I did read Templand this past week. It is about Melanie
Evers trying to seek out jobs and can only find short term(Temp) jobs here and
there. It explains she was well educated but still is unemployed. Here is the
problem I had with this. I was depressed for her the majority of the book. She
has a loser ex-boyfriend and only meets IT Dave once on a job she quits. I did
like Dave and finally we see him return by the end of the book. I did like the
ending and how it unraveled. I just wanted more Dave and less living in hell
only eating ramen and canned meat. We did get the point her life sucked not
being able to find a job. I need more development of other characters and less
details of all the years of hell in her life.
I would give this book a 3.3. A very goal oriented woman with bad luck. Just want more characters in her day to day life.
Darra
Book Description
The heroine, Melanie Evers, is a plucky young working-class
woman from Akron, Ohio struggling to support herself in Chicago in the
post-9-11 economy. TEMPLAND follows Melanie's journey through the temporary
employment world from a college student on "just a summer job" to a
28-year-old woman with a lot of intelligence (and a heap of student loan debt
to match) through multiple layoffs and a series of ever-more-wacky temp
assignments, as she struggles not only to survive, but also to find romance and
always remain true to the honest, working-class values instilled in her by her beloved
grandfather. In her long, solitary journey through Templand, Melanie encounters
adventure and romance on her search for that always-elusive Permanent
Job---which she finally gets, along with her man.
TEMPLAND is a highly entertaining, wickedly funny social
satire, contemporary romance, and
mystery novel all rolled into one.
About the Author: JILL ELAINE HUGHES is a professional
playwright, novelist, journalist and freelance writer with more than 15 years'
experience in publishing and professional writing/editing. She has contributed to many newspapers and national
magazines, including the Washington Post, theChicago Tribune, Yahoo! Shine, the
Chicago Reader, the New Art Examiner, Cat Fancy magazine, and many others. Her plays have received productions
nationwide and internationally, are widely published, and have been
anthologized alongside Pulitzer and Tony winners. She is also a published novelist under the
pen names "Jamaica Layne" and "Jay Hughes", and recently
began self-publishing New Adult fiction under her own name.
Website: http://www.jillelainehughes.com/
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