Title: Click: An Online Love Story
Author: Lisa Becker
Genre: Chick Lit (Adult)
Fast approaching her 30th birthday and finding herself not married, not dating, and without even a prospect or a house full of cats, Renee Greene, the heroine of Click: An Online Love Story, reluctantly joins her best guy pal on a journey to find love online in Los Angeles. The story unfolds through a series of emails between Renee and her best friends (anal-compulsive Mark, the overly-judgmental Ashley and the over-sexed Shelley) as well as the gentlemen suitors she meets online. From the guy who starts every story with “My buddies and I were out drinking one night,” to the egotistical “B” celebrity looking for someone to stroke his ego, Renee endures her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates. Fraught with BCC’s, FWD’s and inadvertent Reply to All’s, readers will root for Renee to “click” with the right man
Click is a novel comprised entirely of e-mails to and from Renee as she embarks upon the decision to take her future relationships in hand and find Mr. Right through online dating. While I was a bit hesitant regarding the format at first, Lisa quickly drew me in by establishing different e-mail “voices” for each character early on.
We’ve all been on terrible dates before, but some of Renee’s really take the cake. The situations that she wound up in were hilarious, made even funnier by the rehashing through e-mails to her friends the next day. I loved the snark between a few of Renee’s friends: Shelley and Ashley in particular. And the e-mails after the Blue party that Lisa mentioned in her interview yesterday absolutely killed me!
My one complaint would be that there were specific jokes that were repeated almost word-for-word. The first time that I read them I laughed, but the second time it just felt repetitive.
Other than that, Click was a great novel and the good news is that there is a sequel in the works. Just head over to the Facebook fan page and once it reaches 200 likes, Lisa will begin releasing some info about it.
If you like chick-lit and technology, give Click a read! And if you have an e-reader, enter the giveaway for a copy of the novel today!
