Review: Great book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
I really liked the lead character in this book, Josie McMaster. She's feisty, independent and real. Her best friend Matt is also a wonderful addition to the story, as is her new friend Jennifer and her newly acquired boyfriend, Jake.  In high school, she was known as McMaster the Disaster, but she's sure that at 26, she's finally outgrown that horrible nickname and the poor self-esteem that went with it. She's a successful copywriter in NewYork, she's saving money for a trip to Europe, she has good friends.  Josie's mother is sure that Josie will die unmarried and will never give her grandchildren, and she tells her so at every opportunity.When a wealthy socialite marries the brother of a famous movie star, they hold a lottery for the position of bridesmaids. Half of the money for the wedding and half for charity, at ten dollars a ticket, the lottery brings in 100,000 entries. Josie is disgusted by the whole stunt, even though she's had a secret crush on the movie star for years, and swears she would never enter. Imagine her surprise when her name is one of the winning four! Her mother entered her without her knowledge. Her roommate is jealous, her friend Matt dusts off his design skills to help with her wardrobe and her mother promises to pay for her European vacation if she'll stay in the wedding party.When she meets her movie star crush, he's even better in person than she could have imagined. To keep herself grounded, Josie starts a "disaster diary"  writing down some of her most embarrassing moments so that she won't ever get a big head. Throughout all the wedding hoopla, Josie and Jake, the movie star, forge a relationship beginning with friendship. The press goes crazy, making all sorts of speculations and paparazzi start following Josie around, giving her a hard time.  Because of erroneous stories in the tabloids, Josie loses her job, her mother stops speaking to her and her roommate steals her "disaster diary", sells it to the press and moves out without warning.Despite all these things, Jake stands by Josie. One of the other lottery bridesmaids turns out to be a good friend who happens to need a new apartment, and Josie finds a job as a ghost writer for a celebrity autobiography in Europe with pay four times what she was making. All those embarrassing things that got published in the paper? They made people laugh and tell Josie about the same sorts of things that had happened to them. All the feedback she received was positive, except from her mother, so life ended up looking good for Josie.Heat factor mild.