Review: Click: An Online Love Story by Lisa Becker.

Rowena’s review of Click: An Online Love Story by Lisa Becker.

Fast approaching her 30th birthday and finding herself not married, not dating, and without even a prospect or a house full of cats, Renee Greene, the heroine of Click: An Online Love Story, reluctantly joins her best guy pal on a journey to find love online in Los Angeles.

The story unfolds through a series of emails between Renee and her best friends (anal-compulsive Mark, the overly-judgmental Ashley and the over-sexed Shelley) as well as the gentlemen suitors she meets online. From the guy who starts every story with “My buddies and I were out drinking one night,” to the egotistical “B” celebrity looking for someone to stroke his ego, Renee endures her share of hilarious and heinous cyber dates. Fraught with BCC’s, FWD’s and inadvertent Reply to All’s, readers will root for Renee to “click” with the right man.

There haven’t been too many stories told through e-mail that I haven’t enjoyed and this book was no exception. Click: An Online Love Story follows Renee Greene as she braves the world of online dating and lives to tell all about it to her friends through emails. Renee’s friend Mark has talked her into doing the whole online dating thing and when Renee starts everything up, she really starts everything up. Almost immediately, she’s got emails coming in and she’s going on dates and most all of her dates are bad. Then they’re not bad and they’re good but over the course of a few weeks, they turn bad.

Renee reminds me of all of the single women out there trying to find their Mr. Right. She’s cute, she’s funny and she had a great support system in her friends Shelley, Ashley and Mark. Women in their twenties and thirties will connect with Renee because who hasn’t gone on a bad date? Who hasn’t thought they found the one and found out they were wrong and cried to their friends all about it through emails? I know I have and that’s why I enjoyed this book so much because Renee could have been me. I related to each one of her bad dates and I laughed right along with her friends when Renee emailed about each of dates.

Her friends round out what made this book such an entertaining tale. Shelley and her inappropriate comments, Mark and his anal-compulsiveness and Ashley with her judgmental ways. They all brought something different to this circle of friends and they each had me laughing, rolling my eyes down the street or just smiling throughout the entire book. I adored Shelley even though I couldn’t believe how many different guys she did the deed with in a month. She was always with someone new but she owned it all, she didn’t pretend that she wasn’t who she really was and I think of all of Renee’s friends, Shelley was my favorite. It was hard for me to like Ashley because 1) she got on my nerves with the hot and cold relationship she had with Evan and 2) she was so judgmental. Mark made me laugh because it took him forever and a day to get his online dating profile up and the reasons he found for each and every date that he broke was another thing that had me laughing.

This book is short but it’s sweet and I think fans of chick lit and contemporary romance will enjoy this. Especially if you’ve read and enjoyed The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot and Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham. I definitely recommend this book.

GIVEAWAY ALERT: Lisa Becker has graciously agreed to give away a free e-copy of this book to a lucky commenter. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post and tell us a brief story of an online dating disaster, if you don’t have one then share with us how often you email your friends during the day. Good luck!

This book is available from Lisa Becker. You can buy it here and here in e-format.

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