Reviewed by: BigAl
Genre: Chick- Lit
Approximate word count: 50-55,000 words
Availability
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Author:
“Lisa
Becker had endured her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates, many of
which inspired Click: An Online Love
Story. She is now happily married to a wonderful man she met online and
lives in Manhattan Beach [California] with him and their two daughters.”
Description:
“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.”
Appraisal:
Click has a couple things in its premise
that are guaranteed to grab my attention and, if done right, suck me into the
story. One of those is building the story around computers in almost any way,
but especially how our interactions are different with each other because of
computer technology. This book does that in two ways, with computer dating and
being made up entirely of emails between the protagonist, Renee, and her best
friends. The last might spook lovers of dialogue or the flipside, haters of
extended narration (and I’d put myself in the last group), but Becker managed
to not trip any of my triggers in this regard. That she managed to slip in this
joke that appealed to both my computer-geek and language-nerd sides was also a
mark in the book’s favor:
I’m not certain I want to be with a
man that even knows what a UNIX system is. But, I guess UNIX is better than Eunuchs.
Ha! Ha! Okay, obviously this situation is making me a bit uncomfortable and as
a result I’ve resorted to homonym humor.
Renee’s
experience reminded me of Beth Orsoff’s book, Romantically Challenged, which is one of my favorite chick-lit
books, in that she had to date a lot of frogs before she found a potential
prince. And this was the second big attention grabber for me. As with Orsoff’s
book, it gave me a chance to compare myself to the frogs and usually (okay,
sometimes) come out okay in the comparison. But for the main target audience
(which I’m not), you might find Renee’s experiences familiar and everyone will
find them funny. I found that once I started reading this book I had a hard
time putting it down and although it ties the story up nicely at the end, I
wanted to know more about what happened to the characters afterward. Luckily,
the sequel Double Click was queued up
on my Kindle, so I was able to jump right in.
FYI:
Limited
adult language and situations.
Format/Typo Issues:
No
significant issues
Rating: ***** Five stars
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