Goodbye To All That!
Posted by ~Stori.. a book review by me. 
First let me say how excited I was to receive the reply email from Margo Candela offering me the e-book version of this book to review. I’m probably silly, but I am like star-struck whenever authors interact with me. Yeah, call me a groupie. Anyway, without further delay.. here is my first ‘official’ book review on this blog!
Goodbye to All That ~ by Margo Candela
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How can you not fall in love with these characters!?
From the moment that Raquel opens the story with some behind the scenes of how to play the Hollywood game, through the ups and downs in life that we all face; I fell in love with her character. Margo does an excellent job of making you really feel that you know the people in her story. She could be my best friend, hell she could be me! Well, if I lived someplace fabulous like Hollywood that is.
Raquel is a junior marketing executive and is devoted to her work. She wants to climb the ladder to make it to the top at the media powerhouse Belmore Corporation. And she is well on her way, until things start to unravel right before her eyes. Raquel has to balance playing the office politics, showing her loyalty, and how to stay strong for her boss, Bert – the feared Bert – who, by the way suffers a very public meltdown that spins his and incidentally Raquel’s future into frenzy.
In the middle of all of her professional troubles, Raquel also has to keep her family together. Her mother and father’s marriage troubles, her brother who seems to be in over his head and stuck in a marital rut. Raquel handles it all with ease it seems, with tons of humor spun in. And just when she thinks she’s in the midst of chaos and about to give up, she meets someone at a bookstore café that suddenly has her hopeful for a way out of this horror! Oh right, don’t forget to mix in some casual sex? Casual love? Or just casual encounters that change our lives.
I love the way that Margo writes. The book really was an easy read and I didn’t want to put it down! I could relate to the characters, and found myself many times laughing out loud as I read it. There were some parts that even had tears forming in my eyes. THAT is how I know that a book is great. I have to say that the book did not end how I thought it would be. So often, these books are easy to figure out how they will end. You can see the “happy ending” coming a mile away. Goodbye to All That, managed to give me an ending that I LOVE, without me knowing how it would play out. HUGE Kudos to Margo for that!! I mean, that, in itself, is something that drives my desire to read more by this talented author!
Go pick up your copy today! Borrow it, beg for it, BUY it! – you won’t be disappointed!
Overall Rating: 5/5