1) I love the list of “particularly” statements. (Especially because they each have their own paragraphs.) The author obeys the rule of threes, and the “particularlies” build upon each other to mimic the harried feeling of a busy morning in New York City.
2) Mild spoiler: the first few pages of the novel are pages from the protagonist’s pen. I love the way how T.K. Leigh (through Molly Banks) characterizes the protagonist of the in-book book. (It’s less confusing than it sounds.) This hard-driving career woman refuses to put up with her boss’s nonsense and her voice is a great deal of fun to read.
3) The author also slips in the exposition in a graceful fashion. Look how much we learn just from small details that she just folds into the prose: the firm’s name, the kind of tile on the floor (which shows us how high-class her firm is), how long the narrator has been in the job…
