This book is about a woman who loses her happy ever after - and finds a new one. Alice is a public relations goddess, married to an entertaiment lawyer, and the mom of a very grown-up 5-year-old princess. They're settling into their new lives in the Valley when Alice's husband starts to change. He works out. His clothes change. His hair changes. It ends up being no coincidence when all these changes start with the pick-up of his new client, a famous actress named Rose.
Within weeks, Alex is in his own place (saying he "needs time to think"), Gabby hates Alice, and Alice's life is falling apart. This book follows her journey to new friends, new adventures and new men. Although she talks about not liking people who reinvent themselves, that all that are around her. Somewhere in the book, just about everyone reinvents themselves. Alex becomes Xander, her "prince" Jonny goes from crazy papparazzo to refined photographer, Gabby goes from princess to pre-teen (at 6 1/2)...and she reinvents herself as well. By the end of the book, she becomes a whole new person as well.
I'll admit that at first, I didn't like the book. Alice was too whiny and kept dwelling on things that wouldn't happen. I wanted nothing more than for people to come into her life that would make things better and make her see that she could still get her happily ever after another way. As the book continued, I fell more in love with the story - and I was done with it before I knew it. Emily Giffin - one of my fave authors - recommended this author, and I'm glad she did.
Alex/Xander was a classic ass. I couldn't stand him the entire book. I can't stand people who cheat and can't decide what he wanted...he was weak, pathetic and treated Alice like trash. I was so glad when Jonny came into the picture, because she deserved much more than that jerk. Unfortunately, I know several women who have been in that type of situation and can't let go. I've never been through that particular type of situation before, but I've been betrayed by love before. What are you supposed to when something like that happens? How do you move on? How do you recover? At the end of the book, Alice was still struggling with letting Alex go, but at least Jonny was there to help her find her new happy ending.
I'm not sure of this is Irene's only novel, but I plan on reading more of her books. And it feels so good to finally be on a book roll - already read four books this year. That's double what I read last year, I'm pretty sure. I can't wait to start on my next book adventure.
2 comments:
Sounds like a great story line. Was it slow to develop? I find it hard to get through a book if it takes too long to capture me.
It was a little slow to develop, yeah. It seemed like the main character dwelled too long on the stuff she couldn't change, so it was stuck for a couple of chapters on that. But once it developed, it moved pretty fast! I was surprised - I almost gave up on it.
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