Back Cover:Scatty, funny and smart, Lucy is a hopeless romantic. With an unshakeable faith in happy endings, she drives her friends Meg and Chloe crazy as she tries time and again to maker her best friend Tom fall in love with her.
Then Lucy meets the man of her dreams - or so it seems. But when she's faced with a case of mistaken identity, a noble quest, a lovelorn serenade and a duel to the bitter end, Lucy must confront the eternal question: is true loove fact, fiction, or something in between?
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Thoughts:
For a chic lit book, this is larger than your average book, which I think is a good thing. I'm a quick reader with a 3-hour commute so anything that lasts more than 1 day for me gets bonus points.
The characters in this are quite enjoyable. You always get a little bit of typecasting trying to make the characters different from each other, but this does feel cookie-cutter.
Our protagonist, Lucy, is an actress and as such suffers from a touch of the dramatic, but its funny and a little endearing, and her friends do get jack of it from time to time, as certainly they would in real life.
Lucy does, in a Friends-convenient manner, have 2 female friends. Add to that Tom, the friend she keeps sleeping with, Percy the new friend made early in the book (who is joyously British) and Byron, the new 'man of her dreams' and you get the standard comedy 3 males. Is 6 some kind of majic number for key cast? Any more than 6 and its all too much, noone can keep up?
The characters do all add to the storyline, which is something. And they are likeable without being perfect. So general win here.
The storyline is hardly unpredictable, but the chick lit genre is rarely one for twist endings. Regardless, its a well-written, fun, light-hearted read which is exactly what I was in the mood for.
Score: 3.5/5
*Image borrowed from http://www.boomerangbooks.com.au
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