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Review: The Garden Intrigue by Lauren Willig

17 Feb

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

I love this series, and this book is an example of what Lauren Willig always does so well.

Summary via Lauren Willig’s website:

As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, English operative Augustus Whittlesby gets wind of a top secret device, to be demonstrated over the course of a house party at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is to join forces with that annoying American socialite, Emma Morris Delagardie, who has been commissioned to write a masque for the weekend’s entertainment. Even so, it should leave plenty of alone time with Augustus’ colleague (and goddess), Jane Wooliston, who has been tapped to play the heroine. Or so Augustus tells himself. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing seems to go quite as scripted… especially Emma.

What the cover blurb (and description above) miss is the framing contemporary story line, which continues through the series. American graduate student Eloise is living in England researching spies in Napoleon’s time. She discovers that this is harder than she expects, gets tied up in some intrigue of her own, and along the way, finds her own romance, one that doesn’t wrap up quite as tidily as those in the spy stories she’s encountering in her research.

I admit that as of the last installment, I thought the contemporary storyline was getting pushed further and further into the shadow of the historical. As the historical stories were becoming even stronger, I didn’t exactly mind, but I was happy to see it back with some real oomph here. It had real relationship questions mixed in with an absolutely goofy movie set plot, and I found it delightful.  It’s a bit more chck-lit than romance, and Eloise is far from perfect, and all in all, it worked for me.

I didn’t like the historical story quite as well as the last few, but that’s a high standard to hold. Certainly, it still stands up well to the genre as a whole.

As is typical for a Lauren Willig heroine, Emma is not your run of the mill society miss, and isn’t afraid to stand out in society. Her links to the Bonaparte family put her in an situation of interest to the network of spies these books center around, but her flirty personality and interest in her late husband’s mechanical endeavors make her interesting to read about.

I wasn’t enamored with her love interest, but he didn’t pose a problem for me either. Between the fun and frivolity of the masque the two teamed up to put on, the excitement of the spy story, and the interesting historical details, I was well entertained.

I always appreciate Lauren Willig’s notes from her historical research– the most unlikely seeming characters and events turn out to be those pulled from the past.

The big question when reviewing book 9 of a series is whether this one is a good place to start reading. This book would be fine as a standalone, but the series is worth starting at the beginning, and watching the plot build and the characters come and go.

I read this book as part of a TLC Book Tour. Thank you to TLC and Dutton Adult books for providing my copy of the book and the chance to participate. For more thoughts on Garden Intrigue, check out the other tour stops:

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Posted by on February 17, 2012 in books, reviews, tour

 

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Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth

14 Feb

With Book Club Notes
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Summary via Veronica Roth’s website:

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she’s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she’s kept hidden from everyone because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves… or it might destroy her.

First and foremost, Divergent tells a darn good story! While reading it, I wasn’t worrying about potential weaknesses, I just wanted to keep going to see what happened next.

Divergent features a future society with a very rigorous structure. It’s an intriguing world, one that kept me thinking long after finishing the book.  I wanted to know how it came about, how it functioned, and where the books are going to take it.  That’s enough to set the book apart from the crowd, but not enough in and of itself to make the book compelling.

Luckily, the characters are enough.  Beatrice was a convincing as a teen needing to move from childhood to adulthood, a transition marked with a choice which cannot be undone. Beatrice chooses to break from her family to join another faction, one that demands courage above all else.

Relationships are key in Divergent, existing relationships and relationships that are formed in her new life. The characters (friends and otherwise) are an interesting bunch, each with their own approach, whether it be in Abnegation (her old faction) or Dauntless (her new one).

Watching her meet and evaluate the other teens looking to join this faction is full of information on Beatrice, the other newcomers, and what it means to be Dauntless.  Seeing Beatrice’s perception of her parents and their choices change as she learns more was a great way to watch Beatrice mature.

And then, there is the love interest.  He’s a worthy character, and the this aspect of the book is balanced well with everything else that is happening.

Midway into Divergent, Beatrice’s story becomes part of a much larger one, where her decisions will affect more than her own life.  The action picked up significantly at this point.  I’ll be interested to see where this goes in the next book,

I have two small caveats to my enjoyment of this book, things that I hesitate to label as flaws, at least at this time.

