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Recently divorced Scarlett Smith
is looking to get back out there. She connects with an old lover and they meet
in a park where they have an altercation over the mixed signals that Scarlett
had got from the ex-lover. Cleo Hicks, a matchmaker, was willy-nilly an
audience to the whole scene. Scarlett’s day just gets worse when she discovers
Cleo and breaks her shades. Cleo buys Scarlett new shades and offers to find a
match for her. Scarlett rejects the matchmaker route but after a series of
terrible dates, reaches out to Cleo. As Cleo sets about doing her job, both
women find that the biggest impediment for both of them is their mutual
attraction – except that Cleo believes that her family has a curse – they are
gifted at finding the perfect person for others but are doomed at love
themselves.
Till about fifty-five to sixty percent, this book was
hilarious. It was flowing well. It was funny. There were laugh-worthy
situations and dialogues.
Then bam! it all went downhill for us when Cleo finally decides
to move ahead with Scarlett – just to prove to Scarlett that the curse thing is
true. There couldn’t have been a worse reason for surrendering to the attraction.
After that point, we read through it because we’d already spent all that time
on it. There was little redeeming the book or Cleo.
On the other hand, we really liked Scarlett with all her
flaws.
This book is light and fun (at least up to a point).
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