Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
At her best friend's wedding, Angela catches her boyfriend of ten years cheating on her. Plus, her best friend's known about it. She goes back into the wedding, breaks the groom's hand, and makes a huge scene.
She has no idea what to do next, so she flees. She jumps on a plane to New York and doesn't look back.
She instructs the cab driver to take her to a hotel where she meets the concierge, Jenny. Jenny takes one took at Angela and immediately takes her under her wing. She takes her shopping for a new wardrobe and new makeup, attempting to create a more put-together Angela.
She invites Angela out with her friends, who also welcome her with open arms. In a stroke of luck, she meets two guys, both who ask her out on a date. And she has an interview for an online blog for a magazine.
The magazine loves her Bridget Jones meets New York blog idea. Angela begins dating the two men, each very different. While she juggles both of them, she writes about their dates. Her viewers eat up her drama. She has no thought towards her future, she's simply living in the moment and loving it.
Before long, she moves in with Jenny and thinks seriously about staying in New York forever. She loves the city. How can she ever leave it?
Lindsey Kelk knocks it out of the park with her debut novel. I love how Angela falls in love with the city and explores it with eyes wide open. I love the commentary running through her head, especially while she's out on dates (the Cheetos bit, especially). Angela's adventures make you cringe, laugh, and fall in love!
At her best friend's wedding, Angela catches her boyfriend of ten years cheating on her. Plus, her best friend's known about it. She goes back into the wedding, breaks the groom's hand, and makes a huge scene.
She has no idea what to do next, so she flees. She jumps on a plane to New York and doesn't look back.
She instructs the cab driver to take her to a hotel where she meets the concierge, Jenny. Jenny takes one took at Angela and immediately takes her under her wing. She takes her shopping for a new wardrobe and new makeup, attempting to create a more put-together Angela.
She invites Angela out with her friends, who also welcome her with open arms. In a stroke of luck, she meets two guys, both who ask her out on a date. And she has an interview for an online blog for a magazine.
The magazine loves her Bridget Jones meets New York blog idea. Angela begins dating the two men, each very different. While she juggles both of them, she writes about their dates. Her viewers eat up her drama. She has no thought towards her future, she's simply living in the moment and loving it.
Before long, she moves in with Jenny and thinks seriously about staying in New York forever. She loves the city. How can she ever leave it?
Lindsey Kelk knocks it out of the park with her debut novel. I love how Angela falls in love with the city and explores it with eyes wide open. I love the commentary running through her head, especially while she's out on dates (the Cheetos bit, especially). Angela's adventures make you cringe, laugh, and fall in love!
This is a cute book - but the plot is so far-fetched it's hard to take it seriously.
The book is told from the view point of Angela, a 27 year old from London, who catches her fiancee of 10 years in a very compromising position. She decides to flee to New York, and upon arrival is befriended by the concierge of the $375 per night hotel that her NY taxi driver takes her to because she didn't know where to go. The concierge gives her all kinds of things from the hotel storage room, free room service, free spa treatments, and a complete makeover. She then takes her on a shopping spree to Bloomies where our heroine drops about $1,000 on new clothes and makeup. She funds all of this by raiding the joint account she had with her fiancee. The thing is, all she does is eat throughout the entire book - by the end, she should not be able to fit into any of her new clothes. Within 3 days she has moved in with this new friend, and met two wonderful guys (one a handsome, rich investment banker, and the other is the lead singer of her favorite band). The book then follows her adventures with both men as she gets a job with a fabulous magazine as a blog writer. It just seems that everything falls into Angela's lap - nothing like this happens in real life - especially after only 3 days in a new city! I know it's fiction, but really.....
The book is told from the view point of Angela, a 27 year old from London, who catches her fiancee of 10 years in a very compromising position. She decides to flee to New York, and upon arrival is befriended by the concierge of the $375 per night hotel that her NY taxi driver takes her to because she didn't know where to go. The concierge gives her all kinds of things from the hotel storage room, free room service, free spa treatments, and a complete makeover. She then takes her on a shopping spree to Bloomies where our heroine drops about $1,000 on new clothes and makeup. She funds all of this by raiding the joint account she had with her fiancee. The thing is, all she does is eat throughout the entire book - by the end, she should not be able to fit into any of her new clothes. Within 3 days she has moved in with this new friend, and met two wonderful guys (one a handsome, rich investment banker, and the other is the lead singer of her favorite band). The book then follows her adventures with both men as she gets a job with a fabulous magazine as a blog writer. It just seems that everything falls into Angela's lap - nothing like this happens in real life - especially after only 3 days in a new city! I know it's fiction, but really.....
