By Laura Dave
Emmy faces the truth that her fiance doesn't really love her and so one morning, while they are on a trip, she takes off her engagement ring, leaves it on her pillow and walks away. She finds a job at a tackle shop in the area and just kind of exists for the next three years.
Her brother is getting married and Emmy goes home to attend the wedding. While there she discovers that her brother is in love with someone other than his fiance. They get into a disagreement over whether he should go ahead with the wedding, Emmy saying he should be honest with the wife-to-be and the brother not wanting to hurt her by cancelling the wedding. Meanwhile, Emmy gets interested in an old friend of her brother's and this man seems interested in her too. But the old lover shows up, and Emmy begins to think they could make another go of it.
This was an OK book. Pretty typical of chick lit. Girl loves wrong boy. They break up. Girl meets new boy, possible love connection, but wrong boy comes back into the picture. Girl realizes she is messing up her life, not only in the romance department, and that wrong boy is not for her and new boy is the right one. She straightens out and gets back on track and makes her new love connection. End of story, girl is wiser and more centered now. Eh.
I read this book because on the back it is described as "a triumph," "a delicious comedy of manners," "fine, funny, surprising," "suspenseful," and "immensely appealing." It wasn't any of these things. It was just another ordinary book in the chick lit genre.
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