I’ve lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!!
Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her ‘happy ever after’ begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring but in the panic that followed, she has now lost her phone. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life.
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents… she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.
When Poppy Wyatt loses her engagement ring she has no idea that it will change her life forever. Because she is so frantic to find the ring in the hotel ballroom she is pacing the lobby trying to get her cell phone to work. When she heads outside to get a signal she gets her cell swiped! Now she’s beside herself because all the people who could contact her about the missing ring have that cell number. Again pacing in the lobby she happens by a trash bin and what does she find…a cell phone. Hey – finders keepers, right? She needs a phone and there’s one just laying there…why not use it.
The phone is actually the property of a company and belonged to Sam Roxton’s personal assistant who ended up quitting her job on the spot and throwing the phone away. Poppy and Sam begin a strange and insightful relationship into each other that is at times antagonistic and others quite sweet. Poppy helps Sam with many things – including a scandal that breaks out at his company – and Sam helps Poppy stop and think about her own life.
But then there’s Magnus, Poppy’s fiancé. He is brilliant and wonderful and loves Poppy to pieces – or so she thought. Maybe that’s not really what’s going through Magnus’s mind and if he doesn’t love her to pieces, why is he marrying her? And why are his parents against the wedding? And why is she thinking constantly about Sam and looking forward to his texts in the midst of her wedding semi-breakdown?
I’ve Got Your Number takes us into the lives of Sam and Poppy and the proof that two people who are nothing alike can find a common ground and possibly love.
The story was quite interesting as it took Poppy and her phone a lot of different places. It did make me stop and think about how much we use our phones for our lives these days. Sometimes it’s hard to turn the darned thing off and just not care about the outside world for a while. Poppy definitely had this problem as well but it ended up being a good thing.
Poppy was an intelligent woman. She was a Physiotherapist (which I believe in America is a Physical Therapist) so she was very helpful to other people and she really cared about the outcomes of her patients – even going so far as to give a few of them her cell number and having them contact her in emergency – or in some cases to give her good news. She loved her family and cared about her friends but at times during the story she came off as a bit flighty. I think part of the problem was that she was trying to be a friend to everyone and that made her push aside some of her own feelings. I think the brushing off of her own feelings made her seem a ditzy and she really wasn’t. That was one of the things that Sam helped her with and I loved that he saw this part of her.
Sam came off as a workaholic but really we only got to see the work side of him. He was networking or working in his office most of the time and that made him incredibly focused. Poppy even managed to realize at one point that she really knew nothing about his social life or family because all she knew was his work. This did bother me a bit as I would have liked for him to talk to her about himself some more. Sam and Poppy shared a lot of texts and Sam was abrupt to start with but eventually began to loosen up which was nice.
The romance in this book is most definitely not typical. It is done mostly by text and phone call and while that was entertaining it lacked a certain depth for me. I’m glad the book ended up the way it did (I’m not giving anything away) and I can only hope that Poppy and Sam get to know each other better…off page. 🙂
Overall a fun book that I really enjoyed reading.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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