Review: With a little help from my friends
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2013
With the assistance of some female friends, a nave yet rather sweet college boy gradually morphs into the person he was always meant to be. An adjustment to his thinking process initiated by the failure of his "clever" plan to socially date a college coed, gets him in touch with his true nature. And in the process our hero finally finds love and acceptance. On a more mundane level, the protagonist eventually achieves the goal of getting a date for the gala bash, though not exactly the way he had planned. Although not an exceedingly deep novel in the sense that the author doesn't deal with really serious social issues as she did in her previous books, this work stands out as another fine, enjoyable and highly readable effort from a novelist whose writing just keeps getting better and better. Incidentally, I loved the touching references to the movie "Les Miserables" and I will surely look for some mention of the New York Mets in the next book!