Saturday 1 May 2021

Juliette and the Monday ManDates by Becky Doughty

 I loved this book.  Just thinking about it brings a smile to my face.


The blurb says

Juliette is perfectly content with her quiet nights at home alone, especially when they include Chinese takeout and sappy RomComs.

But her sisters think she’s teetering on the brink of spinsterhood. So they've come up with an intervention plan: weekly blind dates until their Jules finds her knight in shining armor… or until they run out of single guy friends.

They’re calling it The Monday ManDates.

Survival skills kicking in, Juliette secretly names each new Monday man. There’s TheraPaul, Frisky Frank, and TAZ the Rock Star, for starters. Then there’s the Officer Manly Man, the policeman with a penchant for pulling Juliette over when she’s at her very worst.

With a lineup like that, positively identifying her happily-ever-after seems like a long shot.

Then again, maybe, just maybe, she’s looking for love in all the wrong places.


This book is really funny.  Juliette is quirky and down-to-earth, and shows life as it is. She is messy, if something could go wrong, it would.  Her sisters think they know what's best for her, so decide to set her up with their friends.  Meanwhile, she keeps getting into trouble with the law.

This is chick lit at its best.  There is some Christianity and church-going thrown in, which was a nice surprise for me, but I doubt it would put off someone from enjoying the book who wasn't Christian.

I'm still trying not to buy more books atm, but have added the rest of the series to my wishlist.


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