Down with Love

Laws of Attraction

By: Kate Meader

Narrated by: Pippa Jayne, Jason Clarke

If you ever get married, remember my name: Max Henderson. In my line of work, you acquire a certain perspective on supposedly everlasting unions....

1. Pre-nups are your friend.
2. The person you married is not the person you’re divorcing.
3. And I hope you didn’t spend much on the wedding because that was one helluva waste of hard-earned cash, wasn’t it?

But some guys are willing to take a chance. Like my brother, who thinks he’s going to ride off into the sunset with the woman of his dreams in a haze of glitter on unicorns. And the wedding planner - the green-eyed beauty who makes a living convincing suckers to shell out thousands of dollars on centerpieces - is raking it in on this matrimonial monstrosity.

The thing is, Charlie Love is not unlike me. We’re both cogs in the wedding-industrial complex. As the best man, I know her game - and I can play it better than her. But after one scorching, unexpected kiss, I’m thinking I might just want to get played.

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Decent, but a little bland.

I didn’t hate this, but it fell short story wise. I just couldn’t connect with the characters despite pretty good narration.

Jason Clarke was great and Pippa Jayne was good. I felt Pippa has a few inconsistent spots, but otherwise I can hear her as Charlie.

I just felt like it could have been a little more.

Trite and predictable.

Big chunks of the story were soliloquies repeating the ideals and realities of love, rather than any type of character development. It was like reading the Ayn Rand of beach romance novels. Plus, I hate it went women are referred to- and refer to themselves- as girls. Once or twice, fine. But every paragraph, and it’s a little demeaning.

Light but meaningful

Liked that it was very light, but that there was a bit of exploration into what marriage means to different people, that's it's not just all day sunshine but takes work.

Jumped quickly

I love the premise of the book; however it appeared to jump really quick between chapters. The transitions were also jerky (ie it jumped from the brothers talking in James’ room to Max giving his best man speech) with no mention of the ceremony. Overall, the story is hot and done with great detail, it probably could have been longer if stories went into more detail and the transitions were done more thoroughly. Another example is when Max tells Charlie that his mom wants to talk to her, there seems to be such emphasis on it then it jumps to a completely different scene. Also, why is there no mention of why their mom has a British accent but they don’t? Overall, nice story though.

Bana... " Like the opposite attraction"

Good story concept. Two opposite coming together fighting all the way. The dog was a nice distraction and a surprise. Seemed to drag a little. All over good lessen.