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Missed Connections

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This one was an interesting read. Sarah was torn between two men and it was a trip just reading about her trying to navigate through that confusion. This is a great summer read or for when you don't want a lot of deep, angsty drama.
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I just couldn't connect to the heroine. I loved Jack, but not enough to make me love the book.
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I admit, I kinda liked this book. There were things about it that I thought would make me not like it and despite them, or maybe because of them, I liked it anyway. It's firmly in the New Adult subgenre and while there are some books I have enjoyed, I worry when I start one if the characters are going to drive me crazy. Sarah and Jack did not make me want to kill them. Instead, I was rooting for Jack the whole way.

The book is told from Sarah's POV and her travails with life, work, and love are amusing - if also sometimes wildly annoying. Sarah is young, pretty, unemployed, and has a gay male best friend. Said best friend has a super hot twin brother who is most definitely not gay - Jack. Jack is round the bend crazy for Sarah. That's no spoiler; it's painfully obvious from the start. But Sarah has Jack in the manwhore category and isn't interested. What's a lovesick millionaire to do? Try to capture her attention a different way, of course! So Jack has a multi-pronged attack plan - be nice to Sarah, have sex with Sarah, and try to connect with Sarah on an emotional level.

Sarah's got issues; maybe Jack can help her with them. He offers her a job, but she turns him down. Now she's working at a New Age spa with some - in my opinion - really messed up people. The owners wouldn't know how to handle personnel issues if they had the way to do it smacked into their foreheads. One of the coworkers is the biggest bitch ever and does everything she can to get Sarah fired. One of the coworkers is who Sarah thinks is her secret friend. 

I thought the book was very funny, sweetly loving, and deeply angsty, by turns. There's plenty of mistaken impressions and crazy moments, but the relationships between Sarah and Jack, Sarah and Pete, and Sarah and Blake are really the focus emotionally. There's plenty of smexy times too. But for me, the outing of her secret admirer was fantastic and easily the best part of the book!
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