The Bookish Island's Book Review:
52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody
Are there spoilers?
A few ones may have escaped me.
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Author: Jessica Brody
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Pages: 352
Publisher: FSG
Published: 2012
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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Date Read: Nov. 28, 2017
Rating: ★★★★✩
Being America’s favorite heiress is a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.
Lexington Larrabee has never to work a day in her life. After all, she’s the heiress to the multi-billion-dollar Larrabee Media empire. And heiresses are not supposed to work. But then again, they’re not supposed to crash brand new Mercedes convertibles into convenience stores on Sunset Blvd either.
Which is why, on Lexi’s eighteen birthday, her ever-absent, tycoon father decides to take a more proactive approach to her wayward life. Every week for the next year, she will have to take on a different low-wage job if she ever wants to receive her beloved trust fund. But if there’s anything worse than working as a maid, a dishwasher, and a fast-food restaurant employee, it’s dealing with Luke, the arrogant, albeit moderately attractive, college intern her father has assigned to keep tabs on her.
In a hilarious “comedy of heiress” about family, forgiveness, good intentions, and best of all, second chances, Lexi learns that love can be unconditional, money can be immaterial, and, regardless of age, everyone needs a little saving. And although she might have 52 reasons to hate her father, she only needs one reason to love him.
The Rating:
My Review:
I've said this before, I'm so into Jessica Brody's writing. It's so easy to follow and all her characters are so well written.
Anyways... I loved this book. Well -not completely because I wish there was more action to it. In the sense that for a story about a rich heiress that has to get 52 jobs there wasn't a lot about her doing all 52 jobs in the way you'd expect. Which now that I'm thinking about it. It's better there wasn't so scratch that I like that it didn't go into too much detail about the jobs.
The romance in this was between Lexi and her fathers inter, Luke. And I totally approved of this relationship from the moment they met. Yeah, Luke was basically trying to impress Lexi's dad the whole time but he also wanted her to follow through with her side of the agreement. Do all 52 jobs and learn from it. And yes, from the start they did have a hate-to-love thing going on but it was so well done I didn't hate it myself.
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