4 Smooches
Synopsis
Life can suck…
When reality becomes overwhelming, seeking comfort in fictional fantasies keeps hope alive. And while this escape may be a little delusional, it’s also therapeutic.
Sharing secrets is daunting, but virtual friends don’t often judge and they are always ready to share a glass of wine…or three…while typing out life’s latest endeavors.
Brooke believes obstacles only add to romance, not detract. Rachael longs for a more intense relationship, or so she thinks. Lizzie misses the excitement in her life, but sometimes new situations find you when you’re not even looking. And Jess believes a tiger can change his stripes. It can’t.
Bound by a shared passion for blogging about happily ever afters, these four young women use keyboard therapy to work through their expectations, anxieties, and inadequacies, all with the hopes of achieving the perfection found in romance novels.
Completely blinded by what they think life should be, they navigate their unique paths in search of what they envision is right. But when reality taunts them with persistent curve balls, will they be strong enough to choose wisely? Or will their happy endings escape them?
Review
For an avid reader and blogger this book was a fun breath of air! The book follows the lives of 4 online book blogging friends and shows us the contrast to how we present ourselves online versus the reality of real life. I myself have several online book loving friends I talk to daily and the nature of the girls fun conversations in the book was so similar to my own conversations. These girls clearly love and care for each other although they have never even met.
While these four girls are as close as can be, they could not be more different. They range in age and place in life, but they all have one thing in common. Their love lives are messed up and they desire the kind of love they read about in the books they devour. In this book we flash between the real life troubles of each girl with online conversations between the women breaking up each segment!
I really enjoyed watching these four women try to find their own special love and seeing which got their happily ever after and which did not! This book really showed me that real life love will never be like those idolized in the books we read but if you can really find it, it is so much more special than any book you could ever get your hands on!
~miranda
