Synopsis
Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their honeymoon that he's not sexually attracted to her. Now, 14 months after, Holly's marriage is in the toilet, along with her self-esteem. Determined to start over, she moves to San Francisco, where she must navigate the landmines of dating in the big city. In the shadow of the Golden Gate and amid a population of wacky Bay Area eccentrics, Holly will discover that nice girls don't always finish last. In fact, they sometimes end up with everything they'd ever wanted.
Library Journal
When Californian Holly Bishop marries her Prince Charming in a fairy-tale wedding, she expects to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, the happiness ends with the start of the honeymoon, when her husband admits he doesn't find her sexually attractive, and 14 months later, she divorces him. Determined to start anew, she moves from small-time Fresno to San Francisco to forge a career as an event planner but isn't confident enough to make it work. Still desperate to know where her marriage went wrong and with a nasty boss, no close friends, and a succession of bad dates, she finds life unbearable until she meets a newspaper editor who helps her believe in herself. When a high-profile project of hers is sabotaged and she loses her job, she at last rises to the challenge and sets her life in order. A tighter plot and more scrupulous editing might have made this story a winner. As is, it's typical chick-lit fare from the author of several Harlequin romances (e.g., Marco's Pride). Not bad, but an optional purchase for public libraries.-Rebecca Vnuk, River Forest P.L., IL Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.