Things To Do review for Gotta Write Network
Things To DoBy Nell Dixon
Romantic Comedy/Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 1-59998-136-X
Novel, 311 pages
August 2006
Samhain Publishing
Emma Morgan is an ordinary girl going about her life and conveniently forgetting she is married. She had been married to a man she worked and played with briefly in Antigua and it had nothing to do with her daily life back home in England. Or at least she had stuffed the memories away and merrily gone on with her life. Unfortunately, life has a way with catching up with you and Emma's "husband" came back to claim her, catapulting her into a whirlwind life that is a bit more than she is expecting.
Suddenly Emma is faced with her not-so-secret husband and his "friends," a dog-napper, her sister's cheating fiancé, her female best-friend's possibly cheating husband, and, to top it all off, her mother is dating her boss. Life is not so humdrum anymore. Add to that some gangsters, her male best-friend becoming the man of her dreams and Emma isn't sure what she wants or where she is going, or frankly, if she'll make it there safely.
Things to Do by Nell Dixon is a fun chick-lit style romance with a suspenseful twist. I loved the way she took the chick lit tone and managed to make it at once thrilling and funny. Her heroine Emma is a bit daft, and you kind of wonder how she doesn't clue in more to her suddenly attentive husband and his secretive ways, but then again sometimes love is blind and lust even more so. She also doesn't see the best friend who's always been there, and her contemplation that he is in love with her sister is all wrong. Again, I think this can be so accurate as we all see ourselves in a certain light and often we don't think as highly of ourselves as we do others. I think this is especially true with dynamics like this heroine's family has.
With all of the twists and turns you would think it would be hard to keep track of who's who and what's what but it isn't. Ms. Dixon has done a good job at making it all seem effortless and the whole storied played brilliantly as a filmstrip in my head. This book combined two of my favourite types of reading - romantic suspense and chick lit. Well done Ms. Dixon!
I give this story 5 Guylian chocolates out of 5
Labels: Rating 5
posted by Michelle @ 10:27 p.m.
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