Review: The tech guy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
Can't get enough of the office life?  This book will be just like taking it home with you. However when there's a handsome new techie hire, maybe that's a good thing.  Emma works for a magazine and the computer system she uses has more bugs than a Louisiana swamp.  Guy arrives to keep everything from crashing, and he's a water polo player along with his skills at creating server backups and updating software.With a colleague who drools over men and her suspicions that co-workers pass information to rival magazines, Emma also has a personal life based on obligation and habit.  Down time doesn't exist in magazine publishing; no sooner is one issue out the door than the next has to be compiled. She's tired, three years after a Vegas wedding.  Next up, she and Guy are sent to a conference in Vegas, where lectures and workshops are a lot of work, and Emma deserves some relaxation.Characters include a girl who's badly treated by her boyfriend and then gets a proposal from him, to Emma's Pop and neighbours. I would have liked more details about producing the magazine, and more computer technical challenges, than the constant gossip.  But with family meals, sports days, a formal evening, there are changes of scene to keep the story moving.  And when Emmie asks her friend who's got engaged, "Do you really think he's the best you can get?" and the other girl is undecided, we see reality for many middle-range office workers.  Emmie has a secret, which is not helping her life. Confronting her friend helps her, and then she has to start turning matters around. THE TECH GUY deepens when people start facing up to their problems instead of just doing what's safe.