Book Review: One Night at the Jacaranda by Carol Cooper

Reviewer: Terry

one night at the jacarandaI was given this book in exchange for an honest review.

A fun tale of single life in London and what some will try to find someone to spend their lives with…..or for some a distraction from their boring life, or even a little research. Whichever you choose, speed dating is a great way to meet many potential dates in a short period of time!  Who wouldn’t like their first date (especially the bad ones) to be mere minutes!

This is a fun book with another twist to the hard life of dating, to be specific with this one Speed Dating! This is my first story on Speed dating, but it was well written and easy to picture how it all works. The story starts with all the main characters meeting at a speed dating event and go on to tell their stories. Sanjay, Laura, Harriet, Dan, and Karen and Geoff, telling each of their stories and how meeting each other affects their lives- all of them being from different walks of life and having far different stories.

This is a fast pace story that successful gives you a sneak peek into many different lives and how many people feel desperation when stuck in the dating games. The story opens one’s eyes to how lonely and sad many in their 30’s feel when trying to get through all of the dating woe’s, as well as how many skimp on honesty when trying to date.

This was a fun read for me and quite different from most books on reading. The author is well written and her characters are developed well enough to make it easy to relate to them and their stories. I recommend this to anyone looking for a relatively light romance story.

4 stars