Book Synopsis:
Noelle is an efficient and friendly hotel cleaner, a model employee. Or so she’d have you think. The trouble is that she can’t help taking little ‘souvenirs’ as she cleans. Nothing of value, just tokens of happy, normal lives: a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. And by the time the guest has noticed, she’s long gone.
As she starts at her 21st hotel, she’s determined to beat her record of one month in a five star hotel before suspicion falls on her. But when she meets her new colleagues, her plans are complicated. These women aren’t just hands pushing carts down lonely hotel corridors: they are women with lives full of happiness and worry, pain and joy. The kind of lives Noelle has never known how to live. They make her wonder what it might be like to have real friends, people to stick around for.
Will the women at Hotel 21 give her the courage to claim the life she deserves, or will her old habits come back to haunt her?
My Review:
Hotel 21 is a heart warming story that manages to be both funny and heart breaking at the same time.
The story is told from the point of view of Noelle, a hotel cleaner who has just started working at her 21st hotel as she has to keep moving hotels due to he’d habit of collecting ‘souvenirs’ from hotel guests. Throughout the book we learn more about Noelle and her past including the sad impact it’s had on her life. Some of the events in her past are very sad and really made me feel sorry for Noelle. I wished I could give her a hug I felt she really needed.
The other cleaners at the hotel are a lovely bunch that I enjoyed getting to know over the course of the book. I really liked how the author manages to make them all so individual with their own back stories which helped the reader get to know them better. It was really lovely to see how they all were so close and how they helped each other.
This book does start off a bit slow as the author sets in scene but soon gets going to become very addictive. I enjoyed watching Noelle work through her problems with her friends help and how she comes to terms with her painful past. This is the author’s debut novel and I look forward to reading more from her in the future.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the publisher for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Senta Rich began her career as an advertising copywriter. During this time, she also wrote radio plays and magazine articles, before moving into the world of screenwriting. She now writes regularly for film and TV. Rich lives in Dublin with her husband and son.
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