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Summary: fun chick lit
Review: Samantha Washington has kept a detailed diary forever. When she travels on business or pleasure her diary comes with her. In it are her deepest secrets whether she is ripping her bosses at work like sleazy Richard or dissing her friends including saying one nameless celebrity pal is cheating on her spouse. Perhaps it is because odious Richard arrived in New York at a business meeting without warning that caused Sam to do the unthinkable. She left behind at the Carlyle her diary.In his hotel room at the Carlyle, TV producer Ben Fisher finds Sam's diary. He looks inside for an address and though it contains one he cannot stop himself from reading the contents. Since they both reside in London, he personally delivers the diary because he needs to see if Sam in person is anything like Sam the diary author. When they meet, Sam is nasty towards Ben because she fears he will use her written comments to publicly report the affair. Instead, he hangs around not to find a story as she believes, but because he remains fascinated by the writer. He ponders how to make her believe his intentions are honorable. Sam's behavior towards Ben is irritating especially since he returns her precious diary however readers will enjoy how he tears down her defenses. Ben makes the story hum as he finds he is very attracted to Sam even before he meets her and is over the top once he does though fans will wonder why since she is nasty to him. Readers will enjoy the metamorphosis of the lead female once she understands his motive is not TV exploitation, but her. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Ultimately a wonderful read
Review: What made this book irritating at first eventually was what made it hard to put down. The author, Jane Sigaloff, writes in a fashion that has you rereading to figure out whose head you're in, what the American translation is of the English you just read, and wondering what happened and whose mind just changed in the space between paragraphs. But as difficult to follow as that sounds, after a few chapters it's absolutely addictive. I liked not having absolutely everything spelled out, but seeing the result of the change of heart/plans/what have you. One minute the characters are in disaccord, the next they agree. It was definately worth the money a larger paperback like this usually costs, and I'm looking forward to finding her first book, _Name and Address Withheld_ to enjoy her writing style some more.
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