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heath_mocha's review
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Gun violence and Violence
ben_t_g's review
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
4.0
First - there are not enough books set in realistic offices. I love that Housley takes the setting seriously - much of the emotional weight comes from the different paths taken by Craver and Chastain, who start out as kind of a wannabe Jim and Pam from the Office, and one becomes unmoored and the other commits to a future - without that being treated like a failure.
Housley specializes in taking a high concept and bringing it to shore, and did a good job here. I bought most of the lives (from afar) of the lottery winners and most of the losers.
Housley specializes in taking a high concept and bringing it to shore, and did a good job here. I bought most of the lives (from afar) of the lottery winners and most of the losers.
dmithen's review
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
4.75
This was excellent. I've read a number of Housley's books now, and they're often a mixture of funny, weird, and bleak. This is no different. It really captures the ennui of office life and careers in general, particularly when the career is not a calling but a compromise you make to pay the bills.
It's told in rotating perspectives of the ones in an office who didn't put into the lottery, and I was really invested in the development of the characters (things turn out well for some and tragic for others). I can't reccomend this enough.
It's told in rotating perspectives of the ones in an office who didn't put into the lottery, and I was really invested in the development of the characters (things turn out well for some and tragic for others). I can't reccomend this enough.
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