MY SYNOPSIS
Imagine This: Your life has been teetering from one
party to another, one tequila shot to another. And off late, you are finding it
hard to show up at work in clean clothes and without a hangover. This means,
not even your boss can yell at you.
So when you
are given the boot by your friend-boss for being ‘less serious in life’, you
have nowhere and no one to turn to except for your long-enstranged grandmother.
Your
grandmother was quite a famous personality in the mid-twentieth century,
charming the whole of London and New York bachelors and being the toast of all
functions with her Good Woman Guides that teach women ways to hook a Good
Bloke. But these days, your grandmother is kinda broke, even though she’d die
before she admits it, and she is relying on reprinting her Good Woman Guides to
be able to fend off the bailiffs.
Except the
publishers have other plans. They think your gran’s Good Woman Guides happened
in the fifties and should stay in the fifties as there’s no modern woman who
would hook a man using the ways suggested in her guides.
But your
grandmother is resilient, and using you, a modern girl at heart who’s anything
but a Good Woman as an experiment to prove whoever uses her guides would end up
hooking the bachelor of their dreams.
And your
grandmother isn’t helping picking the man of a lot of girls’ dreams and your nightmares, as target of this project.
Jessica Beam’s adventure to prove her
grandmother’s Good Woman Guides should be stacked in a corner gathering dust, summarised for your delight.
MY REVIEW
This book
was good.
I loved the
storyline. It was downright funky. Something you except a classic chick-lit
title to entail. Girl loses the best thing in life, her mum, and numbs her pain
with parties and casual one-night stands—fab! Girl gets sacked out of her job
and bounces back to her grandmother who’s suddenly on a mission to groom her
into being the Good Woman—fab! A star to the storyline.── ★
You would
love the main character, Jess. Very juvenile at the beginning, if you’d ask me.
But her change throughout the novel and her maturity is stunning. She develops
from a character you’d wrinkle your nose at from the start, to a character that
you could understand and—if not relate to—enjoy reading about. A star to her.── ★★
Other
characters make this read lovely as well. There is the Granny, who begins every
chapter dropping quotes from her Good Woman Guide you’d mostly always nod in
agreement to. There’s Peach, the housekeeper for granny who’s shy and hasn’t
ever had sex despite pushing towards thirty. There’s Summer, the jealous bitchy
friend you’d hate so much. There’s Leo Frost, the demigod every female seems to
have the hots for except our lead who finds him too much of a man-ho and
arrogant. There’s one doctor down Granny’s apartment building who functions as
a shoulder to cry on, and a shoulder to throw your leg over for a good fuck. A
star to all these characters!── ★★★
There’s so
much humour in this book you can’t help but keep rubbing your hind head in pain
for throwing it back against the wooden head rest of your chair for a good
laugh!── ★★★★
I really
wished I loved, loved, this book. I wish it wasn’t that predictable. But either
way, it was a good read. Not the kind you’d throw out your window and regret
buying because it is too predictable you couldn’t take it anymore.
My rating:
Four/Five stars (4/5 stars).
Kirsty
Greenwood’s The Vintage Guide To Love and Romance is available on amazon.
I recommend
this book to anyone who wants something light and quick and enjoying this
summer. Anyone who loves their chick-lit laden with character makeovers should
pick this. Any woman who wants something that could be a modern-take on a
fairytale should rush for it. And anyone who wants a book to keep them laughing
and smiling all through.
My work not
done here. Off to post my review on Goodreads.