First, Divergent is unabashedly a YA book, written for that audience. Although it clearly made sense for the main character to be a teen, I’m not sure that’s true for some of the supporting characters, particularly those in leadership roles. More than that, as a not-so-young adult, I would have liked to see life from a different perspective, to see what it looked like from a more adult point of view. There were many aspects of the society, particularly of the logistics, that were invisible to the teen characters, where I would have liked to know more.

Related to that, there were clearly some holes in the world-building. As I said, the world is a highly intriguing one, and I’m not even sure I should mention this in a negative way. The gaps didn’t bother me at all while I was reading. It was only once I was done, and thinking over the book, that I started wondering more about why the society was structured the way it was. I actually came up with some very intriguing possibilities. If the author takes some of the clues she left and builds on them in future books, I’ll be more than satisfied with this aspect of the story.

Book Club Notes

I read Divergent for discussion with one of my book clubs, and I think it was a successful choice.  The club has a balance of people that read YA but not science fiction, those that read science fiction but not a lot of YA, those that don’t usually read either, and those of us that read from both of those genres, including where they overlap.

Everyone enjoyed the book.  Those with a background that includes more adult science fiction were bothered by the holes in the world-building, where it wasn’t an issue for others in the group.  I shared some of my speculation on why the holes may be deliberate, what I thought might be lurking behind them, but I’m not sure they were convinced.

We spent a good chunk of time on the factions– are they a complete set?  Are they sustainable?  Are the believable at all?  What were they like at the beginning, and how had they changed?  Which faction would you fall into?  Which would you like to be part of?

We also talked about violence in this book, and in YA fiction in general.  Added to some character chat, discussion of the author, and then of some material one club member found about how society is increasingly sorting itself, so that we only associate with those that are like us, and we had a very good discussion.

 
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Posted by on February 14, 2012 in Book Club, books, L, reviews

 

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Review: Defending Jacob by William Landay

03 Feb

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow.

This book works as a mystery, as a courtroom thriller, and as a family drama.

Summary via goodreads.com:

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.The writing was absolutely perfect to draw me in and deliver the story.

This story would have worked well simply as a mystery– a father trying to prove his son innocent of murdering another boy.

The courtroom aspects were a great added element. It was clear that William Landay understands how the system works, and he wove that into the book, adding an extra layer to the story.

What pushed this book to amazing, that will make a great read for a wide audience, is the family drama. What happens to a family with a child accused of doing something terrible– particularly when one parent believes it is possible, when long-buried secrets are unearthed, when every piece of the past is called into question. Andy Barber is absolutely convincing as a father prepared to stand behind his son, no matter what.

I’ve been debating how much more to say, but I think the rest is best discovered by reading. I’d recommend picking this one up and finding out for yourself.

I picked up this book for review at NCIBA.  Thank you to the publisher for providing it and to NCIBA for inviting us to attend.

 
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Posted by on February 3, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Review: The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

24 Jan

My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Summary via Goodreads:

“The body you are wearing used to be mine.” So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her.

She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own.

In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.

My Top 10 Reasons for Liking The Rook:

10) It’s a good thriller, with secret agents, characters with questionable loyalties, and multiple action sequences. Myfanwy (she explains that it rhymes with Tiffany) can really kick butt!

9) The world building was very complete, and although the basic concept isn’t at all new (people among us with special powers, and a secret branch of government to deal with the problems among them), I did feel like this was a new approach.

8) Crazy cool bad guys. Having special powers helps make more than run of the mill evildoers.

7) The setup (Myfanwy waking up unaware of who she is, and making sense of the life her body had been living) was quite clever, and I felt it pulled together through the book.

6) The method of communicating Myfanwy’s back story worked well for the characters in the book and me as a reader.

5) I loved Myfanwy and I love the person that wakes up in Myfanwy’s body, trying to figure out who she is and what happened to her. And when you have someone that starts out as a blank slate, character growth is practically guaranteed!

4) The supporting characters were a great part of the book. Myfanwy’s assistant Ingrid was so unflappable, and reminded me of someone that I used to work with. The other members of the Checquy, their American counterparts, the people Myfanwy meets outside of work… they all contribute to the book.

3) Humor that made me laugh out loud because it popped up in the most unexpected places.

2) All the pieces came together into a darn good story.

1) Superheroes, acting like adults! Complete with politics, personalities, job conflicts, and (don’t forget) butt kicking! What’s not to like?

