Hotel 21

By: Senta Rich

Narrated by: Jessie Cave

A sharp and warm-hearted debut novel with an unforgettable protagonist you can’t help but root for.

Noelle is an efficient, friendly hotel cleaner—a model employee. Or so she’d have you think . . . trouble is, she can’t help but take little “souvenirs” from the rooms she cleans. Nothing of value—a lipstick, a hair clip, some tweezers. By the time the guest has noticed, she’s long gone. As Noelle begins work at her twenty-first hotel, she’s determined to last longer than her record of one month in the job. But then she meets her new colleagues. These women are real: they live lives full of happiness and worry, pain and joy. They make her wonder what it might be like to have true friends, people to stick round for—and someone to love. . . . Will they give her the courage to claim the life she deserves, or will her old habits come back to haunt her?

Hard to Stay on Track

I want to like this book, I’ve went back several times to listen to the chapters because I keep falling asleep. Sometimes it is hard to understand the narrator.

Same story over and over.

I made it more than halfway in and there still was no significant hook. It's just the same story about her stealing different things in different places. Do not bother.