Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Opposite of Love


I love smart chick lit books. They are the ones that don't scream chick lit, but really they still are. The cover isn't pink and girlie, and the main character actually has a brain and doesn't need to rely on a guy or endless shopping to make her happy. This is one of those books. Even though it is about love and realizing that you had the right person when you no longer had them.

Emily breaks up with her boyfriend Andrew when she gets the feeling that he's going to ask her to marry him. Andrew sounds like the perfect guy, because it's a lot easier to make one up on paper than it is to actually find one in real life. Emily knows that Andrew is Mr. Right but gets worried that she isn't Mrs. Right and ends things before they get any further. Then Emily kind of has a break down. Quits her job at a law firm, tries to get Andrew back into her life, but he doesn't want anything to do with her because she 'broke them'. Then she finds out that her grandpa is dying, and basically her life just falls apart.

But hey, this is a chick book so of course everything works out. She gets a new job, she and Andrew get back together. The grandpa dies, which is sad, but it brings her and her father closer together.

It's a good book. A fast read. Read pretty much all of it in one day. So check it out.

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