This is a story about a young poor woman that meets and falls in love with a millionaire. What makes this story different is that she doesn’t just trip over the millionaire, she’s sent to spy on him for a news article. There’s love, heartache, backstabbing and loyalty in this book.
When we first meet Sally, she is frumpy, doesn’t take care of herself, barely making ends meet and stuck in a job with no advancement that she hates. Oh, and she’s a walking wrecking ball of accidents. I had a hard time in the beginning with Sally. She is so down on herself, that no one wants her and she’s ugly.
It was hard to get into the book at first due to Sally’s thoughts about herself, but about a quarter of the way in I started to see her like Paul, her first GBF. Slowly unwrapping her story and understanding why she is down on herself. Of course, this is about the same time that I found myself sobbing for most of the rest of the book. All of us have been where Sally has been and experienced things where we wonder what is wrong with us when it has nothing to do with us at all.
I was happy that the twists we all expect in ugly duckling becomes swan types of stories did not happen when we expected them or how. We feel the emotional grief that both Sally and the people around her experience. Which kept me on an emotional ride. I was happy to see when the book ended that Sally had blossomed and taken control of her life, she still didn’t lose all of her doubts and insecurity. Books that cure the heroine in just days or weeks of a lifetime of self-doubt are unrealistic. If you have few days and lots of tissues, you should try this book.
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