Mallory Goes to Therapy
Chasing a Cure in His Own Way
by Thomas Keech
Narrated by John Hampden
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Pub Date 15 Apr 2023 | Archive Date 24 Jul 2023
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Description
Kevin Mallory is a Customer Assistance Representative for a cable company. He keeps his customers on hold, his supervisor on the run and his female nemesis on ice, but a new friend just might change his perspective.
Lilly decides, based on his boorish advances, that he is in need of sexual addiction therapy. She wants to help him because he has led her to believe, falsely, that he has saved her brother's job. He goes in the wrong door in the church basement and joins the Healing Hearts Therapy Group by mistake.
Lilly has supported herself since high school with just a little help from her only living relative, her alcoholic older brother. She runs a small non-profit housing agency while McFadden, her supervisor and director of the agency, travels around the country on work -- and also on play.
Zach, her charming, gregarious, self-satisfied boyfriend, outrages her by sharing their private conversations with all their friends and egging them on to put pressure on her to marry him. She meets Selby, a humble policeman, through Mallory, and is immediately attracted to him. They meet at first at the shooting range, where she admires his kindness and he admires her game spirit.
When Lilly finds out McFadden has been embezzling funds, Zack implores her not to report it. Their love life begins to suffer from their disagreement, as well as from her growing attraction to Selby. She takes Selby's advice and tells her boss she must report him, endangering not only her relationship but also her career.
In an attempt to save Lilly's job, Mallory reverts to his old habit of impersonating an attorney in order to blackmail McFadden.
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
Praise for the Kevin Mallory series:
“Love or hate Kevin (and the reader may find themselves doing both at the same time) this quest for maturity becomes oddly endearing.”
– Kirkus Reviews
Mallory “does manage to redeem himself” in this “intriguing critique of manly-man thinking.”
- Kirkus Reviews
Available Editions
EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
ISBN | 9798985667097 |
PRICE | US$3.99 (USD) |
DURATION | 9 Hours, 42 Minutes, 20 Seconds |
Links
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Featured Reviews
Having requested this from Netgalley I then read the only review with horror. When I started listening, my dismay got worse. But that didn't last long. In fact I'm sorry to say that I wish I'd read the first book in the series first then this one would have made a lot more sense.
Kevin Mallory appears to be a misogynistic, racist, delusional nutcase. However it doesn't take long to realise that he simply has no understanding of the world. His father, who ignored him, has died and his mother, who he no longer speaks to, had an extremely skewed view of relationships. Mallory is overweight, has a dead end job and seems to believe ever conspiracy theory website is telling the truth. However he sees himself as a lady killer, successful, powerful and supremely intelligent.
This book (once you get over the shock of Mallory's crazy ideas - which, I hasten to add are not that much different to those spouted by a recent US President) is funny, sad, very well written and, perhaps, a cautionary tale.
Mallory does seem to improve, thanks to his friends, over the course of the book but there's still some exceptionally cringeworthy parts that have you rolling your eyes even in the last few chapters. The narration by John Hampden is excellent. I'd certainly like to read the previous book since the references to it in this book hint at even more insane occurrences in Mallory's life. I'd definitely read more.