Review: It's like a gateway rom-com
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
I bought this book more to support the author (who is awesome) more than to read.  And I expected it to be a boringly painful book of longing and looks and heaving.I was wrong.The only heaving done is by pregnant women.  The longing comes in sparing doses, and the looks are mixed in with great laughs.  Take any situation.  Make it awkward enough to where you'll be laughing at it.  And discover that awkward has a secret setting of 11.  Awkward mothers.  Awkward ex-boyfriends.  Awkward fiances and sister-in-laws.  It even has that crazy aunt who shows up at reunions and no one's ever clear exactly who's aunt she is, but she eats all the shrimp.A very funny book.  Romantic comedies are usually like a painful series of running gags, but in this book, that works quite well since the premise is having to re-live all the moments from various romantic comedies where your girlfriend or wife teared up.  If you are a man looking to score points with your woman, this is a book that you an actually enjoy before saying "I read one of your books.  Now we get to read A Game of Thrones together."