A light-hearted chicklit that neither strains your brain nor insults your intelligence.
Sure, they Meet Cute (she's wearing a fish costume and about the be struck down by a runaway gelato cart), sparks fly, there's The Misunderstanding (she's misinformed about his sexual orientation), the Slow Build (complicated by The Misunderstanding), followed by the Big Reveal, the Hot Monkey Sex, and The Menace to It All, which has to be defeated before the Happy Ever After.
That's all formulaic stuff, but Brandt's light hand and a heroine who's not a ditz -- a little klutzy, yes, and a bit slow on the uptake, lift this one above the average for the genre.
Heroine Savannah Taylor is a bit of an anal-compulsive, planning her wedding to Mr. Obviously Not Right with the care and precision of a Moon shot, only to have her big day ruined by a pesky arrest warrant ending in cuffs around the wrist rather than a ring on the finger. It gets cleared up â her identity has been stolen, and those unpaid bills and questionable financial dealings aren't hers at all â but not until Mr. ONR has decided she's too much trouble for wife material. She decides the answer to her broken heart and oh-so-boring accountant job is to take off for Florida and run down the woman who stole her identity and ruined her life, and maybe kick up her heels a bit along the way.
To support herself while she's chasing down her nemesis, Savannah takes a number of unsatisfying jobs (see fish costume, above), rents a room in a sleepy motel suddenly overrun with spring-break college students, and ultimately goes back to boring old accounting where â in a roaring coincidence that actually turns out to be less coincidental than one might think â she finds her identity thief, which is when things begin to get way too real for comfort.
Okay, the ending doesn't bear a whole lot of real close examination. What do you want -- great literature?
Just crank up the tunes, slather on some sunscreen, pour yourself an umbrella drink, and enjoy.
Very humorous, entertaining romp. Loved it!
Falsely Arrested on your wedding day? Your fiance dumps you? Can you change your life? Savannah decides to try. A fun read!
From the back of the book: On the most special day of your life, your wedding day, the cops bust in and wrongfully arrest you at the altar for money laundering and tax evasion. The only rings you leave the church with that day are the ones made by the handcuffs on your wrists. You're soon released because you prove to the Feds that it was someone else who stole your identity...but your fiance isn't as easily convinced and hits the road. Now that everything has absolutely fallen apart you decide to:
A) Stay in Maple Rapids, Michigan, living down your notorious criminal wedding, keep your boring job, and spend your free time on the couch
B) Move to Florida to find the woman who stole your identity...and start a whole new life of adventure
C) Choose B...but get into so much trouble that you wish A was still an option
The old Savannah Taylor would have chosen anser A in a heartbeat. But her botched wedding was an awakening. So Savannah takes off to find her identity thief..and maybe the answer to all her problems..in a wild journey of love, risk, and surprises from an author renowned for creating "fun, feel-good romance."
