Category Archives: Chick-Lit

BOOK REVIEW: Forgotten, by Catherine McKenzie

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RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2012
AUTHOR LINKS: WEB / TWITTER / GOODREADS / FACEBOOK
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Canada
FORMAT: Ebook
SOURCE: Purchased
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When everyone thinks you’re dead, how do you start your life over again?

Emma Tupper, a young lawyer with a bright future, sets out on a journey after her mother’s death: to Africa, a place her mother always wanted to visit. But her mother’s dying gift has unexpected consequences. Emma falls ill during the trip and is just recovering when a massive earthquake hits, turning her one-month vacation into a six-month ordeal. 

When Emma returns home, she’s shocked to find that her friends and colleagues believed she was dead, that her apartment has been rented to a stranger and that her life has gone on without her. Can Emma pick up where she left off? Should she? As Emma struggles to recreate her old life, everyone around her thinks she should change – her job, her relationships, and even herself. But does she really want to sacrifice everything she’s working so hard to gain?

MY REVIEW

I am quickly falling in love with Catherine McKenzie, a Canadian author who I just found earlier this year (ok, I didn’t find her, but she’s a new discovery for me who now has her own shelf space in my home library). Continue reading →

BOOK REVIEW: Arranged, by Catherine McKenzie

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RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2012
AUTHOR LINKS: WEB / TWITTER / GOODREADS / FACEBOOK
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Canada
FORMAT: Paperback
SOURCE: Purchased
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Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, good friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share it with, however, she just can’t seem to get it right.

After yet another relationship ends, Anne comes across a business card for what she thinks is a dating service, and she pockets it just in case. When her best friend, Sarah, announces she’s engaged, Anne can’t help feeling envious. On an impulse, she decides to give the service a try because maybe she could use a little assistance in finding the right man. But Anne soon discovers the company isn’t a dating service; it’s an exclusive, and pricey, arranged marriage service. She initially rejects the idea, but the more she thinks about it-and the company’s success rate-the more it appeals to her. After all, arranged marriages are the norm for millions of women around the world, so why wouldn’t it work for her?

A few months later, Anne is travelling to a Mexican resort, where in one short weekend she will meet and marry Jack. And against all odds, it seems to be working out-until Anne learns that Jack, and the company that arranged their marriage, are not what they seem at all.

MY REVIEW

Ever since I finished reading Catherine McKenzie’s wonderful novel, Spin, I was itching to get my hands on some more of her books. It’s always so great to find a gem of a Canadian writer that I felt I had to snatch up everything she had to offer! When I was wandering through the bookstore the other day, waiting for the longest mechanic appointment ever, I picked up a copy of Arranged, which was just released in Canada at the beginning of this month.  Continue reading →

BOOK REVIEW: Anna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins

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RELEASE DATE: December 7, 2010
AUTHOR LINKS: WEB / TWITTER / GOODREADS / FACEBOOK
PUBLISHER: Dutton Children Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
SOURCE: Library
CHALLENGE: 2012 Support Your Local Library Challenge
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Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris – until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he’s taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.

As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near – misses end with the French kiss Anna – and readers – have long awaited?

MY REVIEW

Oh, how I loved this book! I had only heard of Stephanie Perkins recently and had seen Anna and the French Kiss and her newer book, Lola and the Boy Next Door, reviewed on so many of the blogs I follow. Everyone seemed to agree that both books were fantastic, so I immediately had to put a hold on one at the library. Continue reading →