Reviewer: Samantha
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst, and Evan’s boss fires him with an email. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse. Fortunately, Evan meets someone whose legendary disasters with females eclipse even his own.
To reverse their fortunes, they recruit their friends into a group of five guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and adventure. With musings about life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential New York story about the search for happiness follows five men on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.
Review:
I was interested in reading this book because it’s nice to read from the male perspective every once in a while, since the books I tend to go for are all female POV. It sounds like standard chick lit – losing a job and significant other – but lad lit, if you will. There were parts that I enjoyed and others I didn’t so much. The book was funny at times, had me laughing out loud a few times, and again – I like reading from the male POV for a change of pace. But the book got quite long and I wasn’t really sure where it was going in the end – there didn’t seem to be the standard intro, peak, conflict, resolution, etc. type of storyline, and that threw me off a bit. It was an okay book, just ended up not being my taste.
