Review: Crazy to waste your time reading this!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2012
OK, serves me right for not waiting for other people to review the book before I jumped in and started reading it. And it doesn't help that the cover looks like a good romcom movie with a red-haired Katherine Heigl and maybe John Cusack?.Sierra is a feisty (but predictable) matchmaker who lives in a small town, a few hours from LA. Marc is a big city corporate raider (a la Richard Gere in Pretty Woman?). He comes to Sierra's small town (cutely name "Love"), and slowly falls for Sierra over playful banter and many, many pages where they "moon" over each other. There's a decent sub-plot that has Marc's mom remarrying after divorcing his awful/misogynistic father. There are some "colorful" characters, such as "Flo," who acts suspiciously like a certain t.v. Flo, even though the former is suppose to be an Aussie. Same wisecracking, dime store perfume, know-it-all..75% of the book is frothy and runs smoothly along; it's not Dostoevsky, but it's competent. Sadly, the last 25% is mindbogglingly poor--predictable, trite, obvious, unbelievable. Marc goes back to L.A., and of course he can't sleep, can't eat, can't work, can't do anything but think of Sierra--really? He winds up back in Love for his mother's wedding, and what do you know, asks Sierra to take six months off and travel the world with him. Then he wants them to move in together when they get back, and if that works out, maybe down the aisle together. Really? I don't know of any man who would ask to "maybe" move in six months from now. Wouldn't that be something he would ask when they were say, sipping cappuccinos in Venice, or a Beaujolais on the Cte d'Azur? I was half expecting her to buy a lottery ticket on the way to the airport and win 100 mil or so, and then maybe as she was having one of her "nutty" intuitions, stumble on a cancer cure. The ending is that bad!