Don't ask for trouble ..., 26 Jun 2008
I bought this book as I loved the film "Something Borrowed", which is fabulous. Sadly, the book is very poor indeed - the characters are really self-obsessed and wearisome, and the story (totally unlike the very grown-up and sparky film) is childish and namby-pamby. I can't imagine what other reviewers have seen in it. Chick lick should be - and certainly used to be - a whole lot better than this.

If you want to ask for trouble then, I'd advise giving this one a miss and buying the film instead.

Brilliant!, 27 Jul 2007
This book had me gripped from the beginning. Sophy creates a fake boyfriend, Dominic, to appease her mother and all is well until Sophy and Dominic's presence is asked when Sophy's sister, Belinda, gets married. Does Sophy tell her mother she lied? Does she hell. She hires an escort in the shape of Josh Carmichael. A witty, laugh out loud read that I couldn't put down. I couldn't help hoping for Sophy and Josh to get together but everything seemed to get in their way!

Girls grab the tissues!, 30 Jul 2006
Pure genius for any girl who loves her rom coms and I think that's almost any girl at heart.

The cast is superb with Jack Davenport adding that brilliant english humour. I don't think I realised how beautiful Debra Messing was beofre this film - stunning. Anyone who loved My Best Friend's Wedding with Dermot Mulroney with equally love him in this, if not more by the end. As Messing says in the dvd extras, Mulroney has some wicked charming lines throughout.

I never thought I'd say I'm a fan of Michael Buble but it would seem that I am after fabulous songs throughout the film. His version of Sway, Home and Save the Last Dance are really heartwarming, however there's no major songs, only sheet music on the soundtrack album.

Send the boyfriend to the pub or forget about the one who dumped you by grabbing some munchies and settling down with this one. You'll want to watch it again and again, so what if it didn't do great at the box office, it's still a classic in my books!


For once, a realistic heroine!!!, 20 May 2005
I've literally just finished reading this book and all I can say is, if you're not a size 8, stick thin, utterly ravishing bombshell, this book will be your best friend! In most of the books that I read, the heroine is usually the epitome of the perfect woman but Sophy (the heroine) is a size '13 and 3 quarters' as she puts it and like the averaged size woman, has a problem with her wobbly bits. However, by no means does this turn the book into a constant reminder of the diet you're supposed to be on! It's a funny, uplifting story with lots of laugh out loud moments that I would recommend to anyone - even better than the film 'The Wedding Date' which was losely based upon this book. Read it and see what I mean!

Hilarious, 30 Apr 2003
This was the 2nd book I read by the author and it was just a hilarious as the 1st one. She is so funny and full of life, I just can't put down her books. This books is really hitting reality when you are stuck at a wedding that is going to take place within a few months and feeling left out because you have no Boyfriend. What do you do. Well do you hire one and not get caught, or do you go by yourself. Read the book and find out what happens. It is so reality check time.

Don't ask for trouble ..., 26 Jun 2008
I bought this book as I loved the film "Something Borrowed", which is fabulous. Sadly, the book is very poor indeed - the characters are really self-obsessed and wearisome, and the story (totally unlike the very grown-up and sparky film) is childish and namby-pamby. I can't imagine what other reviewers have seen in it. Chick lick should be - and certainly used to be - a whole lot better than this.

If you want to ask for trouble then, I'd advise giving this one a miss and buying the film instead.

Brilliant!, 27 Jul 2007
This book had me gripped from the beginning. Sophy creates a fake boyfriend, Dominic, to appease her mother and all is well until Sophy and Dominic's presence is asked when Sophy's sister, Belinda, gets married. Does Sophy tell her mother she lied? Does she hell. She hires an escort in the shape of Josh Carmichael. A witty, laugh out loud read that I couldn't put down. I couldn't help hoping for Sophy and Josh to get together but everything seemed to get in their way!

Girls grab the tissues!, 30 Jul 2006
Pure genius for any girl who loves her rom coms and I think that's almost any girl at heart.

The cast is superb with Jack Davenport adding that brilliant english humour. I don't think I realised how beautiful Debra Messing was beofre this film - stunning. Anyone who loved My Best Friend's Wedding with Dermot Mulroney with equally love him in this, if not more by the end. As Messing says in the dvd extras, Mulroney has some wicked charming lines throughout.

I never thought I'd say I'm a fan of Michael Buble but it would seem that I am after fabulous songs throughout the film. His version of Sway, Home and Save the Last Dance are really heartwarming, however there's no major songs, only sheet music on the soundtrack album.

Send the boyfriend to the pub or forget about the one who dumped you by grabbing some munchies and settling down with this one. You'll want to watch it again and again, so what if it didn't do great at the box office, it's still a classic in my books!


For once, a realistic heroine!!!, 20 May 2005
I've literally just finished reading this book and all I can say is, if you're not a size 8, stick thin, utterly ravishing bombshell, this book will be your best friend! In most of the books that I read, the heroine is usually the epitome of the perfect woman but Sophy (the heroine) is a size '13 and 3 quarters' as she puts it and like the averaged size woman, has a problem with her wobbly bits. However, by no means does this turn the book into a constant reminder of the diet you're supposed to be on! It's a funny, uplifting story with lots of laugh out loud moments that I would recommend to anyone - even better than the film 'The Wedding Date' which was losely based upon this book. Read it and see what I mean!

Hilarious, 30 Apr 2003
This was the 2nd book I read by the author and it was just a hilarious as the 1st one. She is so funny and full of life, I just can't put down her books. This books is really hitting reality when you are stuck at a wedding that is going to take place within a few months and feeling left out because you have no Boyfriend. What do you do. Well do you hire one and not get caught, or do you go by yourself. Read the book and find out what happens. It is so reality check time.

Sex `n' drugs `n' literary novels, 22 Mar 2008
Elizabeth Young is apparently best known as the critical supporter of novelists of drugs, ultraviolence and extreme sex - writers such as Poppy Z Brite, Brett Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, Derek Raymond, William Burroughs and Dennis Cooper. She defended `The End of Alice' on the grounds that it was `literary', and `American Psycho' that it was `moral'. This selection also covers Alice Munro, Gordon Burn, Alan Warner, Anna Kavan, Michael Bracewell, Iain Sinclair, Jane Bowles and others, along with thoughtful analyses of True Crime, Terry Pratchett and Thomas Harris. Outside literature, there are pieces on conspiracy theories (`just remember - anyone important who is dead is actually still alive and vice versa'), punk and Hepatitus C. Among her damnings are the Fifties (`a menu of wholesomeness and conformity mired deep in the extreme conventions of racism and sexism'), current drug legislation, censorship (`merely imports the deceit, hypocrisy and ignorance of real life into the world of the imagination'), mainstream films (`have vanished into a black hole between star egotism and public idiocy') and authors who show a `relentlessly heartwarming excess of cutesy sentiment'. There is the odd howler ("John Wain's `Room At The Top'") but the general impression I got was of someone amazingly widely-read and humane, which made for a really enjoyable read. The book is handy too if you like the kind of writers mentioned above and want to find some new ones like them. Marghanita Laski, Jo-Ann Goodwin and Maruja Torres all sound interesting...