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Loading... Love: A User's Guide: A Novel of Romance with Attitude (original 2005; edition 2004)by Clare Naylor (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. What a fabulous book! I'm very partial to this sort of brit chick lit, and I must say, this is quite possibly the best I've read, since Bridget Jones's Diary. I completely related to the main character, Amy, and of course, imagined Orlando Rock as a Colin Firth-esque character. (I know, unoriginal, huh?) no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Working for Vogue, Amy spends her days dressing waif models in London’s latest apparel while fending off insults from the Gucci-garbed staff. Hardly the glamorous job she hoped it would be. But that won’t stop her from fantasizing about the sensational life she knows she’s destined for—or the prince who’s bound to redeem her from a less-than-glowing record in romance. However, beneath her dreamy exterior, Amy has a sure streak of common sense. So when the impossible happens—and her path crosses that of London’s hottest film star—she swoons with longing, expecting nothing in return. But Orlando Rock has other ideas. For Amy is just the kind of girl he’s after: smart and witty, different from the daft supermodels and vain leading ladies he’s dated before. Or is she? For with fame, fortune, and true love just around the corner, Amy’s head is spinning, her jet-fueled imagination poised for takeoff. Is her love for Orlando stronger than her lust for the limelight—or is she merely fated to be the paparazzi’s latest prey? No library descriptions found. |
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Luckily for her, her friend Lucinda is quite lovely - always able to help out in a fashion crisis, witty and understanding. And even more luckily - through Lucinda, Amy gets to meet the gorgeous up-and-coming film star Orlando Rock. Orlando is a sweet, everyday guy underneath and Amy's goofing around with him like a normal guy steals his heart. But Amy (like most of us) has a desire to show off her newest conquest and become a darling of the paparazzi - the very thing that Orlando has tried desperately to avoid. So the big question is limelight or love?
This novel is typical chicklit - lighthearted and funny, full of designer names and the doings of the rich and the famous, so we can all live vicariously in a romance with [insert your favorite film star] who just wants an ordinary life and so falls for ordinary us. I loved the scene in Conran Shop when they come up with all sorts of silly fantasy worlds in which to use random items - who hasn't done that when they were young, infatuated and high on life? And who could forget that giddy feeling which is so beautifully evoked here? And who wouldn't want to relive it?
But the rest of the novel is nothing really special. I found the narrator's asides and comments to the audience on the characters distracting and a bit too smug. And after those first few memorable encounters, the relationship between Orlando and Amy isn't really developed. I felt like they got to 'I love you' without quite enough in between. But still, it was a charming story with a charming hero, and a heroine who acted like a completely believable moron. And got over it.
Cute, fun read, but not something that demands to be kept. ( )