Book Review: Chat Love by Justine Faeth

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Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by the author, Justine Faeth, for an honest review.

Genre: Romance/Comedy/Adult

Plot: City girl Lucia is having trouble finding a man. With a few nudges from her friends, she decides to try out Chat Love, an online dating service for New Yorkers. Hilarity ensues with one disastrous date after another…where do these men come from? Mars? Certainly not Manhattan! She finally meets someone from work who is almost perfect, but decides to move on as he’s still seeing other women. She keeps in contact with a man named Jack on the Chat Love site. Could he be the one? What about her love interest at work? Just like the lovable cast of characters from Sex and the City, Lucia is Carrie, a stylish woman who has found her “Mr. Big” but can’t seem to get him to commit. Danni is Samantha, who loves to have fun and is wild and promiscuous. Autumn is Charlotte, desperate to meet the right man and settle down. Skyler is Miranda, level-headed and quick to offer advice. Will these ladies ever find love? Will Lucia find her man? Chat Love will give you something to talk about!

Opinion: Well here we are my darlings, a book that we can all relate to: meeting countless idiots on the way to find your ONE TWU WUV. Is it a Prince Charming or a Prince Toad?!? *Sigh*…cue the cringing and face palming ladies, because the relatable embarrassment and horrible memories are about to ensue.

With the pressures from her family to get married and start having children, Lucia finds that she is almost twenty-eight with no future for a decent relationship on the horizon. With so many failed relationships in her past, Lucia finds it more and more difficult to meet a great guy outside of a bar or club. So with much persuading from her friends, she decides to join an online dating site called Chat Love. As Lucia starts going on dates, she finds herself being on more disastrous dates than positive ones. As Lucia yearns to find love, it doesn’t help that her younger sister is newly married and has just announced that she is pregnant with her first child. Now her parents are pushing Lucia more than ever to find love, but she just can’t seem to find her perfect man. To make matters even more complicated, her arrogant and promiscuous co-worker Jackson starts acting flirty towards her.

This was a very welcome and nice change from the books I normally read. This story was something truly relatable and amusing, and I think most women will find one or two things that mirror their own experiences with men. Lucia is a career driven young woman, who like most of us, have just had bad luck with men.  As she starts to near turning thirty, she starts to worry more and more about finding someone to settle down with. Lucia is from a very large and loud Italian family, so of course her parents are constantly questioning her about who she is dating and when she is going to pop out some children. Thankfully for me, I have never had to go through that with my family. I can’t even IMAGINE how irritating that would be!

The main characters that surround Lucia are fun and definitely have their own big personalities. I loved Lucias male friends that were the epitome of what most guys around me are like. They are crude but hilarious, and constantly finding a new woman to take home with them. I enjoyed Lucia and Jackson the most. I think their characters were the most relatable and down-to-earth, even though Jackson was a COMPLETE pig at the beginning of this story. I think it is fairly obvious how this story is going to end, so we might as well draw attention to it yes? Yes. Jackson and Lucia have that typical relationship where there is an obvious physical attraction, but Jackson is a player and is known for getting with A LOT of women. We follow Lucia as she dates different men, while also figuring out what is happening between her and Jackson. It’s the typical “good girl wants to fix the bad boy” story. Look, I’ve been there. I wish that was actually possible…but whatever 😉

Overall, I really liked this read. It took me a few chapters to get into it, but once I did I just wanted to keep reading and reading. It’s a quick and easy read and it’s exciting to see what kind of crazy encounter Lucia will have next. Since I have never seen Sex and the City, I unfortunately can’t really compare this book to the show. I am thinking of shooting this story over to one of my girlfriends who I know is OBSESSED with the show and have been looking for something good to read. I bet she will just love it!