Julia James has made a living writing books for single women – Table for One, Spaghetti and Meatball and 101 Ways to Cheat at Solitaire – which help them to be happy with being single. Everything is going great for Julia’s career – until her credibility gets threatened. The tabloids run a story on Julia and Hollywood’s new “it” man, and now her fanbase is split down the middle, with women who feel they’ve been following a phony, and women who believe that this shows them that there really can be love for them after all. Now, Julia must try to regain her credibility while she is hiding from the paparazzi, as well as having to deal with the “it” man who followed her home and is hiding out with her.

I’ve read one of Carter’s other books (I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You), and I loved that, so decided to give this one a go too. And I’m happy I did, because I really enjoyed it. It’s quite different, but still good. It was cute, it was fluff, it was good way to spend a few hours over the weekend.

I get annoyed with TV, movies and books that tries to give me the impression that I can only be happy if I have a man in my life. While Julia does end up hooking up with the guy, and realizes during the book that if she continues in the way she’s going in life that she’ll end up like an aunt she doesn’t particularly like…. and while she does notice a huge difference in how the world treats her when she’s with a man than when she’s single, Julia comes across as a character who is perfectly contented with being single. While it is commented that Julia has a problem with commitment, it in no way comes across that she needs a man to be happy in life, which is so refreshing compared to a lot of stuff out there today. SO refreshing. It was a really nice change to read chick lit like that.