Helpful Score: 3
Jasmine Burns is about to get the biggest break of her fledgling career - the chance to assist the famous costume designer Arturo Mastriani for the off-Broadway production of "Romeo and Juliet." There's only one catch; she also needs to disguise the play's Romeo from being recognized, since he's Josh Toby, the Sexiest Man Alive and one of the biggest moviestars on the planet. It should be every woman's dream come true, but Jasmine is severely phobic around attractive men. She doesn't want the job. Especially when her gypsy sister tells her that her One True Love is named Josh Toby.
This book surprised me. I had been charmed by an excerpt I read elsewhere, so I decided to pick it up and give it a try. While it's not as funny as the excerpt I'd read, I was still amused and swept along with the characters. The entire book was incredibly compulsive reading, and I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. It's hardly perfect - Jasmine's whining about her problems with men gets old 2/3's of the way through - but I liked that I was fairly uncertain what direction the author was going to go with the romance most of the way through the story. I enjoyed almost all of the characters, though I'm going to say I'm not picking up the next book because it's about the gypsy sister Amy and she was the sole character in the entire book I disliked. Not because she was flat, but because I just didn't like her manipulative nature and personality.
But I finished the book with a smile on my face, which ultimately was the goal, I'm sure.
This book surprised me. I had been charmed by an excerpt I read elsewhere, so I decided to pick it up and give it a try. While it's not as funny as the excerpt I'd read, I was still amused and swept along with the characters. The entire book was incredibly compulsive reading, and I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. It's hardly perfect - Jasmine's whining about her problems with men gets old 2/3's of the way through - but I liked that I was fairly uncertain what direction the author was going to go with the romance most of the way through the story. I enjoyed almost all of the characters, though I'm going to say I'm not picking up the next book because it's about the gypsy sister Amy and she was the sole character in the entire book I disliked. Not because she was flat, but because I just didn't like her manipulative nature and personality.
But I finished the book with a smile on my face, which ultimately was the goal, I'm sure.
