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Charley Lambert has a great job, a great apartment, a great set of friends. She’s extremely busy with her job in promotions for a pharmaceutical company and has a thing for her hot boss, who, while having an affair with a married woman for a few years, has kept her strung out a bit, thinking she might have a chance with him. But when she falls and breaks her leg and pelvis, her life is turned upside-down. It’s going to take a solid three months for her to recover, and that means a forced break from her job at a crucial time. The hot boss not only assigns Charley’s deputy at work to take over her load (which is terrible news since she’s eager to just take over Charley’s job permanently), but he tells Charley he’s going to marry the suddenly-divorced married woman.
With a lot of time on her hands and her workaholic, perfectionist habits to appease, Charley broods from bed at home. She does decide, at least, that she has time to start a business she thought she’d be great at: a service helping potential daters who don’t feel comfortable chatting online communicate with each other. First Date Aid goes well, and she has a great time writing flirty, fun emails on behalf of her clients. And her longtime friend and roommate, Sam, a womanizing aspiring actor who is charming but far too boorish and boyish to consider as a dating partner, actually steps up and helps her promote her business. Things are going fairly well considering she’s stuck in bed and her “real” job may be in danger and the man of her dreams is marrying someone else.
Things get complicated, though, when she starts to fall for a man she’s emailing on behalf of one of her clients. He’s so clever and their banter is so deliciously entertaining. And when time passes and she’s able to get back to her job, at least part-time, and the object of her new affection may not be who she thinks he is… it’s all even more complicated. Charley thought she knew what things in life (and controlling them all very neatly) made her happy and satisfied, but messy might end up making her happier than she would have imagined.
A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger is fun escapist reading, perfect for a chick-lit kind of day. I had a good time with it.
Rated: High, Profanity includes around 65 instances of moderate profanity, about 100 uses of mild language, and 100 instances of the name of Deity in vain. (Also about 85 uses of British bl- profanity.) A fair number of crude sexual references.
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