Firebrand
The Corporate Elements Mysteries, Book 1
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Firebrand
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Narrated by:
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Megan Preston Meyer
About this listen
Currant Keppler has a fresh MBA and her first corporate job: participating in the LATTE Management Rotation Program at Alpine Chalet Coffee Company, the Midwest's second-largest coffee chain. She's fluent in jargon, excited for new challenges, and completely bought in—until she realizes that there's something fishy with her first project.
"I'm in the big leagues now", she tells herself. "This is just how the game is played".
But when a question of ethics turns into a question of murder, she learns that some people will do anything to succeed–and that no one is their authentic self at work.
Combining corporate culture, the start-up scene, cabin life, and punny coffee drinks, Firebrand takes a campy, loving look at impostor syndrome, authenticity, and the absurdities of the corporate world.
©2023 Megan Preston Meyer (P)2023 Megan Preston MeyerThe main character, Currant, was at least more moral and principled than many of the others, but you could see that even she was caught up in the corporate game, insecure and keen to prove herself in a new job. I liked how that meant as a reader you could see her flaws and understand her decisions to trust untrustworthy people, even if she herself was not totally aware of them.
Interestingly the mystery itself wasn’t the main pull of the narrative for me, because I was more intrigued by being immersed in a corporate atmosphere of the kind I have little personal experience with, though it did provide unusual moral conundrums that tested the characters. The ending brought some nice surprises. At the very end I did wonder if there was a subtle hint I might be missing indicating all might not have quite been as it seemed, but I think that might have just been my own insecurity, since I’m generally not very good at figuring things out in mysteries!
The narration of the audiobook was great – smooth, clear, and well suited the story.
Explores the falsities of the corporate world
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