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A review by obsidian_blue
Ex-Girlfriends United by Matt Dunn
3.0
This is the second novel written by Matt Dunn about Edward Middleton and his best friend Dan.
If you have not read the first novel in the series, look away, look away.
Edward has moved on from his ex girlfriend Jane and is still doing his best to keep up with the positive changes he made in his life while attempting to get her back, see "The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook".
With Edward happily dating and feeling better about himself than he has in years, his best friend Dan is going through a dating downward spiral. No matter what Dan does he seems to be turning women off left and right. Dan eventually finds out that all of his exes have rated him on a website called, "SlateYourDate.com". Too bad for Dan that all of his exes have nothing but negative things to say about him.
Though many women (and men) out there will loathe Dan I have to say that once you get into his reasoning for why he was dumping women left and right you will find the humor in the situation. Dan is not a very bright character, but definitely has some insights into women that Edward needs to listen to since Edwards keeps treating women like they are this rare species that he has no understanding of at all.
The main reason why I gave this novel only three stars (I dithered between three and three and a half) is that I think Mr. Dunn would have had a stronger novel, with even more hilarity if this story was told from Dan's point of view. Reading the book summary for "Ex-Girlfriends United" you would think this novel was told from Dan's point of view.
Instead the novel is told from Edward's point of view and you just deal with his problems through the whole novel (problems of his own doing by the way) and you have him insecure and questioning everything that his new girlfriend says and does.Frankly if I were Dan I would have told Edward to go see a shrink since his constant indecision about everything started to drive me mad by the end of this novel.
Readers do finally get to "meet" Edward's ex, Jane. She is definitely a flesh and blood character in this novel and I could understand her anger and jealousy on how Edward moved on and got his life together after she dumped him. Besides Edward "helping" Dan here and there with how to get his exes off of Dan's backs we as readers do not get to witness any of the things that Dan does, we merely hear about them after the fact when Dan is re-telling stories to Edward.
If you have not read the first novel in the series, look away, look away.
Edward has moved on from his ex girlfriend Jane and is still doing his best to keep up with the positive changes he made in his life while attempting to get her back, see "The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook".
With Edward happily dating and feeling better about himself than he has in years, his best friend Dan is going through a dating downward spiral. No matter what Dan does he seems to be turning women off left and right. Dan eventually finds out that all of his exes have rated him on a website called, "SlateYourDate.com". Too bad for Dan that all of his exes have nothing but negative things to say about him.
Though many women (and men) out there will loathe Dan I have to say that once you get into his reasoning for why he was dumping women left and right you will find the humor in the situation. Dan is not a very bright character, but definitely has some insights into women that Edward needs to listen to since Edwards keeps treating women like they are this rare species that he has no understanding of at all.
The main reason why I gave this novel only three stars (I dithered between three and three and a half) is that I think Mr. Dunn would have had a stronger novel, with even more hilarity if this story was told from Dan's point of view. Reading the book summary for "Ex-Girlfriends United" you would think this novel was told from Dan's point of view.
Instead the novel is told from Edward's point of view and you just deal with his problems through the whole novel (problems of his own doing by the way) and you have him insecure and questioning everything that his new girlfriend says and does.Frankly if I were Dan I would have told Edward to go see a shrink since his constant indecision about everything started to drive me mad by the end of this novel.
Readers do finally get to "meet" Edward's ex, Jane. She is definitely a flesh and blood character in this novel and I could understand her anger and jealousy on how Edward moved on and got his life together after she dumped him. Besides Edward "helping" Dan here and there with how to get his exes off of Dan's backs we as readers do not get to witness any of the things that Dan does, we merely hear about them after the fact when Dan is re-telling stories to Edward.