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Sex With The Ex (Red Dress Ink)

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Senior Events Manager and Public Relations Coordinator at Posh House Lola Morton enjoys her work until she sees three of her exes sitting around together. Richard was her spouse until two years ago; Hamish was her college lover; and Jeremy was her first love. After the shock wears off, she begins to wonder if she made a mistake and lost Mr. Right, but which one.

She decides that divorcing Richard was a mistake as he must be the one. Lola begins a campaign to bring him back in her life, but he is seeing someone else. Meanwhile her boss Charlie Orbington is disappointed in her behavior as he thinks the woman he has professionally admired is being a foolish, fickle little girl because she should accept that Richard has found somebody new. Though she hates disappointing Charles, Lola feels she's the one for Richard even if her pet bunny Jean hops away from him.

This is an intriguing chick lit romance starring a fully developed lead female protagonist who colors her past lovers in a positive hue while ignoring the downside including for instance why she and Richard divorced. The story line is fun to follow as Charles scorns what Lola does, but whatever she wants she plans to get, which this time is Richard. Outside of the sherbet solution, sub-genre fans will welcome Lola's zany efforts at second chance at love with ex marks the spot.

Harriet Klausner

The writing and wit in this book is very entertaining, so if you want to read something that will hold your interest, by all means check out SEX WITH THE EX.

However, if you're looking for an intelligent character who doesn't have a fabulous wardrobe, killer job you'll never relate to, and a rabbit that humps everything around it, then look elsewhere.

The main character is a witch with a capital B. She cannot seem to figure out that her ex-husband is a coke-snorting dirt bag. Not only does she sympathize with him, but she wants him back. When he has another woman. And coke on him like a milk mustache. And no job.

To get him back for his coke habit she does something in the end that I thought was really immature and almost out of character. It was shocking and horrible, and I won't give it away, but for me the ending really ruined the book. I felt very strongly about Lola, her over-dramatic parents, and her boss who was really nicer to her than he should have been. O'Connell knows how to write characters you'd like to strangle or slap upside the head. She's got a great style, a fantastic sense of humor, but wow! Her characters can be nasty!

This book by Tyne O'Connell is about a woman, named Lola who's convinced that she should get back together with her ex husband Richard after seeing him with a 'leggy blonde' one night. So she decides to pursue him and get him back, against the wishes of her friends and boss, Charlie.
Without going into to much detail about this book, I have to say I wanted to slap Lola for being such an idiot for wanting Richard back. From what we find about about Richard, he seems like a royal coke-head jerk %$#@!%. I dont see why she wanted to be with him, but as they say 'love is blind'.

I was only able to slog through about 100 pages before returning it to the library (thank god i didn't buy it!)...the writing was ok, but the characters weren't developed or maybe I just hated them....something was definitely missing.

The sight of three of her exes turns Lola onto a path to examine her past and determine if one of them really was the One for her. Her first experiment takes her back to the arms, or at least bed, of her ex husband, a lying coke head. Even if she has to break up his current romance, she's determined to remarry the loser. Not until it's almost too late does Lola learn the truth that is in front of her face.

* There is only one character in this entire book that is not completely shallow, banal, immoral, and trite. How any woman could want a jerk like Robert is a total mystery. *

Reviewed by Amanda Killgore, Freelance Reviewer.