Review: Fun chick-lit for the holidays
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
Taylor Barnes is a 32-year-old corporate lawyer aspiring to make partner. The problem? She's a workaholic gal with no time for a social life or for keeping in touch with her family. The dilemma? She needs to project a balance between work and social life says her boss, or she won't make partner in the firm. Because making partner is her reason for living, she decides to make things look good by hiring a man to impersonate her serious boyfriend.This isn't just chick-lit lite, however. There is an underlying edge to its comedy as the author seems to be writing with tongue firmly implanted in cheek. It's as if the story is so preposterous we are expected to believe it as truth, knowing as we do, that's all in fun. But seriously. There are life lessons in there for the characters, and perhaps also for the readers. No heavy hand, here, though. The whole story is laced with funny scenes, clever ploys, and cute dialogue. I like this book.My main quibble with it (reason for not giving it five stars) is that this Kindle version needed a couple more proofreads. There were many, many places where too many spaces were marked with underlines, as if they had been highlighted to fix but never made it to the edit. Also, there were quite a few misplaced words. For example, she used "shuttered" where she meant "shuddered," and "lightening" instead of "lightning." My other reason for not giving it five stars is that it had a few too many Tom Cruise references and I got sick of them.Otherwise, this was a quick, fun read. It took me about an hour and 45 minutes to complete. It made me smile, and I only groaned once, at the very last line of the book. So there.