Ok so here we go. Has anyone out there ever put any thoughts into the important role Blurb Writers' who write the blurbs for the books play? I highly doubt it's the writers themselves, because, had the way in which some blurbs spin the plot to titillate and interest readers, occurred to them, they'd have surely written the book like that in the first place? At any rate the blurb for this book was a bit misguiding. The "messy haired, pajama pants wearing ball of sass" leads one to believe that there would be real humour and banter in the book, not used up, tired dialogues, and that the heroine would bring a refreshing depth and excitement in the story, which never happened. The blurb sketches the picture of an impetuous, funny, interesting, confident, heroine who really does make friends with a random girl her roommate had brought home last night. All the possiblilities that this simple sketch create in the readers' brain have immense potential to be interesting. What we get instead is a nice, respectable, boring case of mistaken identity in the very first pages, never to be repeated again. And the hero. Ok from the brilliant way the blurb spinned the story, you get the impression that the hero is a jerk, who has some hitherto unsuspected depths of feeling, which renders him mysterious and interesting, and he's aware of his surroundings including his roommate. But what you in fact get, is a whiny, oblivious, blank headed surgeon!!!! who seemingly doesn't even have a clue that he has to show the barest minimal amount of respect to his only friend's sister, who's let him move in her house temporarily. But this person is so brilliant that he overcame the hurdle of dyslexia to become a first rate surgeon in his own right. However said surgeon of immeasurable talent, this font of success, this sun king of boob augmenters, pouts and throws tantrums when his father is being mean to him. Boo hoo! And let's not even delve into the messy way the father is depicted. If you want to show he's a jerk u need to put more work in building that character, who even though rarely makes an appearance,seems to play a big role in your hero's psyche, than to simply rely on "literary devices". I think the hero was the biggest let down of the story. Funnily enough, the heroine who's an editor is shown having a discussion about the hero in her client's romance novel and they both say since it's a romance book, the hero needs to be good in the bedroom. And well, we all know the best heroes aren't good at everything but they have to be fantastic at a few things, and for me a hero's strength of character and sense of honour(in all its shapes and forms) is what need to be fantastic and the most important item of all. Sometimes even if the whole book is a mess the hero manages to rescue all. In this case the whole thing remained a mess.
Oh! And the last scene. Spoiler warning. Aren't we tired of grand gestures already? Haven't they lost their poignancy in this age of exhibitionism? Nowadays a private happy birthday and a hand written note, has come to mean so much more than a public declaration, in front of friends and frenemies in Facebook, or you tube or in the middle of parties and weddings. It's just so silly to grab the mike at the heroine's brother's wedding and say sorry for not calling her for more than a week. Have the guts to show up at her door and grovel like a man, you lazy jerk! But that's just me. I'm one of those eye-rollers when I come across couples who write odes to each other on special days, wish their spouses happy birthday or happy anniversary, or vow eternal love on valentine day in instagram, Facebook, or other social media. My devilish spirit who resides on my left shoulders bends to my ear and whispers: me thinks they doth protest too much!