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Meet Tess Drake. She’s earned everything she has. Now it’s time to get what she deserves…
Sexy super-agent Tess Drake has worked hard to make a name for herself in the glamorous yet cut-throat entertainment industry. Tess works at an international agency, where she skillfully manages some of the world's biggest egos—her company, Bardwell International operates in the thrilling, fast-paced worlds of Rights, wrongs and revenge. Tess has been an agent there for longer than she cares to remember and now she's in trouble. Real trouble. After the mysterious death of the agency's senior partner, Lowell Bardwright, Tess's sworn enemy, Cosima Tate, has taken over and would do anything to send Tess's career down in flames. And Cosima is only one of the rogue’s gallery of agents in London and New York who want Tess to take a fall.
Tess has another little complication, too. She’s sleeping with men on both sides of the Atlantic who are in bed with the women who are trying to sink her.
Can Tess jump ship without losing her clients and breaking her heart? Or will she lose everything before finding out if she really has what it takes to do what she’s always wanted?
There’s risk and reward in this wickedly funny novel that turns the world of agenting inside out and lays bare all the ambition, sex, adrenaline, bad luck, and good luck at the center of one young woman’s success.
In this disconnected debut from O'Brien (collaborative pseudonym for a media agent and a suspense novelist), driven London literary agent Tess Drake is an antihero so aggressive and egocentric that she repels friends (and perhaps readers). Steely Tess has the lonely top agent's spot at the Bartwright mega-agency, but pines for her own agency. When the head of Bartwright dies in a compromising position, the Miranda Priestly/Anna Wintour/Cruella DeVille-type who steps in is Cosima Tate, whose husband happens to be one of the men Tess is sleeping with. This spurs Tess's solo plans into action, but it's not long before her gravy train-a bestselling talking-panda children's book author-is derailed by plagiarism accusations. Tess's long shot is an underselling debut novel by 29-year-old Oliver Howard that may net a film deal with Tom Cruise (whose agent Tess has, of course, already burned). The whirlwind drama delves with vigor into reliably stimulating big-city pursuits-sex, power, scene-making, celebrity-but the sadly familiar media-world trappings and distant main character make caring about any of it a difficult proposal. (Feb.)
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jeff tierno
reviewed Agency on January 09, 2009
Agency
Well I stayed up late last night finishing the book, because I just could not set it down.
At first I had doubts about the book, and felt I could not connect with the writer and story, because there were so many London locations pointed out, that I felt lost...(never being to London myself, I could not picture what the locations, landmarks, streets, etc looked like-which made me disconnect from the book). But the more I read, the more the story took over, and the mentions of locations didn't phase me.
Tess, the lead character is so admirable. I really felt a connection with her because she believes that her job is one of the most important things in her life, and the satisfaction of her clients is top of her list. They succeed-she succeeds. She is real with her clients, and I just found myself looking up to her...making this fictional character a role-model of sorts..
I was slightly surprised at the little murder-drama theme in the middle of the book, but it worked. Some parts of the book were very predictable, but it was ok.
Overall, I loved this book. It gave me a positive feeling, and a wanting to succeed in my own life, which is rare for me when I read "chick-lit" types of books. I would definately recommend it, and am going to be passing it down to my sister to read as well!
I am really grateful for winning an advance copy of this book on here, and when I was done with the book, I just thought to myself-wow what a great book, I'm so happy I got to read this before most people! It made the whole positive vibe of the book even greater, making me feel special for being able to read and review this before most.
Merged review:
** spoiler alert ** Well I stayed up late last night finishing the book, because I just could not set it down.
At first I had doubts about the book, and felt I could not connect with the writer and story, because there were so many London locations pointed out, that I felt lost...(never being to London myself, I could not picture what the locations, landmarks, streets, etc looked like-which made me disconnect from the book). But the more I read, the more the story took over, and the mentions of location...more Well I stayed up late last night finishing the book, because I just could not set it down.
At first I had doubts about the book, and felt I could not connect with the writer and story, because there were so many London locations pointed out, that I felt lost...(never being to London myself, I could not picture what the locations, landmarks, streets, etc looked like-which made me disconnect from the book). But the more I read, the more the story took over, and the mentions of locations didn't phase me.
Tess, the lead character is so admirable. I really felt a connection with her because she believes that her job is one of the most important things in her life, and the satisfaction of her clients is top of her list. They succeed-she succeeds. She is real with her clients, and I just found myself looking up to her...making this fictional character a role-model of sorts..
I was slightly surprised at the little murder-drama theme in the middle of the book, but it worked. Some parts of the book were very predictable, but it was ok.
Overall, I loved this book. It gave me a positive feeling, and a wanting to succeed in my own life, which is rare for me when I read "chick-lit" types of books. I would definately recommend it, and am going to be passing it down to my sister to read as well!
I am really grateful for winning an advance copy of this book on here, and when I was done with the book, I just thought to myself-wow what a great book, I'm so happy I got to read this before most people! It made the whole positive vibe of the book even greater, making me feel special for being able to read and review this before most.
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