The Takedown
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- Expected May 7, 2024
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- $9.99
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- Pre-Order
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
DEE KWAN’S FIVE EASY STEPS TO WIN THE DAY AND GET THE GUY:
STEP ONE: Meet Mr. Perfect. Flirt. Daydream. Hope. STEP TWO: Discover he’s secretly the son of your uber-problematic new fashion industry boss. STEP THREE: Realize your uber-problematic new boss is seriously, actually a problem. STEP FOUR: Team up with Mr. Perfect in a dizzying corporate coup like something out of a glamorous Old Hollywood movie. (Costume changes! Impulsive Parisian jaunts! Mr. Perfect being, well, perfect!) STEP FIVE: Win at everything and take over the whole dang world.
"Hilarious and relatable." —TALIA HIBBERT, USA Today bestselling author for The Stand-In
For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive "nemesis" who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can't, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.)
Soon Dee is forced to share her adorably cozy home with her parents and prickly estranged grandmother. Then she's tossed into the deep end, tasked with cleaning up a scandal for intimidatingly chic luxury fashion firm Celeste. If that weren't enough, she discovers her hot-nemesis works there, too…and Teddy is nothing like the man she thought she knew.
Before she can cry foul, Teddy comes clean about his double life: he's the heir to the CEO and he needs her help to make Celeste a better place―for everyone. But that means taking down the old guard―including his father―intent on standing in their way. Now in the center of a dizzying corporate coup, Dee is forced to decide whether she's ready to stop watching the world through rose-colored glasses and instead face the truth: about herself, about her feelings for Teddy, and about what she's willing to do to truly make a difference.
MORE BOOKS BY LILY CHU:
The Stand-In
The Comeback
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A diversity consultant turns sleuth to expose a corrupt CEO in the lighthearted latest from Chu (The Comeback). Perpetually positive Daiyu "Dee" Kwan is happiest partaking in an online role-playing game with her internet bestie/fiercest competitor, Teddy9. When they finally meet in person, she gets along famously with her unexpectedly dreamy counterpart, bonding partly over their mutual mixed-race heritage. Then she discovers that artsy Teddy is also the son of the CEO at her corporate job, where she's constantly fighting an uphill battle to improve workplace conditions. Teddy, too, is frustrated with his father's immoral business practices, and he and Dee team up to take the man down. Dee is an endearing protagonist and her easy interactions with Teddy reveal their organic connection, the highlight of the novel. Though not fully developed or smoothly woven into the narrative, a subplot involving Dee's parents and racist white grandmother descending on her home effectively shows her learning to speak up and set boundaries. The weakest link here is the office-related exposition, delivered through extended, unsubtle dialogue, which detracts from Dee and Teddy's righteous mission. Still, readers looking for diverse rom-coms with charismatic leads ought to to check this out.
