A very readable book about the woes of working in the financial industry. An Ivy League overachiever, Allegra, goes to work for one of the prestigious financial firms. Her weeks are long, social life poor and dreams large. Her fantasy is to spend her entire life devoted to teaching YOGA. She plans on opening a yoga studio, where she can teach, as soon as she receives her large year end bonus.

Allegra falls under the spell of a well known yoga blogger, Skylar. It turns out that Skylar isn't what Allegra expected.. I think that as readers, we are not shocked by their relationship.
This novel deals with the inside world of all the young people who we see making huge sums of money, and their cutthroat competitive existence.

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Breathe in Cash Out, was hilarious. The opening chapter signaled there’s a new voice on the book scene and a voice I very much wanted to listen to.

The writing style is clever, fun and fresh. The characters are written to pitch perfect perfection. I wasn’t simply reading the book, I felt as if I was sitting in the office with these characters, watching their antics and enjoying their banter.

The author manages to capture what it’s like to work in a world where you have no life, and are on constant call – and make it funny.

The main character, Allegra Cobb, is both relatable and fallible. I rooted for her, and I groaned with her when life got really tough.

This author’s voice is unique and it kept me turning the pages. I’m looking forward to reading more from Madeleine Henry.

Thanks to NetGalley and Atria for the Advanced Readers Copy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201818-breathe-in-cash-out?from_search=true

This book is described as a mystery/thriller, but it takes forever for any real mystery to get underway. It reads like women’s fiction until halfway through the book.

Erin is adrift since her husband died five months ago. She sees her daughter, Shorie, off to college, but then seems to drive drunk and behave erratically, so her family ships her off to a remote island to rest and regroup—she’s been either working constantly or sleeping, and her family and friends claim they are concerned. Shorie doesn’t want to go to school; she wants to keep working at the company her parents founded. Once Shorie is at school and Erin is on the island, strange things happen.

The thing about suspense novels is that you usually feel anxious about the characters’ well being almost right away. A little backstory, and then you should be thinking, uh-oh, how is she going to prevail from this dilemma? In Until the Day I Die, you don’t feel that until the halfway point, so it’s an OK novel, but it’s not nearly as well done as the other books by Emily Carpenter that I’ve read.

Thanks so much to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book

Thank you to Netgalley and Atria books for a preview of this debut novel by and up and coming author. Allegra has a boring job in finance that’s sucking the life out of her. She works endless hours and rarely has a day off, and if she does, she still has to be available in case a work emergency comes up. And there are many of those.

Allegra works in a pod with three others, two females and Tripp, her favorite co-worker. They work on many projects together.

Allegra is treading water at this horrible job until she gets her yearly bonus, which she’s expecting to be very substantial. Then she will quit and pursue a career teaching yoga. Along the way to her dream goal, she meets Skylar who appears to be everything Allegra wants, an established yoga instructor with a huge Instagram following.

This story had a fresh new plot and I believe the author has a promising future. It started a bit slow, but once I got into it, the challenges that interrupted Allegra’s future were intriguing. I would definitely read another book by Henry.