Eco-Blogger Sophia Malvin is a rebel with a cause, who shares her daredevil quest for a greener lifestyle in Sydney, Australia, with thousands of followers around the world.
Though Sophia's recovering from a painful breakup, things start looking up when her matchmaking friend Gwen agrees to set her up with the gorgeous and charismatic green-tech millionaire she's had her eye on for ages. But there's a Gwen insists that Sophia first go on three dates with a yawn-worthy restaurateur named Matt. Sophia soon discovers that Matt is nothing like she expected and that this blind date deal is taking her in uncharted directions.
Three Blind Dates is a fun and quirky chick lit read, full of smart characters and realistic romance, as well as some comic twists involving a mega-viral blog post, a Polynesian Princess, scrumptious chocolate salad dressing and lots more.
This novelette is approximately a quarter of the length of the average novel. It's a clean read - no love scenes or f-bombs.
1. Myra is a professional marketer. That means she gets paid to brainstorm wildly creative ideas, which is lucky because she does that all day anyway, even when she's not being paid. 2. Besides authoring chick-lit novels, Myra is also an adept writer of marketing copy, blog posts, collection letters to clients, front-end code, late notes for her children and third-person blurbs about herself. 3. Though she hasn't lived there for many years, Myra thinks that Sydney, Australia, is probably the world's most beautiful city. If you haven't visited, you must go. If you can't go, read Myra's books. It's the next best thing. 4. If you were to say to Myra: "look at that bird in that tree," she would probably answer with childlike enthusiasm, "you mean that Crimson Rosella in the Moreton Bay Fig?" 5. Despite having been promised three facts only, we are now up to No. 5. This is typical of Myra.
Ah--well if this wasn't a nice bundle of fun! Short, smart, and sweet, perfect to take a break with. Though I was pretty sure Sophia's thoughts about Mr. Yawn-Worthy would shift, I didn't quite buy into how big a jump the shift was in this timeframe, and a few extra or missing words had me rereading some sentences to make sure I understood. But all in all, it was just the fun that I expected, and a little more. Brava!