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The Takedown
The Takedown | Lily Chu
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Love and Vanity meets Succession in a clever, funny, and romantic uplit about wealth, power, family, and love from rising star Lily Chu. 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. DEE KWAN'S SECRETS FOR A HAPPY LIFE: Always remain positive, no matter the cost Realize that every setback is a hidden opportunity Accept compliments graciously, especially when given by mega-hot rivals Never, ever question whether any of these mantras actually work
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Lily Chu juggles a lot with THE TAKEDOWN. Sometimes the balancing act plays off big time, with plot elements like toxic positivity, interfamilial racism, and corporate corruption handled with both the sensitivity they deserve and the panache fiction demands. Sometimes it slows… the pace… right… down.

The story is worth your time, but save it for when you‘re in the mood for a book with something to say & a tendency to spread out while it says it.

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I lost some momentum with my 700-page fantasy, so I decided to take a break at 50% and dive into Lily Chu‘s forthcoming book. The story‘s great so far, with tons of complicated family dynamics, toxic positivity, workplace diversity issues, and online treasure hunts. I‘m loving it on that level—but y‘all, Chu is a present tense writer and I don‘t remember her being this dependant on (or this clunky with) the past perfect in her earlier books. Blah.