"When a catastrophe of a blind date lands corporate lawyer Alaina Montgomery and free-spirited Dylan Harrison in jail, the two aren’t exactly off to a flying start, romance-wise. But when they decide to pose as a couple to stop their meddlesome friends, they find that they make a pretty good team." And how many times has this same cloned story been retreaded now? Barf. Hoag, Hoag, it's deranged! Where the leer and the can't elope roam....
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Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
No wonder the Kirkus circus liked htis story: it's totally demeaning to women. It makes sense for them to do that in a story that is solely about how useless women are until and unless they have a man to make their lives worth anything. "27-year-old Jazzy and her friends are on the hunt for expat husbands in the dazzling city of Singapore - follow their search for love." Why? Why do I care? Especially since the novel has nothing whatsoever to do with actual love and seems much more interested in being a voyeur of kinky sex in a very restrictive society. Are these women so worthless, their lives so empty, that 'love' is the only thing that lends them any value? If that's the case, they're not worthy of a relationship to begin with, because they have absolutely nothing to contribute to one. Yawn.
