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How to Get a Life in Ten Dates
by Jenny L. Howe
I really enjoy Jenny Howe's contemporary romcoms featuring fat protagonists. She also has "interconnected standalone" down pat: you could pick up any of her books and not feel lost. How to Get a Life in Ten Dates is about Haleigh, whose well-meaning friends and family keep getting on her case about finding a partner.
Haleigh is also dealing with her own feelings of financial anxiety since she's piecing together a living from freelance editing and dow walking. This is all exacerbated by pressure to find a plus-one to her perfect sister's upcoming engagement party. She asks 5 of her friends and family to set her up on 2 dates each (thus, Ten Dates). The book follows her on each date, most of which are awful. But Haleigh does end up in a love triangle with her BFF Jackson and one of the people she goes on a date with...
I really loved the structure of the book (we mainly see Haleigh out on dates) and I actually loved the love triangle: I could have seen it go either way, which is not usually the case. In fact I had delightfully mixed feelings on her ultimate decision. I'm glad she got her HEA, but I also think this is a good example of how there might not be just one soulmate out there for each person: she chose who was right for her in the moment, but if he hadn't been an option, she probably would have been happy with the other guy.
This objective review is based on a complimentary copy of the novel.
Haleigh is also dealing with her own feelings of financial anxiety since she's piecing together a living from freelance editing and dow walking. This is all exacerbated by pressure to find a plus-one to her perfect sister's upcoming engagement party. She asks 5 of her friends and family to set her up on 2 dates each (thus, Ten Dates). The book follows her on each date, most of which are awful. But Haleigh does end up in a love triangle with her BFF Jackson and one of the people she goes on a date with...
I really loved the structure of the book (we mainly see Haleigh out on dates) and I actually loved the love triangle: I could have seen it go either way, which is not usually the case. In fact I had delightfully mixed feelings on her ultimate decision. I'm glad she got her HEA, but I also think this is a good example of how there might not be just one soulmate out there for each person: she chose who was right for her in the moment, but if he hadn't been an option, she probably would have been happy with the other guy.
This objective review is based on a complimentary copy of the novel.