I really enjoyed reading this book, and hope there are more to come.

Thank you to Little, Brown for sending me this book for review.

 
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Posted by on January 24, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Review: Dreaming of Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly

20 Jan

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

This was a cute piece of Jane Austen related fluff. I went into it looking for nothing more than that, and at first, I thought I wouldn’t be disappointed. And perhaps I shouldn’t have been disappointed in the last half, either.

Summary via Goodreads:

Fledgling illustrator and Darcy fanatic Kay Ashton settles in the seaside town of Lyme to finish her book, The Illustrated Mr. Darcy, when a film company arrives to make a new adaptation of Persuasion. Kay is soon falling for the handsome bad boy actor playing Captain Wentworth, but it’s the quiet screenwriter Adam Craig who has more in common with her beloved Mr. Darcy. Though still healing from a broken heart, Adam finds himself unexpectedly in love with Kay, but it will take more than good intentions to convince her that her real happy ending is with him.

Certainly, the Jane Austen references were lots of fun. Since the book revolved around the production of a movie version of Persuasion, those are the ones that I was expecting, but many more elements were borrowed from Emma, which I am immensely more fond of. These aspects are responsible for lifting the book from 3 to 3.5 stars, and were enough to leave me happy that I read the book.

I’m satisfied with the plot, which primarily needed to frame the Jane Austen references and the characters themselves.

My problems with Dreaming of Mr. Darcy are all in the characters, which are really what I read books like this for.

All of the characters were somewhat flatter than I’d like– not enough to be fatal to the book, but not well rounded enough for me to care what Gemma decides to do about her movie career, or to be surprised by the twist near the end (which I did see coming, there was no other reason for some of the material setting it up to be there).

But really, I just didn’t like Kay. Granted, many of her flaws were patterned after Emma, but Emma had a little more texture to her, and just never felt quite so clueless to me.

Kay is star struck, and when she meets the actor playing the object of her dreams, the fantasies fly. That’s not a problem, although the direction her fantasies went didn’t resonate with me. It’s where she goes with them that doesn’t work for me. If she’d pursued them with a real sense of laughing at herself while doing so, I could have loved her for it. But as it was (and I don’t want to give too much away)she just wasn’t my kind of heroine.

Beyond that, I never felt the chemistry between Adam and Kay. I liked him well enough, but just didn’t feel what he was feeling for her,in spite of being told it was happening.

I can see this book working much better for someone else, someone that values following your dreams, wherever they take you.

I received this book for review from the publisher.  Thank you, Sourcebooks!

 
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Posted by on January 20, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Review: Wish Upon A Star by Sarah Morgan

14 Jan

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

The two novellas were both fast fun reads.

Summary via goodreads:

Love is in the air this Christmas!

Christy was hoping to skip Christmas this year. Her kids have other ideas – they’ve put their dad’s name at number one on their Christmas list. So it looks as if Christy will be hightailing it up to the Lake District to play happy families with her ex!

Snow-capped mountains and roaring log fires – Alessandro’s home is like walking into a Christmas card. Is it really safe for her to spend Christmas with her dreamy, funny – no! – entirely infuriating ex-hubby?

Miranda has completely the opposite problem. Being single and pregnant at Christmas was certainly not her wish come true. She doesn’t believe in miracles, but then resident hunk Jake sweeps her off her snow-covered shoes. Come Boxing Day dare she dream that Mr Sex-on-Legs might be for more than just Christmas?

The first was a romance within an on-the-rocks relationship, and (taken as fluff) it was very entertaining. A highly volatile couple, a precocious kid, and a heavy dose of wish fulfillment to top it off.

I admit, I was more interested in the characters in the second story. Jake was introduced in the first story, and this good looking guy (who is very in tune with women and what they want) is my kind of romance hero. I liked the wounded (but recovering) Miranda as well, and I enjoyed getting to know them as they got to know each other.

Both of these stories were perfect as novellas, which gave just enough time to get to know the characters and the situations, then have them resolve without unnecessarily complex obstacles. Whether in front of a winter fire or as an escape from a hot summer day, these winter stories are an enjoyable getaway.

I read this book as an electronic review copy via NetGalley.  Thank you to the publisher for allowing me access.

