Overall Rating- 3.5
Cleanliness Rating- 3- for some language (including a few f-words)
From Publisher’s Weekly
This latest adult novel by the prolific Cabot (she's responsible for the ever-popular Princess Diaries franchise) unfolds, like 2002's The Boy Next Door, enfolds entirely through e-mails, journals, instant messages, phone mail, deposition transcripts, notes scribbled on menus, to-do lists and other hallmarks of a modern girl's life. Kate Mackenzie, an idealistic HR representative at the New York Journal, has just been forced by her evil boss, Amy Jenkins, to fire Ida Lopez, the wildly popular dessert cart lady at the company cafeteria. Ida bakes delectable goodies, but she won't serve them to priggish Stuart Hertzog, the paper's legal counsel, who happens to be engaged to Amy, known as the T.O.D. (tyrannical office despot) to Kate and her best friend and co-worker Jen. Sweet Ida sues for wrongful termination, and Stuart charges his younger brother, Mitch, with handling this delicate matter. But Mitch actually cares about justice more than his brother's witchy fiancee (he's only working at the family firm at his sick father's request), and he quickly confounds Kate's expectations with his Rocky and Bullwinkle tie and "tie-him-to-the-bed" good looks. When the T.O.D. tries to lay the blame for her HR blunder on Kate, Mitch goes to the furthest reaches of lawyerly chivalry to save his ladylove.
My review
This book was really cute. I was a little skeptical of how it was written (through emails, journals, instant messages, voicemail messages, etc). I was afraid that it wouldn’t flow very well or that you wouldn’t get enough details. But, I was pleasantly surprised. You actually really get to know the characters very well. I found myself really loving Kate and Mitch and really hating Amy and Stuart. I did wish there was a bit more description in some of the scenes and with the writing style, it seemed to kind of just give the main points but not all the descriptive details. Overall, though, I found it a uniquely wonderful idea as it breaks the monotony of a novel and is a fresh new way of telling a story. This book is a fast read and very enjoyable
1 comment:
Hey Jennie and Summer,
I was pleasantly surprised with this book as well. I like Boy Next Door better though, so you should try that one too. Thanks for doing this site, I have added many books to my list on Goodreads!
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