Reviewer: Rowena I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: The Dial Press
Publication Date: February 14, 2012
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Point-of-View: First
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 433
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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 her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading 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.
Sophie Kinsella delivers again. I really loved Can You Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella. I loved Jack and I loved Emma, it was such a fun book that I re-read it every so often just to fall in love with both Jack and Emma again. I read a couple of the Shopaholic books but after a while, Becky Bloomwood got on my nerves and I couldn’t pick another one up. I haven’t read any of the other books by Sophie Kinsella but I’m so glad that I picked this one up.
This book follows Poppy Wyatt as she goes completely crazy, trying to find her lost engagement ring. She’s engaged to a guy with a family that has bigger brains than her house. They’re so smart and she always feels inferior. So after she loses her engagement ring, she tears the hotel that she was at up trying to find it. Her phone gets lifted and she goes crazy all over again. She finds a new phone in the trash and snatches it up, fully intending to use it as her own until she can find her ring and move on with her life.
The phone belongs to the personal assistant of a businessman named Sam Roxton. All of his emails are sent to the smartphone in Poppy’s possession and Poppy works her magic on Sam and gets him to agree to let her use the phone until she gets her ring back. It is while she has Sam’s phone and is forwarding everything over to him that the story takes off. Poppy gets herself into all manners of madness while she has the phone and to make things even better, she gets Sam mixed up in her madness as well. The longer that Poppy has the phone, the closer they get and it is through the texts, emails and phone calls that their story is told. I loved it all. I fell in love with Sam right along with Poppy. Sam and his blunt, in your face personality, was a real treat to get to know. The way that he was with Poppy, helping her cheat at Scrabble, giving her advice when she needed it and then at the end? To know him was to love him.
Poppy was a fabulous main character as well. Her personality was sparkling and utterly charming and I really enjoyed getting to know her. The things that she got herself into had me laughing my guts out. She had such a great sense of humor and the way that she saw things, the way that she saw life was just a real treat. Even when she should have known better where Magnus is concerned, I liked her.
My only gripe with this story was the end. I thought it took Poppy too long to come around and when the end was nearing and she was still confused about Magnus and Sam, I wanted to bean her in the head. I thought that she should have been let Magnus go long before she did but alls well that ends well. Overall, the story was fun, funny and just too cute for words. I’m so glad that I read it and I definitely recommend this book. Fans of Kinsella will enjoy it as will fans of chick lit fiction. This book is a definite treat!
Grade: 4 out of 5
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