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The Cleaner by Brandi Wells

The Cleaner

A Novel

by Brandi Wells

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  • Jan 2024, 304 pages
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Molly A. (Pryor, OK)

Negative On The Cleaner
I'd give this book negative stars if I could.

To summarize, The Cleaner is about a janitor who takes it upon herself to snoop in other people's things in the building where she works. She plays matchmaker, crochet enthusiast, morality judge, corporate embezzlement investigator, and mother hen. For some employees she leaves little tidbits to encourage their professional growth, relationships or hobbies; for others, she sabotages their employment or their marriages. She is sociopathically meddlesome, narcississtic, and benevolent, all at the same time.

Not only was the writing dull and monotone, but the charactersmore
Ruth O.

A Very Unsatisfying Book
‘The Cleaner’ is written in first person by an unnamed person who cleans office spaces at night. No one is named in the book except for an initial or a made-up name such ‘The Intern’ or ‘Yarn Guy’. She (I THINK the writer is a ‘she’) feels she is intimately involved in the lives of the office workers because she goes through their desk drawers and uses their computers. She also takes things from their desks and sometimes leaves things or gives them to others. This deeply offended me on many levels, especially because I dealt with this situation many years ago. I reported what I suspected—that the cleaning personmore

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