Review: `For single girls, weddings are like Valentine's Day on steroids.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
Jasmine Clara has the chick lit element down pat. She knows the ins and outs of how women speak, think, react, dream and go glum and is able to translate that into words on paper - a gift many writers who attempt to tell inside jokes about the grotesque reality of life in the 21st century works. She is smart, knows how to spin a tale with velocity and candor and comes out with a winner of a book that should delight all devotees of chick lit novels. (Note: Chick lit is a true category, not a put down - chick lit novels are books that appeal more to women than men because men just don't quite `get it' on many aspects of life in the other lane!).Jasmine Clara shows her hand in her opening pages; `Weddings aren't great occasions for single girls. As much as we appreciate the opportunity to get dolled up in our hottest outfits and take out our $ 700 Jimmy Choo's - the ecstatic smile we wear all night is pretty much as painted on as the polish adorning our freshly varnished nails. For single girls, weddings are like Valentine's Day on steroids.' And with that overture completed, we meet Emily Novat, 32 years of age, recently relationshipless, who decides to enter the Glam Bride Dream Wedding contest in hopes of finding Mr. Right in the process. The hilarious tale places Emily as a daily blogger relating all the details of the `false wedding' she is designing and planning (without a groom in mind...) and how her given talent as a journalist results in her becoming known as the `go to' girl regarding weddings, all of which plunges her ever deeper into the fallacy of it all. Yes, hot romance raises its head but can Emily pull this fiasco off or ....Fun book, especially if you like (or can appreciate) chick lit. Likely Jasmine Clara will find her niche here. Grady Harp, March 14