2.5 Stars: "Love Rehab" by Jo Piazza
Love Rehab is modern romance novel about a woman struggling with her 'addiction to love'. She starts Love Addicts Anonymous with the hope to break the cycle of instantly picturing a life together whenever she meets a man, without stopping to consider whether they truly match one another.
Goodreads.com description: Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accounts—you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love.
Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance.
But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone.
If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she saves herself in the process.
Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.
Love Rehab is modern romance novel about a woman struggling with her 'addiction to love'. She starts Love Addicts Anonymous with the hope to break the cycle of instantly picturing a life together whenever she meets a man, without stopping to consider whether they truly match one another.
Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance.
But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone.
If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she saves herself in the process.
Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.
Love Rehab was not just an easy read, it was funny. It actually made me laugh out loud in more than one occasion, and for that I'm grateful. I was interested in the mindset of these women having witnessed the behaviour in some of my girlfriends, but without having the possibility to reach into their heads and watch their thought process develop.
I enjoyed the anecdotes described in the book as well as the various characters who were part of it. While the book is for adults I think it would be safe for teens to enjoy it as well.
It makes mention of a great deal of pop culture references and many times I didn't know what they were talking about but it manages to explain it pretty well. I imagine people that are very familiar with the Reality-TV genre will skip over the description and miss some hilarious comparisons.
I learned from this book that I am very proud (or at least compared to the protagonists). I will admit to some Facebook snooping of my own, but never have I reached he hilarious extremes these women reached.
There isn't much to say about the plot. It is unique, entertaining and I felt that should find out what happened to these women that had hunkered together and tried to mend one another. I felt like the author should have gone a bit more into each of the characters' stories. Perhaps explaining more about their progress and checking in with the principal protagonist from time to time.
Sophie was unique in her own way. She was kind, but could act out impulsively when she felt hurt. Her personality felt very real, and while she herself can see the change that had taken place in her thought regarding relationships, I felt like I had skipped pages and had missed this progressive change. One chapter she was obsessing, the next one she was almost cured and capable of restraining herself. Perhaps a more gradual change would have been more credible.
I would recommend this title to anyone who wanted something light and funny to read in a very short time.
