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The I Hate To Date Club (Harlequin Next)

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I really like "The Next Novel" books from Harlequin. The heroine or heroines are seldom 21 years old. They are mature women with some living under their belts. The I Hate to Date Club is no exception.

Five friends know that they want to get married - to have a meaningful relationship, they just don't think they are up to the dating process. They decide to form a club to support each other in their different approaches to finding an interesting man. Realizing that they will never meet the perfect man while they are sitting on the couch reading a book, they vow to get out in the world and seek their happiness.

The story is just like life....sometimes sad as Michelle deals with a recently ended marriage and Eva comes to grips as to why she can't get very interested in finding a significant other....and sometimes hilarious........giving Wendy moral support to break it off with her married boyfriend, "Rick the Prick" in a restaurant and their big getaway.

Mostly, the book is a lot of wonderful insights into finding what makes you happy, when it makes you happy and to recognize it and embrace it.

It was a quick and very uplifting read.

Elda Minger is a romance author who does what no other author of the genre can do right now, get me to buy a romance novel. Her current book out by Harliquen under there Next lable could almost be called the anti-romance romance. Five friends living in LA are trying to figure out why relationships just aren't like romance novels, fairy tales, or the movies. The answer they don't like having to date and placing themselves out there. The story besides being laugh out loud funny at times is really a tale of the five women realizing what they want out of life and going for it. I whole heartedly recommend this novel to anyone, and I am glad I made the impulse buy.

This book couldn't decide what it wanted to be when it grew up. It started out trying to be funny and a witty comment on dating in today's fast paced world, but quickly changed into a self-help book on relationships. Throw in several paragraphs about recipes and cooking and you have a mish mash with no clear direction. Also, the characters could have been fleshed out a little more. Except for Eva and Wendy, the other girls are pretty much interchangeable. I found myself not really caring what happened to any of them.