I started reading this with no expectations and enjoyed it, the character Jo is not a role model, not without flaws nor necessarily someone like you or someone you will relate to at all, but she is an amalgamation of many people we probably know or hear about in our modern society and reading about her character and the other characters I this book was both entertaining and thought-provoking. It was humorous and cringeworthy in places but not every book or every book character needs to be uber-cool to work. I won't give any of the story away because I think your best chance at enjoying this book is to go into it without expectations. I was really waiting to fall in love with this book but it just did not happen at all.Ultimately I found the main character Jo extremely irritating. Her overriding characteristics were that of clinginess and desperation and she sounded like a lovesick teenager most of the time not a thirty five year old woman. Her only ambition in life was to get married and she permanently needed a man on the go otherwise it seems that she just couldn't cope (which is slightly demeaning to all women out there as it is basically saying that all women need a man in their life otherwise what is the point?!) I felt like shouting at her GET A GRIP WOMAN!Then cliché of the century comes along in the dark, mysterious and brooding Dean who suddenly realised that all he ever needed in life was a woman to fix his broken heart...I MEAN REALLY? IS THIS FOR GUY FOR REAL??? He spent his whole life shunning commitment and then suddenly after spending 48 hours with possibly the most irritating woman on the planet he decides he cannot possibly live without her!Overall I found this book very hard to believe and extremely boring because of the very bare plotline. I would not recommend it.
A sufficiently fun light read that I would have given this 4 stars if not for the craptastic ending.
—bigdixon
Really couldn't get into this despite all the 5 star reviews.
—rms511
Fantastic book, well written. Always a good twist at the end.
—martasanch07
Quite a good read but not mind-blowing.
—anya
One word - AMAZING!
—Jake
