MY SYNOPSIS
Imagine
This: You are in between cities and in between boyfriends. Kind of easy when
you are a flight attendant, jetting all over the world seeing new places and
new hotties. Currently, your number one flavour is a pilot, who pilots your
plane, until he breaks your spleen and then
your heart.
You thought
you were invincible. But why does this breakup hurt so much? Perhaps you are
not used to guys ditching you? Or this triggers a childhood memory you’d rather
want buried. The only solution is to run away, regroup, and get back on your
feet.
But where
exactly could the newly-dumped and single find refuge without bumping into
senior citizens walking hand-in-hand and staring at one another longingly?
Delaware,
Black Dog Bay, centre for the recently heartbroken.
With the Eat
Your Heart Out bakery, Better Off Bed and Breakfast, and Whinery Bar, what’s
not to love about this place with likeminded heartbroken tourists and a sexy
mayor who doesn’t want to give you an hour of his Friday night. Yes, you are
back on your feet again, and getting the mayor to lose his chip on his shoulder
and go out with you would sure keep you occupied and away from moping around
with Kleenex.
But the baddest bitch in town is out to get you
and keep you away from your mayor and is willing to take the whole town down.
It’s not like you want to even spend all your days in Black Dog Bay anyway, or
that you might actually be falling for the mayor. Which you are not, really. So
you could just leave all of Black Dog Bay behind, your new friends and life and
just fly somewhere else. Like you always do.
Then you see
the Black dog, and your priorities change…
Summer Benson’s life summed up for
your delight.
MY REVIEW
So you would
like the storyline of this title. Girl gets her heartbroken, Girl retreats to
breakup central, Girl picks up new life with new friends, new enemies and not
forgetting a new love interest. Girl must decide if she should triumph over
love or let herself be overcome by it. It’s beautiful, and with an engaging
plot that’s full of heart and fast-paced, there’s really no putting this book
down. A star to the storyline. ── ★
Summer, the
main character is plain likable. Has a cynicism towards love that isn’t off-putting
(because how many of us haven’t had our hearts broken?), funny and with so much
spunk that gives this title lots of attitude. You would love her for strange
advices on how to hook the perfect guy, you would love her for her penchant to
rob clients to pay hairdressers who are in dire need of the tip, and her dislike
for anything formal and black-tie. A toast to her! ── ★★
Other
characters make reading this title also fun. Hattie Huntington, Black Dog Bay’s
no.1 bully (who would sue a saloon if an employee mistakenly splashed nail lacquer
over her lids). Hollis, Black Dog Bay’s number one bookshop owner, stocking her
shelves with body-rippers and self-help. Jenna, owner of the Whinery, who has
the best gloomy song for every right moping mood. Ingrid, sister of the mayor
who doesn’t know a thing or two about using facial wipes (how much more makeup?). The mayor, Dutch Jansen, who lives up to all
your expectations as women in need of hot distraction from your monotonous
husbands. Jake Sorensen, Black Dog Bay’s acclaimed rebound guy on call to rip
off the little pieces band aid (and clothing) after your breakup. And the ever-persistent
senior citizen constituents who wouldn’t give Summer and our mayor sometime alone
if they hardly ever come close to getting any. ── ★★★
Funny and
ridiculous, I laughed at lots of moments. A star to the humor. ── ★★★★★
Now, I liked
this book. But I really wished I could have loved
it. Throw in a few plot complications, make it less predictable, and it would
have been just fan-freaking-brilliant!
My rating:
Four/ Five stars.
Beth
Kendrick’s Cure For The Common Breakup, your fun-packed rom-com this Christmas,
is available on amazon.
Can’t wait
to ravish New Uses For Old Boyfriends (by the same author, of course) coming up
2015.
I recommend
this title to anyone who has ever been a flight attendant or would love to be
one, anyone who loves a heroine who lacks all the innocence of an English rose,
anyone who loves their chicklit with ridiculous humor yet having lots of heart
to make you swoon when the final page is flipped over.
My work not
done here. Off to post my review on goodreads.
