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What Goes Around
In this deliciously witty, delightfully wicked debut novel, Alexandra Carew introduces Cat Wellesley. Unlucky in love, unluckier in everything else, she's about to learn that what goes around, comes around...in the most unexpected of ways...
"Welcome to the bottom. Can I get you coffee or tea?"
If there's such a thing as paying your karmic dues, Cat Wellesley is working off debt from several really bad past lives--like Vlad the Impaler bad. How else could she explain the twisted road that took her from rising entertainment industry hotshot through a humiliating break-up with her boyfriend to a lowly temp job at a boring London investment firm? Stuck in the going-nowhere-fast lane, Cat's only escape lies in juicy office gossip with her co-workers and steamy private fantasies where her gorgeous boss plays a starring role.
"On the bright side, my horoscope says I've got nowhere to go but up."
Determined to turn her luck around, Cat is searching her horoscope, phone psychics, self-help emails, and the universe itself for signs to a better career and a possible Mr. Right. And just when things can't get any more confusing, along comes a man Cat thought she'd left behind--and a chance to get ahead that could be her salvation or her undoing.
"If you're unlucky in love, aren't you supposed to be lucky at something?"
Now, in a hip London world of fast-paced business deals, sexual misconduct, missed opportunities and chance meetings, Cat's high-flying past is about to collide with her out-of-control present, and the happiest of accidents might just be waiting around the next corner...
"Welcome to the bottom. Can I get you coffee or tea?"
If there's such a thing as paying your karmic dues, Cat Wellesley is working off debt from several really bad past lives--like Vlad the Impaler bad. How else could she explain the twisted road that took her from rising entertainment industry hotshot through a humiliating break-up with her boyfriend to a lowly temp job at a boring London investment firm? Stuck in the going-nowhere-fast lane, Cat's only escape lies in juicy office gossip with her co-workers and steamy private fantasies where her gorgeous boss plays a starring role.
"On the bright side, my horoscope says I've got nowhere to go but up."
Determined to turn her luck around, Cat is searching her horoscope, phone psychics, self-help emails, and the universe itself for signs to a better career and a possible Mr. Right. And just when things can't get any more confusing, along comes a man Cat thought she'd left behind--and a chance to get ahead that could be her salvation or her undoing.
"If you're unlucky in love, aren't you supposed to be lucky at something?"
Now, in a hip London world of fast-paced business deals, sexual misconduct, missed opportunities and chance meetings, Cat's high-flying past is about to collide with her out-of-control present, and the happiest of accidents might just be waiting around the next corner...
416 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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September 26, 2009
Comments before reading: I am trying to get through my "real" books before I delve in to my kindle again. Trying to make a hole in my bookshelf. Lol. I just want to read this for a quick easy read, can't even remember what it's about. I think it's going to be predictable chick books so I should be done in a few days or so.
Comments after reading:This book was not predictable like I thought it would be. At the beginning it was interesting because it was about this woman who worked in television programming so it was neat to hear about that. HOWEVER as you go along in the book the book SUCKS the life out of you. The main character is a whiny woman who can't seem to live without a man. Both of the men she falls for in the book are in love with other women and so there is the love triangle. I haven't finished this book yet I so hope this woman becomes more independent by the end. Oh yeah and the some of the chapters are only 2 pages long. A new chapter is a scene change, um. . . you can still keep it in the same chapter.
Comments after reading:This book was not predictable like I thought it would be. At the beginning it was interesting because it was about this woman who worked in television programming so it was neat to hear about that. HOWEVER as you go along in the book the book SUCKS the life out of you. The main character is a whiny woman who can't seem to live without a man. Both of the men she falls for in the book are in love with other women and so there is the love triangle. I haven't finished this book yet I so hope this woman becomes more independent by the end. Oh yeah and the some of the chapters are only 2 pages long. A new chapter is a scene change, um. . . you can still keep it in the same chapter.
June 23, 2013
This is book #4 of 5 from the wedding shower prize basket I mentioned in the review for Liar, Liar. It was boring.
January 15, 2009
Terrible
December 8, 2013
Kept waiting for it to get better...never happened.
January 17, 2023
I was intrigued by everything about Hong Kong because I've never read or learned much about it. But the book was slow and I found myself skimming past a lot of the self help and horoscope parts. I mainly finished it to find out who she ended up with even though I was pretty sure I had ot figured out halfway through. I got this at a book sale and didn't realize it was written in 2002. I'm sure at the time all the electronic stuff was top of the line but reading about it now makes it sound archaic.
May 29, 2019
I enjoyed the beginning of this however, as it went on it just got more and more boring. If Cat would have maybe gotten over her ex lovers quicker, and the development of her relationship with Mark would have been touched on more than just the last chapter I would have liked it more.
May 22, 2024
Really hard to get started. I was about 150 pages in before I made myself keep going. But then I did get to the point where I wanted to finish it. And I wanted to see what happened next. So it got better.
March 16, 2019
Picked this one up at a resort while in Mexico. Good easy beach read!
May 5, 2020
could have a better ending
November 22, 2023
It was okay! It kept me coming back but definitely droned on at parts. Was sometimes hard to follow the timeline & names of male characters but we got through it. Nice to read for a change over audio.
August 21, 2009
This book was decent. The main character was a little too over-the-top to be completely relatable, but there's definitely a hint of realism to the way relationships seem to work. An OK beach read, though it does start a bit slow. It picks up after a few chapters.
August 21, 2011
I like this book but after so long it gets kind of dry. I think the auther could of cut a lot of it out. But i liked the ending when thngs starting to get good.
July 11, 2014
.is supposed to come around but when? The title continues – Cat has had a set back in her TV career and takes some time to get her life sorted out.
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