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Review: Gun Games by Faye Kellerman

12 Jan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Summary via goodreads.com:

LAPD lieutenant detective Decker and his wife, Rina, have willingly welcomed fifteen-year-old Gabriel Whitman, the son of a troubled former friend, into their home. While the enigmatic teen seems to be adapting easily, Decker knows only too well the secrets adolescents keep—witnessed by the tragic suicide of another teen, Gregory Hesse, a student at Bell and Wakefield, one of the city’s most exclusive prep schools.

Gregory’s mother, Wendy, refuses to believe her son shot himself and convinces Decker to look deeper. What he finds disturbs him. The gun used in the tragedy was stolen—evidence that propels him to launch a full investigation with his trusted team, Sergeant Marge Dunn and Detective Scott Oliver. But the case becomes darkly complicated by the suicide of another Bell and Wakefield student—a death that leads them to uncover an especially nasty group of rich and privileged students with a predilection for guns and violence. Decker thought he understood kids, yet the closer he and his team get to the truth, the clearer it becomes that he knows very little about them, including his own charge, Gabe. The son of a gangster and an absent parent, the boy has had a life filled with too much free time, too many unexplained absences, and too little adult supervision.

Before it’s over, the case and all its terrifying ramifications will take Decker and his detectives down a dark alley of twisted allegiances and unholy alliances, culminating at a heart-stopping point of no return

I’ve been a fan of this series for many, many years. As sometimes happens with long-running series, I’ve lost track of it a bit. When I started reading this book, I was surprised at all that has happened since I last visited Peter Decker, Rina Lazarus and family. I checked and saw that I’ve missed two books, which I need to go back and fill in.

I’m impressed at how Faye Kellerman keeps shifting the focus of the series to keep it fresh,while still remaining true to the characters. There’s only so much character growth any one or two characters can reasonably have! Over the course of 20 books, the focus has gone from religious, professional, personal, and family. She’s looked at other family members (most memorably, Decker’s daughter, who is also a police officer). Here, the focus is on a foster child, one that came to live with the family in one of the books that I missed.

I really liked Gabriel, who was simultaneously very, very young (when it comes to his love life) and much, much older (when it comes to his music, and to knowledge of the seamy side of the world.) He’s Romeo to a very naive Juliet. He manages to stumble into a situation that Decker is investigating, and it’s a good thing he has the skills to navigate some very risky waters.

I found the look into the lives of the privileged teens he crosses paths with to be terrifying.  I’m not looking forward to my daughter starting high school next year, even if her world will be fairly different.

The mystery itself is good, but not outstanding. What I enjoyed was the quick visit with all the characters I know so well, and getting to know a few more even better.

There is no need to have read the full list of previous books in the series to enjoy this one. I haven’t read Hangman, the previous book, but suspect the context from that one might be nice, and there are clearly spoilers here for the events there. I’ll go back and read it anyway.

I received Gun Games for review from the publisher.  Thank you, Harper Collins.

 
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Posted by on January 12, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Some short reviews

10 Jan

Or, Why I’m never accepting anthologies for review again.

I accepted each of these books for review, and read and enjoyed them, for the most part. Then I sat with open tabs for months, trying to figure out how to write the reviews. I’ve now lost the details of the individual stories and writers in my brain, so I thought I’d set down a few overall thoughts on each and call it a day.

Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange StoriesSteampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories edited by Kelly Link

I picked up this book because I’m intrigued by Steampunk, and would like to know more about it. I love the look, I find the concept fascinating.

After reading the stories in this anthology, I’m still a little puzzled about how Steampunk plays out. In general, I enjoyed them, I’m just not certain they all met my image of what Steampunk is.

Steampunk meets the Wild West seems like an interesting variant– the same time period but another location. Steampunk meets ancient prophets and Steampunk meets the Faery world seemed like an interesting something else (I loved the Faery Story, it was one of my favorites in the book).

I think I need to look up a definitive Steampunk work, and base my genre impressions off of that instead.

Some better reviews of this collection:

The Urban Fantasy AnthologyThe Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale

It’s hard to rate an anthology. I always go in expecting to skip over some stories as being not for me, so if you leave those out, what remains is at about 4 stars for me.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to review this for the 6 months since I read it, and have finally given up. If I couldn’t figure out what to say before, I’m not going to now.

Overall, I enjoyed my reading. Unfortunately for me, the stories I enjoyed most were by authors I already know and enjoy, so I didn’t add to my list of people to try as much as I’d hoped.

