Sex with the Ex by Tyne O'Connell
Chick Lit Book is Well Written and Entertaining
While working at a party at the Posh House one evening, Lola observes two of her ex-boyfriends chatting with her ex-husband and is immediately disturbed. It should be against the rules for exes to speak and become friends, she believes.
Quickly, however, her disgust turns to lust when she realizes that all three men are truly happy without her. And when she sees Richard, her ex-husband, leave the club with the woman Lola refers to as the Leggy Blond, it's more than Lola can handle.
Plan to Win Him Back
Lola quickly crafts a plan and spends the rest of the novel convincing herself that she wants Richard back, doing everything she can to step between her ex and the Leggy Blond. The problem is, the further Lola falls into the mess, the more she justifies and makes excuses for Richard.
And when Lola's boss, Charlie, lets her in on a secret about her ex-husband, her entire demeanor changes. Suddenly, she no longer wants to marry Richard as much as she wants to kill him.
O'Connell's Work
Lola's antics and inner monologue is so characteristic of a woman in love and a woman burned that it would be easy for any female reader to relate to her emotions. Relating to her life is a different story, as Lola is a glamorous PR woman who rubs shoulders each night with London's elite, spending all of her free time with her friends in the bar and sleeping during the day. The inability to relate to her life is one thing that makes Lola so endearing, though, as many women could only dream of being in her shoes with the perfect job.
Adding to the perfect job, throw in a pet rabbit that Lola treats as a person, three awesomely supportive friends, wildly passionate parents, and an incredibly rich, sexy boss, and O'Connell has come up with a recipe for the epitome of chick escape reading.
Foreshadowing
And in spite of the flowing prose and the easy reading, O'Connell has created a back story with her invention of Henrietta Posche, the namesake of the club where Lola works. In another era, Posche lived in the building that houses the current day Posh House, sneaking her lover up a back stairwell frequently. O'Connell begins each chapter with a segment from a letter or a book about Posche's life. As the segments unfold, the reader realizes that Posche's love situation closely resembles Lola's, and the segments begin a type of foreshadowing for the story.
As the foreshadowing becomes more apparent, the story becomes slightly more predictable, but O'Connell has made up for the predictability through her colorful and well-developed main characters and hilariously-entertaining supporting roles. Nearly every character in the book is written to perfection, allowing the reader to jump inside the novel, visualizing and following Lola on her path to figure out what she really wants.
Sex with the Ex is a wonderful story that any chick lit fan will enjoy.
Sex with the Ex was published in 2005 by Red Dress Ink. ISBN: 0-373-89536-4
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