Must think happy thoughts. Julie Andrews dancing. Cadbury's chocolate Easter eggs. But no amount of positive thinking changes the fact that Jeremy-—the man of my dreams, the man I would marry, the man who should spend his whole life worshipping me and lavishing me with kisses-—went to Thailand to find himself.
Obviously I''m not as cute and witty as I thought I was, since while I''ve been sitting around every weekend, he's been sleeping with half of Thailand. And then he found Someone Else. That someone not being me.
I have been pathetic.
But now I will date. I will become the queen of dating. I will forget all about him.
Single in Boston, that's me. But not for long…
I have wanted to read this book for just about forever, and decided to just buy it already! It wasn't a huge disappointment, but let's just say I wouldn't be lacking some earth shattering awesomeness if I had put off buying it for another little while.
It was very light and is definitely chick-lit. Very girly with pretty equal parts friendship, family, and romance. One thing I did really enjoy was the humour of the author, and I think that must be why her books are still on my list. This just wasn't one of my favs. I found the intro to kind of last forever and was pretty disappointed in the ending. I just found myself not satisfied, but still worth reading.
Spoiler Alert: Don't read past this point if you don't want to know specific book details!
So the book starts out with what I would call a pretty lengthy introduction. Like I get that the inciting incident happens to be that this pretty cheesily pathetic guy, Jeremy (who we know all too quickly is not a winner), breaks Jackie's heart, which is kind of just sad for me, because he is totally skeevy, and really does not deserve all the attention. So right off the bat I was kinda annoyed with our female protagonist. I was however happily distracted with the uncanny similarities to my life, which are described quite humorously. I know this is not especially for me, but it definitely got my attention.
This launches Jackie (and eventually her much more likable roommate) into the club scene, and a few pretty terrible dates, which Jackie definitely does not foresee. I actually found it kinda endearing how naive she was. And the dates were a pretty humorous addition, although I could tell that Andrew was her perfect match all along. If only she would have been stronger and realized it, as well as staying away from her skeeze-bag ex-douche-ball. But probably the biggest let down was the ending. These light, fluffy books do not usually disappoint me! That's usually one thing I can count on: a happy ending that wraps up like a perfect little amouse-bouche. But not this time folks. We had to have ambiguously disappointing instead. Boo!
Not much else really happens. At least not that I can remember, which seems pretty bad ... but it's just the truth. Definitely not something for a reader who is looking any deeper than a $2 scratch lotto ticket...
This launches Jackie (and eventually her much more likable roommate) into the club scene, and a few pretty terrible dates, which Jackie definitely does not foresee. I actually found it kinda endearing how naive she was. And the dates were a pretty humorous addition, although I could tell that Andrew was her perfect match all along. If only she would have been stronger and realized it, as well as staying away from her skeeze-bag ex-douche-ball. But probably the biggest let down was the ending. These light, fluffy books do not usually disappoint me! That's usually one thing I can count on: a happy ending that wraps up like a perfect little amouse-bouche. But not this time folks. We had to have ambiguously disappointing instead. Boo!
Not much else really happens. At least not that I can remember, which seems pretty bad ... but it's just the truth. Definitely not something for a reader who is looking any deeper than a $2 scratch lotto ticket...
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