About the Book
Twenty-four years old and
newly employed in Manhattan, Jenna McCann agrees to place herself under the
dead body of a wealthy, prominent New Yorker—her boss—to hide the identity of
his real lover. But why?
Because she is half in love with him herself; because her
only friend at Hull Industries asked her to; because she feared everyone around
her; because she had no idea how this would spin out into her own, undeveloped
life; because she had nothing and no one?
Or just because?
Deftly told and sharply observed, Jenna
Takes the Fall is the story of someone who became infamous . . .
before she became anybody at all.
My Review
I had a hard time from the beginning with this one. While I think the first chapter was meant to really pull readers in with Jenna underneath a dead body, I didn’t feel a draw. This reads more literary fiction which is not my personal favorite genre so if it is for you, this could be one you like. As I continued to read about Jenna and why she was in New York and how she developed feelings for her married boss, I wasn’t drawn into her world and before the halfway mark, I started to speed read. I did think the conversation at the end that lets readers understand why Jenna indeed took the fall and who she really took the fall for was interesting, but overall this was not a hit for me.
2 stars
