Author: Rachel Hall
Language: English
Format: ebook
Rating: 2 stars
Reading challenge: A book with a cover photo of a book
No of pages: 319
Date read: 29.10 - 31.10.2017
BLURB:
Jenny Peterson is a single, self-help junkie looking for her soul mate. But despite being an expert in self-improvement, her life still seems to be stuck in a rut. Her designer clothing rental business, even with its well-heeled Orange County clientele, is mysteriously losing money. And although it goes against every fiber in her moral makeup, the one guy she pines for happens to be her best friend’s husband. But are her fortunes about to change? A super-cute mystery guy has just recommended a new self-help book, and from the moment she opens the pages of A Better Life, her world is turned upside down in ways that not even Dr Phil could have predicted.
I'm not actually a big chick lit fan and I think this book is actually a rather good example of why I usually prefer romance novels to chick lit.
I don't particularly care for love triangles. I care even less about reading about a woman who has a dysfunctional family and a best friend with whom she doesn't get on all that well. And I care even less about a character who does nothing but whine and is in financial trouble due to her own actions such as not paying much mind to financial questions.
And while quite a few readers have stated that they really enjoyed this book and its writing style, I have to admit that I am not one of those readers. All the writing style managed was keep me not all that intrigued and interested about our heroine Jenny. Or I guess I was interested ... in hitting her with A Better Life. Hard. Several times.
Jenny seemed superficial. She was way too interested in clothing labels and "dressing well". She put down her own family and her best (only?) friend who is prettier and richer than her (her words, not mine). Luckily, it seemed that the things did get slightly better by the time I finished the book because she kind of got her relationships back in order.
The self help clues as such were actually kind of nice, even if they did seem self-explanatory and obvious. But hey, maybe I'm simply the wrong audience.
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