With I’ve Got Your Number, Sophie Kinsella has done it again…a delightful modern-day love story that is so fun it’s a guilty pleasure. The perfect summer confection. I laughed and eagerly turned the pages to see what kind of situation our heroine, Poppy, would get herself into next. Her earnest, wide-eyed excitement over her engagement to Magnus (so British, don’t you love it?) was endearing. Magnus is quite a catch. He’s a dashing and debonair professor at La-Tee-Da University, who comes from a long line of intellectuals. Poppy can’t believe her luck or the gorgeous emerald family heirloom ring he’s given her. But after a whirlwind engagement and only ten days till the wedding, there are some tiny, tiny red flags. I just knew things weren’t going to go smoothly for her.
The book opens with Poppy losing the ring…in a typical convoluted, far-out there, yet totally plausible way that only Kinsella can dream up. Poppy is afraid to tell her fiancé, because it was just so careless. There’s also the small matter that Magnus’s family doesn’t seem particularly excited about the wedding. Poppy doesn’t want to rock the boat and prove to his family that she’s just a silly, dimwitted girl, as Poppy believes they perceive her. Poppy has some self-esteem issues, as well as some abandonment issues, because she lost both her parents in a car accident.
In another so-crazy-you-can’t-believe-it twist, which I know may drive some readers crazy…but it’s a means to an end, so I suggest just going with it…Poppy’s phone is stolen. She miraculously finds another one in the trash bin, which she decides to “borrow,” claiming finders-keepers, rather than taking the time to go get another phone. Then of course, she gives out the new number to everyone and anyone, as a contact for her lost ring.
The mobile turns out to belong to the PA of yet another dashing man, Sam Roxton. However, the PA quit her job and her final act was trashing the phone, quite literally. With-in minutes of finding the phone, Sam is calling it constantly, which perhaps should have been a sign for Poppy to toss it back in the bin. Poppy, comically and uniquely manages to save a big deal for Sam, and then informs him that he owes her, and pleads with him to let her keep the phone, until she finds her ring. Sam begrudgingly agrees, but only until her ring is found.
Over the course of the next few days, Poppy gets to know Sam, both by texting him (she ends up acting as his defacto PA) and by reading basically all his e-mails (even the personal ones), which she can do, since all his e-mails seem to go through his PA. She totally snoops.
Predictably, Poppy and Sam are opposites. She says (or writes) too much and is big on “lol,” “xoxoxo,” and lots of “s”. Sam is all business, direct and to the point, “Yes,” “No.” Poppy’s attempts to change the way he communicates with his colleagues gets her, and there for him, into all kinds of trouble. Then there’s also the fact that she’s gotten a few cryptic, anonymous messages that appear to be nothing, but in fact end up being HUGE deals. Before you know it, Poppy is totally wrapped up in all the corporate intrigue at his company. Sam can’t save his mentor or the company without Poppy’s help.
The more time that Poppy and Sam spend together, instead of texting, they realize they have a lot more in common, than they realize. Fundamental things. Things that define a person, things only they can understand. Problem is they don’t communicate in the same way. Of course, Poppy begins to develop feelings for Sam, whom she’s not sure would be paying any attention to her, if not for the all corporate espionage. We can’t forget about Magnus, either.
Poppy is a great character, with the obvious exceptions of stealing a phone, lying about her ring, and secretly having a relationship with another man, albeit mostly by text. I honestly couldn’t hold any of these things against her. Seriously. She was sweet, smart, funny, very kind and believed in the good in everyone. She’s also kind of alone in the world. In the end, I just wanted Poppy to have her happy ending.
The texting angle, and our total dependence on “smart phones” was very timely and it really worked. I am probably one generation removed from texters, but perhaps there is hope for our fast fingered friends, that they do actually communicate and get to know one another….kind of a throwback to the letter writing of days past. There was one particularly romantic text exchange between Poppy and one of her suitors, which actually made my heart flutter.
The ending was awesome, totally made you want to stand up and cheer! Oh, and the ring is eventually found, and has quite a little story itself. I must say, everything was connected and resolved at the end of the story, tied neatly in a bow. It was masterful. This book would be a perfect romantic comedy for the big screen. I’m thinking Colin Firth, Hugh Dancy and Emily Blunt.
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Another Kinsella hit!
In one afternoon Poppy's perfect life is up in flames. If losing her priceless family heirloom engagement ring during a fire drill wasn't bad enough, Poppy gets robbed while calling for help and her phone is stolen. As luck may have it she comes across a phone discarded in the trash of her hotel's lobby. Poppy leaves her "new" number with the hotel in case someone finds her ring but when the phone's owner contacts her, he wants his phone back, now. Sam's PA quit dramatically and had thrown away the company phone as her final mic drop. All of his important emails and texts get forwarded to this phone and now some strange girl is begging to keep it for a few days. Sam acquiesces and the two are now tethered together by technology until the missing emerald is found. Now on top of wedding planning and juggling her fiancé's family she is now managing Sam's life and getting herself tangled up in drama she never anticipated. My only problem with "I've Got Your Number" is that turning the last page meant that I am growing ever closer to finishing all of Sophie Kinsella's back titles. To say I loved the characters in this book would be an understatement. I would be the first in line to buy the sequel of this book. As always, another hit from Kinsella to add to your TBR.
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A great, funny and swoonworthy read!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2019