Title: Unpredictable
Author: Eileen Cook
Publisher: Self-published
Publication Date: December 28, 2012
Genres: Romance, Humor
Reviewed by: Books4Tomorrow
Source: Purchased
My star rating: 5/5
SUMMARY
From the author of Do or Di and Getting Revenge
on Lauren Wood, comes a new laugh out loud romantic comedy. Sophie Kintock
isn't crazy, she just wants her guy back. And posing as a psychic to give his
new girlfriend a face reading designed to break them up isn't going overboard,
is it?
Faking psychic powers turns out to be easy and fun, especially after a few lessons from Nick, the cute (if a bit nerdy) skeptic, who knows all the tricks of the trade. But her readings do a lot more than she could have predicted, and soon Sophie needs to figure out whether the answers lie in the stars-or in herself.
Faking psychic powers turns out to be easy and fun, especially after a few lessons from Nick, the cute (if a bit nerdy) skeptic, who knows all the tricks of the trade. But her readings do a lot more than she could have predicted, and soon Sophie needs to figure out whether the answers lie in the stars-or in herself.
REVIEW
There’s
really not that much to say about this little treasure. First of all it
reminded me very much of the main character in Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series. Coincidentally, the
main character in Unpredictable goes
by the name of Sophie Kintock. See the resemblance in their names? Like Becky Bloomwood in the Shopaholic series, Sophie
Kintock is also a very self-centred character who puts her own needs before the
needs of others, and is endearingly clueless about it all. Mishaps and bad luck
seem to follow her wherever she goes, but it attributes to the comedic value of
the story.
I loved
that the person she falls in love with at the end isn’t a typically hot guy
with a lopsided grin and gorgeous eyes (which describes every guy in just about
every YA book I’ve read in the past eighteen months), but rather an interesting
intellectual with a Clark Kent-like handsomeness (CK when he’s not in superhero
mode). For this alone I give this book a well-deserved five stars. He was more
in the background of the story, but still he won me over in the first half of
the book and I was rooting for him and Sophie to fall in love with each other. No
forced or mushy romance either which made this an utterly enjoyable read for
me.
All and
all this is a light-hearted, fun read which is bound to have you in stitches.
Despite it needing a good round of editing and someone explaining to the author
the difference between “then” and “than”, I can’t give it anything less than
five stars. Fans of Sophie Kinsella’s books will love Sophie Kintock, her vengeful
Scottish terrier, Mac, her best friend Jane – the sleep deprived mother of two
energetic kids - and Sophie’s cheating heartthrob boyfriend who is even more naïve
and oblivious than she is. Unpredictable
is great as a Summer read next to the pool.
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ABOUT the AUTHOR
Eileen Cook spent most of her teen years
wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a
writer. Eileen lives in
Vancouver with her husband and two dogs and no longer wishes to be anyone or
anywhere else.
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