise B, the moment when an even more poisonous snake enters the stage, you automatically team up with the Baroness and hope she’ll be the one to win this war.
Before I finish, I just need to mention that according to GoodReads, the book seems to be part of a series and not a stand alone, although there’s no information regarding the next books for now. I came to realize this when I reached the last chapter and instead of an ending, I discovered that the novel stops at a critical point, which definitely needs a follow-up.
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