Amazon.co.uk Review
With undertones of a Shakespearean love-romp, love's true course gets a distinctly bumpy ride in this, oddly named, fifth novel from Jill Mansell. While the action centres around the court (Bristol-based mansion) of ex-rock star and former alcoholic, Jaz Dreyfuss, his ex-wives, current bubble-head and a selection of their relatives and friends, the lead role and heroine of our tale is taken by feisty, wise-cracking, ex-wife number two, estate agent extraordinaire, Suzy. Suzy's mother, recently departed for designer-heaven (as in the sky, not Bond Street), has left Suzy and her siblings to discover a skeleton (with skin and blood still attached) leaping out of the family cupboard.

While the summer bookshelves groan with an ever-growing mountain of books charting modern girl¹s search for "true lurrve", Good At Games is a well-executed example of its genre, with a bunch of characters you can actually care what happens to and a plot that, although you know exactly where it's going, makes you want to keep reading until the very last word. --Carey Green

RELEASE NOTES:

Meetup release!

Nabbed at meetup last night. I like chick lit & I like Jill Mansell. Thanks, servalan.

Very good. I knew Jill wouldn't let me down, she's one of the best in this genre. There was an annoying character or two but most of them were likeable, I never got sick of the heroine, Suzy Curtis or her rock-star ex. I would have liked to see Harry get his, though.

Back blurb:
Suzy Curtis falls in love with Harry Fitzallan the moment she shows him her husband's sperm sample. Actually, it isn't her husband's, because she isn't married. It isn't a sperm sample either, it's a carton containing the dregs of her milkshake. (But when you're desperate to escape a speeding charge you just have to improvise, don't you?) Oh, and it isn't really love at first sight. Still, it's undeniably a healthy case of lust. Suzy is the girl with everything - dream job, dysfunctional family, red Rolls-Royce and ravishing rock-star ex. The she meets Harry - and his deeply sceptical brother Leo - and before long finds herself with a whole lot more. Warm, funny and deliciously romantic.

Couldn't get into it. Didn't like the characters or the plot. Perservered for about a third of the book, but couldn't keep going. Just not my style of book unfortunately.

Back with me. I'll stick in the chick-lit bookbag when it arrives.

RELEASE NOTES:

Into the bag for someone else to enjoy.

Taken out of Chic Lit Book bag - as couldn't fit it in when I put my replacement books in.

About to read. Found in shopping centre where work

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