More than confirming that I’m a big fan of Charles de Lint, Peter S. Beagle, and Neil Gaiman, among others, it confirmed that I’m a big fan of the subset of Urban Fantasy they describe as Mythic Fiction, and I that I have mixed opinions on Paranormal Romance. I’d never heard of Noir Fantasy before, and I don’t think I’ll make an effort to find more (although I did enjoy a few of the stories in that section as well).

I’ll recommend this for some good writing, and a chance to try out a collection of styles and authors underneath the Urban Fantasy umbrella.

Some other reviews:

I’m sorry for the lack of detailed reviews on both of these books!

 

 
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Posted by on January 10, 2012 in books, reviews

 

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Review: Reamde by Neal Stephenson

21 Dec

Reamde by Neal StephensonMy rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

While there was a really interesting book in there somewhere, there were also way too many coincidences, characters that I could only keep track of by what I was told about them, and just simply too much book.

Summary via Goodreads:

Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune. With plenty of time and money to burn, he became addicted to an online fantasy game in which opposing factions battle for power and treasure in a vast cyber realm. Like many serious gamers, he began routinely purchasing virtual gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers—young professional players in Asia who accumulated virtual weapons and armor to sell to busy American and European buyers.

For Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high-tech start up—a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role-playing game, T’Rain. But the line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidently triggers a virtual war for dominance—and Richard is caught at the center.

In this edgy, 21st century tale, Neal Stephenson, one of the most ambitious and prophetic writers of our time, returns to the terrain of his cyberpunk masterpieces Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, leading readers through the looking glass and into the dark heart of imagination.

If the book had just stuck to that, I would have loved it!  The best part of the book was this core plotline, around an advanced multi-player computer game, and a group of hackers that stashed the cash from the computer virus (REAMDE) they wrote there. The details of the game and the people involved in it were rich and rang true, and the plot itself was ingenious.

I can see the plot necessity of the Russian gangsters that came into it, to provide the conflict to make the plot move. These characters never quite clicked for me, but didn’t upset the balance of the book.

Where the story went overboard for me was when the Islamic terrorists got involved. They convoluted the plot, and added chapter after chapter of running and chasing, and for very little payoff.

The book started with a set of fairly outrageous coincidences. I can deal with this as part of the setup. Unfortunately, there was another round toward the end. This was probably necessary to wrap up everything that was thrown in, but didn’t add to my enjoyment of the book, but rather to the feeling there were just too many pieces needing to be dealt with.

It took me a month to read the 1000+ pages, which is a very long time for me. I enjoyed the core story and some of the primary characters enough to keep me going, but not to find time to keep picking it up, and I can’t quite find the payoff for the time it took.

 
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Posted by on December 21, 2011 in books, reviews

 

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Review: Carrie Goes Off the Map by Phillipa Ashley

14 Dec

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was billed as Romance, but it read like Chick Lit to me, and I found it very enjoyable as such.

Summary via Goodreads:

Carrie Brownhill lets her best friend talk her into a scenic European road trip as the perfect getaway from a nasty breakup with her fiancé. Unexpectedly along for the ride is the gorgeous and intriguing Matt Landor, MD, who sorely tests Carrie’s determination to give up men altogether. Careening through the English countryside in a VW camper van, these two mismatched but perfectly attuned lonely hearts find themselves in hot pursuit of adventure and in uncharted territory altogether…

It delivers on the premise of a crazy cross-country trip, with a fun main character and a sexy leading guy.

Of course, Carrie is on as much of a mental journey as a physical one. I can’t say she goes particularly deep on her path to discovery, but it isn’t that kind of book. It’s the kind where she (and Matt) sleep with other people while not making all that much effort to figure out where they are going, and it’s all OK. They’ll still get to their destination.

The characters were terrific, particularly the secondary ones– both the old friends that carry through the book, and the new ones discovered along the way.  They were quirky without being off-putting (well, except the ones that were meant to be!).

This is a fun, light way to pass some time.  I actually read it while waiting (and waiting) in Urgent Care, and it was perfect for that– Entertaining enough to keep my mind occupied, light enough to drop at any time without worrying about losing context. Enjoy it for what it is.

I received this book for review from the publisher.  Thank you, Sourcebooks!

 
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Posted by on December 14, 2011 in books, reviews

 

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