Review: Cute, closer to real life than some would like
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2013
Ok, so although being left at the "altar" is not fun or lighthearted, I did find the book to be that kind of read. I can say that Susan drove me absolutely nuts, but have to remind myself that there are so many people that fall into this same trap.Susan basically planned her life out down to the "T". She found what she thought was the perfect man, had her career and was getting read to walk down the aisle. What she totally overlooked is the "nerdy" best friend who has loved her from the start of their friendship back in college. Easy to do when we only see what someone looks like and not who they are inside. Everyone does that, and it always takes forever before someone sees the shallowness of this, but that is not to say people don't still get caught up in what a person looks like. She did. She loved Kevin, but he was just her friend. Until she sees him 6 years after college and realizes the nerd is now a hunk. What drove me nuts about her isn't the above, it is that she NEVER got that he loved her and that she obviously loved him given she could not stand the idea of him never being in her life in the future or imagining him with someone else. That and the fact that she never said the right things to him until the end, but then the book would be a novella, right?Now for Kevin. I loved him, but dang, I'm with Liz...he needed to grow a pair. I get that he was turned down in college, but once they got involved, how could he not try to talk to her or woo her into a relationship? Again, I can't argue the reality that the above happens more often than not, but well, it just frustrated me. He frustrated me in that he just came across as such a catch, but without the confidence to see it through with her.I have to give the author credit that the book probably fit a lot of people, and it was fun to read for the most part ;)