NEW RELEASE
Boss Girl - Nic Tatano (2014)
Four women, one news channel and the desire to chase the highest ratings - it's a recipe for disaster. Sydney Hack believes in being unconventional so along with her three colleagues, she outlines a plan to hire a brigade of good-looking male news anchors to sit next to the female anchors. They are looking for any man who is hot, amazing in bed and ready to share the bed with all four women, in turn. Sydney's idea works, the ratings skyrocket and now she has way too many men to play with. This novel is a lot different from the kind of books I usually read. I like to read about heroines with flaws who then live and love happily ever after but this book was like a fresh breath of air to me. Here the protagonist is a strong-minded woman with a kick-ass attitude who doesn't mind putting everything on the line and using men as a toy for her own pleasure. I did love the character but did feel a bit uncomfortable with the premise of the story. Men have been acting this way for years but it was a bit awkward to see the women stooping to the same level. My advice to you is download this book and read it with a very open mind. If I had to describe it in one word then I would say scandalous! (SS)
Hot on the heel of his success with Wing Girl, Nic Tatano has written Boss Girl, about a media executive with a testosterone-fuelled plan to boost the ratings. The summary says: "Sydney Hack is the single, thirtysomething VP of news for a failing network ... and she also has a taste for younger men. She soon realises a whole lot of over-thirty female viewers do as well, so she sets out to give these women what they want; a chiselled, trophy buck in his twenties sitting on the anchor desk next to a woman... Just. Like. Them. With nothing to lose she does the unthinkable; along with three female managers who happen to be her best friends she brings out the casting couch and turns it into a sleeper sofa. Doesn't matter that the men have no television experience. As long as they look good. And there's a hint of romance in every newscast. Ratings skyrocket as a result, but Sydney and her female cohorts discover something else along the way... True love is not always age appropriate." Boss Girl is out in February 2014.