From Booklist
Aspiring travel-writer Jadie Peregrine is getting nowhere behind her desk at a Web design company. Hoping to jump-start her career and her love life, she taps into her savings and unused vacation time and convinces her best friend, Tate, to head to Europe with her. As the girls explore art museums and ruins, Jadie quizzes the natives on the local dating scene. The girls even find some romance of their own: Jadie is smitten with a handsome Iowan, and Tate falls for an adventuresome Kiwi. As the girls learn about love and the world, so does the reader. Alan peppers the novel with descriptions of some of Europe's greatest sites--the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark's Square, and the Lion's Gate--as well as with descriptions of dating and marriage customs around the world. Part travel guide, part love story, this book will appeal to hopeless romantics and travel hounds alike.

I finished this one last night in bed. I'd been reading it for a while (more than a week) which tends to be a long time for me with chick lit, but I blame it more on preggo brain than on the book itself. It reads really easily, a combo of chick lit and travel writing, but leans much more heavily on the chick lit part. Often I was wishing for more of the travel writing part! I also found it hard to read about Justin. Something about that character just didn't feel right, not genuine perhaps. My stomach was waiting for any moment when he would "turn" - stealing her stuff, breaking her heart, show a really nasty side. He was written pretty flatly and I guess I was looking for a sinister side to round him out a bit. *sigh* I wasn't quite satisfied with his exit either. It didn't seem to keep with the character nor did it "reveal" a hidden side to him. It just felt fake.

Overall, though, it was a light and easy read. I liked Tate and her spunk, more than I liked the main character. The little insights on love from the European women were interesting too.

I've mailed this one to ladiibbug as part of the Chick Lit/Contemporary Romance Swap on Book Obsessed. Enjoy!

3/21/07 Arrived today from Ri for Contemporary Romance/Chick lit swappie on www.bookobsessed.com. Thanks, looks like a good read - TBR

5/4/07 I agree with Ri's comments. This was an OK read, nothing super special. I enjoyed the travel section more than the romance.

Moving on to CO in Paperback Swap trade - TRAVELING

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