Rating: 
Summary: Witty Wow
Review: I laughed out-loud reading this book. Finnamore's wit is wry, caustic, and, at times, dead on. Eve, our heroine, whines a bit much; even though her whining is part of the comedy of the book it does grate after a while. Other than that, a good read. Morbid and funny.
Rating:
Summary: Four and 1/2 actually for this!
Review: I hesitate to call this chick lit because I believe it is a bit more serious than that. Which is a good thing! :) The book has a very serious vein in it, near the last third of the book. Which was very surpising to me, but the author made it work.Eve is an intelligent, together thirty something who has run the gauntlet of bad men and has still come out of it with not only a good man, but a good job and best friends. Yet she can still hear the biological clock ticking and, after over a year with Michael, belives engagement and marriage are not only the ONLY options, but the most logical ones. Bring on the bridal magazines, gorgeous rings, and wedding bells!
Yet, while she loves Michael, after engagement Eve fears losing herself. His sock on the floor is no longer a sock on the floor she says, its a sock on the floor for the rest of my life! She'll never get get to take home another man, never again be carefree and a "girl" in the sense that she is single. And then there are the pressures of the wedding, a nit picking mother-in-law, and a history of failed family relationships. Will she jump ship and swim for shore? After silly fights with Michael over chicken broth and garlic, long talks with her therapist Reuben, delving into her past, and comforting a dying best friend, Eve realizes what is really important: the man of your dreams, friends, and family. And that making a lifetime committment doesn't neccessarily mean selling your soul.
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