Review: The Love Hack
The Love Hack by Sophie Ranald My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Love Hack instantly jumped out at me as my kind of book. As both a fan of romance novels and a bit of a geek I figured that this would be right up my street, however, the book I found myself reading had little to do with love and much less to do with hacking. The protagonist, Lucy, is a journalist for a women's magazine tech column who finds herself in a bind when her magazine decides to downsize. To save her job, she pitches an 'agony uncle' column and finds herself navigating a new office environment with a group of male colleagues. Settling into her new role Lucy grapples with an avalanche of readers' dilemmas with no idea how to deal with either them or her new co-workers. Sophie Ranald has a great writing style and this book reflects that, although there are a few quirks. Lucy appears to be written as a stereotypical 'geek'—glasses, a penchant for technology, video gaming, and somewha
