Too Good to be True

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Summary: intriguing chick lit tale
Review: Air Traffic Controller Carey Browne flies from Dublin to New York on her vacation. On the flight she meets Ben Russell, co-owner with his sister Freya, of a successful chain of health-food stores. Still smarting from a relationship with a married man that went sour, Carey wants nothing to do with men, but Ben is persistent. They enjoy their first night in Manhattan together.

Perhaps it was the alcohol, but the two Irish tourists fly to Vegas and get married. They return to their hometown of Dublin where his sister hosts a party in which family and friends honor the newlyweds. However, Freya invites Ben's former girlfriend Leah Ryder who thinks he is a form of excrement and a few drinks later wrecks the gala and more. Meanwhile Freya has her own concerns as she suffers with the early arrival of menopause.

This is an intriguing chick lit tale that spends much of the book looking deep into the impulsive act of marrying without any solid basis. However the story line takes a perpendicular spin by abruptly refocusing from the shaky relationship between Carey and Ben to the physical troubles suffered by Freya. Either subplot would have made a strong lead, but neither takes charge for the preponderance of the novel as if there were two novellas. Still the cast is solid, the location terrific and the two competing subplots interesting albeit shortchanged.



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Summary: Great read!
Review: I just finished reading this book and it was awesome! I really enjoyed the characters and the story was definitely a page turner. I'm quite pleased at the ending of this book (finally a book that did not let me down at the end). I recommend this book to anyone who is a hopeless romantic, like myself.