ugh!!! so boring!!!!!!! this is about flop loser boring girl millie who works for a temp agency and this is about one of the assignments and occasionally it dips into the perspective of other people in the office. ig this was like an autistic coded character because the main character spends a lot of time trying to work out how to be a normal person, it's kind of a musing on performance and the idea of changing your life except you actually never do anything :/ lowkey very relatable. the problem with this book is that this is soooo boring and millie is insufferable to read about. it's not that I hate slow moving plot, you just need to have beautiful writing or really astute observations about something because otherwise you just have a plotless book with no meaning. it's not that I can't read about unlikeable main characters, god knows I've read so many😭😭 but I have to have a reason for caring about their life, maybe they're really funny or charismatic so they're fun to read about, or they're metaphorically steering the train off the tracks and you can't help but watch with rapt attention, maybe they're a terrible person by you can really understand how they got like that and it provides commentary on something. idk man be creative. however, this was just about a boring person who sometimes made kind of clever observations but other than that was super boring and there was not remarkable writing or an interesting plot. boring. 1.75 stars