Review: Great, fun read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2012
Purchased the Kindle edition and read this in one night in under 2 hours.This fun book was a very quick and easy read.  Josie is a physically gorgeous girl with a good personality, kind-hearted, and some brains.  The exact extent of her brains is unknown since it's not really made clear exactly what she does as a junior copywriter.  However, you can rest assured that Josie is not a dumb airhead as many chick lit heroines can be (a la Sophie Kinsella's heroines).  So, we are already off to a good start with this book.  However, every heroine must have a limitation that makes them seem human, and Josie's is clumsiness or just general bad luck.The book is predictable, but then that's what chick lit is--predictable.  In fact, almost all books are very predictable if you stick with a genre long enough, so I didn't have a problem with the predictability aspect of this book.  It's also entertaining, and it's just really nice to read a chick lit book where the character isn't getting into one mishap after another.  Josie is actually very "real" in the sense that she makes real-world decisions and has real-world goals.  So she dreams about dating or marrying a movie star.  How many of us wouldn't?  Especially if you actually had an opportunity to meet one and looke the way Josie does.  And that's another thing that I really enjoyed about this book--that Josie was an attractive girl with no weight issues.  As she describes herself, people are always telling her that she could have been a model.  It's her clumsiness that prevented her from being one.I was really pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this book when I finished it.  So much so, that I intended to purchase the sequel.  However, the reviews on that one made it clear that it's more about Josie--and she's a little more scatterbrained and more like a typical airhead chick lit heroine in the sequel--with very little Josie/Jake interaction that I've decided to pass on that one.Also, one thing to know about this book is that it ends abruptly.  I am used to seeing a "happily ever after" of some sort written into a book, but this story is clearly meant to continue.  It's like the Lord of the Rings triology.  Rememember watching the first movie and when it ended, you knew that it ended at a logical point, but you also clearly knew that the plot hadn't ended?  Just like that.