MY SYNOPSIS
Imagine this: You’ve moved to a new town due to a reason
you’d rather not think about. You are now an estate agent fairly happy, living
with your sixty-year old aunt sipping teas in a garden of roses and all that
kind.
You are good at your job, caring and loving. Not shrewd as
all estate managers are pictured to be with a pitch fork. All your clients love
you. And so does your boss, who you’ve indulged yourself in a two year relationship
with. God knows you love him as much as he… loves himself.
So maybe if perhaps your job entails convincing old people
out of their houses into retirement homes, or searching for homes for the most
indecisive people on earth, or what of the stingy ones with low budgets and big
dream houses, and your aunty getting involved with a younger man, or your boyfriend
ACCIDENTALLY proposing to you after he’s taken you out.
Enough trouble for you to deal with!
But not when illegal criminal activities come into the
picture. And your boyfriend―oops, fiancé is acting suspicious lately. God help
him, you might cut his balls if he’s cheating on you!
But we all know of someone who might want to cut your balls.
The reason you left your previous job. He’s back. And it seems like he’s pissed
at you, for, perhaps, letting his wife abandon him?
MY REVIEW
I liked this book. The storyline was perfect. The whole girl
runs away, starts a new life as an estate agent (new), finds a guy who wants
her cutting carbs as much as he wants her claiming the necessary documents of a
senior citizen’s house (new), aunty in love with a younger guy (new), aunty
having to deal with the pain in the arse daughters of younger guy (new), then
the old life comes back to cut her balls (new). Cheers to Katie Fforde, and
cheers to the complications of life.──★
Told in third-person points of view narrative of Bella and
Alice, her aunt, (don’t you just love reading non-gender benders?), I found
each of their voices unique and personalities as well. I know writers who’d
just jumble them all up that you’d think each character had a split personality
of the other. But Katie Fforde handled it well. The younger audience would
place their shoes in Bella’s, the thirty-something’s, and root for Alice
undergoing the perils of loving a younger man, and vice versa.──★★
The characters in this book were well-crafted besides the
mains. From Jane, the sweet old woman who wouldn’t let go of her house for a
retirement home, To the Agnews, the indecisive couple who wanted more for less.
Mrs. Macey, a cantankerous woman who wanted her house off the market quick yet
didn’t consider the damp smell of cat pee was the reason no one might have wanted
it. Tina, the take-charge hilarious secretary. Ed Unsworth, the dickhead who’s
lived his life outsmarting people out of their homes. Dominic, the George
Clooney look-alike who’s out to get our Bella’s balls (not really, and speaking
metaphorically). Michael, the super-charming sweet divorcé who has the hots for
Alice. Nevil, the fiancé who plans the wedding down to the gown he wants his
bride wearing. I loved them all!──★★★
Humor in this book was OK. Throughout I think there were two
or three really laugh-out-loud moments and lots of chuckling ones in there. ──★★★★But
everyone knows I love my Women’s Fiction (or all other books) utterly
hilarious, so I wished this was too.
So my rating: Four/Five stars.
You can purchase The Perfect Match by Katie Fforde in both
Kindle and Paperback (but I believe paperback does it more justice!)
I recommend this book to anyone who’s always been a fan of
Katie Fforde as she never disappoints in this title too. Anyone who wants to
know the ins and outs of an estate agent’s life (so they can finally sympathize
with the world’s most shrewd characters). Anyone who enjoys reading books about
older women starting all over again in the romance department and seeking some
action in their private lives as well. Anyone who wants a good suspenseful book
should also read this.
My work not done here. Off to post my review on Goodreads.
