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The characters were all a tiny bit predictable but I loved them all nevertheless (except Lexi’s sister Amy who had a knack for making trouble at the worst time possible). Lexi for example was the essential chick lit heroine — not too much money, colorful tastes, a few close friends that she loves to go out with them not to mention share gossip, etc. — mainly not perfect but with no major faults, the kind of heroine any chick lit reader could identify with. Eric was quite priggish under his mask of almost perfect politeness, oscillating from annoying to actually amusing (the whole Mont Blanc scene :P ). For some reason I have disliked him from the very first moment, despite Lexi seeing him as perfection itself back then. Jon… I bet he would have been a very very promising character if he had a more consistent part in the story. As it is his main role is to keep telling Lexi “I love you and you love me” every now and then, but I am fairly certain he could have pulled off something more if he had the chance :)

I was amused to notice the similarity this book has with the first book in the Shopaholic series: both heroines’ lives sort of free-fall uncontrollably, but then, just as they were about to hit the bottom, something happens and everything is back to normal and pretty much on its way to perfection :) (which I don’t mind in the least given how much I enjoy happy endings :P)

I personally think the author has done a great job with this book. Especially when it comes to Lexi and the questions arising in her mind. I was moved almost to tears by “the-old-recently-back” Lexi trying to be accepted again by her old friends, who treated her the way they thought “the-new-recently-gone” Lexi deserved. I have loved the way the author made me root for Lexi, the old and the new — after all, we all make bad choices, don’t we? Also, while the love story between Jon and Lexi wasn’t exactly three-dimensional (a bit understandable given that their best moments have already gone by at the moment Lexi “wakes up”, and they’re already an item), I sort of got caught into it and kept my fingers crossed for it until the very end (although well, I could see through the cliche “wife cheats on husband but the husband was bad and deserved to be cheated on anyway”). While not a very deep book (who expects deep from chick lit anyway) it was fun, fast paced and I enjoyed it a lot.

What I liked most: Cliche but my very favorite moment was when Lexi was down and she wrote on a piece of paper her two options to go on: 1) give up 2) don’t give up, and, after considering the situation for a while she decided not to give up because if she did she was never going to know how it might have all turned out.

What I liked least: Nothing, I have loved the whole book (although there is the issue of why has Lexi cheated on Eric for all that time if her nature was so against unfaithfulness but there probably was an explanation for that too :P).

Recommend it? Yes (if you’re into chick lit of course :) )

Written by the same author:
Shopaholic & Baby
The Undomestic Goddess
Can You Keep a Secret?
Twenties Girl

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