The Wake-Up Call

I wanted to love it, I've loved all of the author's previous books and based on The No Show and The Flat Share she's an auto-buy. This just sadly fell flat for me, it didn't have the twists that the No Show had, or the depth of characters from The Flat Share, or even the comic supporting characters from The Road Trip.

Izzy and Lucas work together but hate each other, which is a great premise (The Hating Game is one of my favourite books), but I think the setting killed it. They work in a struggling hotel where the employees are like family. I dislike that idea straight off, you don't fire family members and normally when an employer says “we're like family” it means they're going to take advantage. It touched on too many cliches and I struggled to warm to the characters. It's an ok book but it lacked the spark that other Beth O'Leary books have had.