There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job is a quirky novel following a woman who have to burnout from her original job finds herself at an employement agency requesting a job with very little thinking. She moves through a series of strange and mundane jobs such as writing bus adverts for shops that disappear, writing advice on crackers and trying to convince people to stick up posters in their house.

The jobs are largely mundane, but the narrator l, the main protagonist slowly over the course of each job becomes deeply invested and often gives over a lot of her energies to the jobs. Each of the jobs she becomes involved with have oddities and unusual happenings such as strange rival poster companies trying to steal people's money, shops disappearing in line with lost adverts. It makes the novel a little unusual and adds some intrigue to the mundanity of the jobs.

The novel itself was quite quirky and I devoured the first 40% quite quickly. However, then I set it down for about 2 months and couldn't find much enthusiasm to continue. When I did pick it back up, I didn't really enjoy the ending of the novel as much and felt that it was getting too repetitive and long in style by the end.

I think ultimately for me, whilst elements of the social commentary on work culture stood out and I enjoyed some of its quirky oddities. The overall execution fell a little flat for me by the end and I'm not sure this will be the most memorable of reads. I would describe it as an okay read as I don't really have strong feelings on the book. However, I know others have absolutely loved this book so I think it very much depends on the individual reading it.

Thanks to netgalley and bloomsbury for the review copy.