Perfectly Impossible, well written, but ....3*

 

Perfectly Impossible

 

This light and sometimes heartwarming book felt like a throw-back to the sixties, when escapist reading often delved into the lives of the uber rich and the problems that they create just by being.  I didn’t care for them then and didn’t love this book now.  I’d rather read about accessible people, not modern-day fairy tales.

 

Yet if you take away the glitz and glam, you are left with Anna, an undiscovered artist who pays her way by working for The Rich and Famous and Vacuous KissyVon Bismark (only her husband calls her Bambi.). Anna is a personal assistant extraordinaire, who can and does solve problems from the tiniest to the unimaginable.  She’s so good, in fact, that she’s unbelievable.  I wanted to believe in her, and if I suspend my disbelief enough to accept the over the top things she does for her boss, I can, but the world I know and the one created just doesn’t let me go that far.  Maybe I’m too much of a pragmatist for this one.

 

If you like tales of the rich and the world they inhabit, you will enjoy this one.  It is an easy read, and well written.

 

Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read it.

Sometimes, we all need a do-over. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. Great holiday escape!

In a Holidaze

 

When the annual family holiday trip to the mountains takes an unexpected turn, Maelyn Jones is devastated.  Not only has she engaged in a snog fest with the wrong brother, but the cabin where her family has vacationed all her life, with her parent’s college friends and families, is going to be sold and she’ll never have a chance at a do over with the right brother.

 

Only she does.  Again and again.  Maelyn gets thrown back in time and had to play out the entire vacation from the beginning, and only she knows what happened the first time.

 

This is a delightful holiday novel, just right for a season too busy for serious books.  The characters are the well drafted people who inhabit all our families, whether biological or chosen and they act accordingly. On top of that, it’s hilarious.  It’s a perfect book for 2020, because who wouldn’t want some “do overs?”

 

I received an ARC of In a Holidaze from NetGalley.  It’s release date is October 6, 2020.