But it still beat the alternative, eight more days hibernating in her empty apartment feeling sorry for herself. Touring alone, dining alone, and worst of all, having to explain to the resort’s thirty other guests why she was staying in the bridal suite alone-Lizzie was dreading it. But that was before she knew she’d be honeymooning sans groom. When Lizzie Mancini booked her honeymoon to the secluded Blue Bay Beach Resort on the small Caribbean island of Camus Caye she thought it would be relaxing to spend the week at an isolated couples-only retreat. Like being accused of killing your fake husband in a third world country where you can't speak the language, for example. All.There are worse things in life than getting dumped at the altar. I read a beta copy prior to release and can’t evaluate in this area. Some adult language and mild sexual situations. I’ve read each of Orsoff’s books, and this is the best yet. Each time I thought I saw where it was going, she would throw a curveball I didn’t anticipate. Orsoff takes the story in some directions I’d never guessed.
Throw in an ambitious, Mama’s-boy fiancé with his control-freak mother, add a best friend, who happens to be a guy, and the story can’t help but be funny. The other characters are idiosyncratic, from her co-workers, who provide a perfect foil for Allie, to her stuck-in-the-sixties Mom, whose example taught Allie what she didn’t want to become. The main character, Allie, is slightly uptight (what would you expect from an accountant?), yet very likeable. The basic story of Disengaged is so real as to be a cliché – doesn’t every person get cold feet at some point during their engagement? But how the story plays out is anything but clichéd. My preference is for stories that feel realistic and, even more important, characters who make me laugh. The definition of the chick-lit genre is broad enough that you’re never sure exactly what you’re going to get and, unlike the romance genre, you're never sure how it is going to end.
For more, visit the author’s website.Īllie Zenet is a thirty-something accountant who is thrilled when her boyfriend proposes, because getting married and starting a family is something she just assumed she would do some day. Orsoff has three other books, Honeymoon for One, Romantically Challenged, and How I Learned to Love the Walrus. Kindle US: YES UK: YES Nook: YES Smashwords: YES Paper: NOĬlick on a YES above to go to appropriate page in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Smashwords storeĪn entertainment lawyer and movie buff, Beth Orsoff lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a movie studio archivist and co-author of a book about the history of the MGM studios.
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