Review: The A to Z of Us

The A to Z of Us by Hannah Doyle
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 66%.

Alice and Zach meet at an art exhibition, Zach is the artist and Alice is there to support her friend Natalie who put on the evening viewing. Alice and Zach are complete opposites, even their names start at the opposite ends of the alphabet, he's a romantic and she's a cynic about love.

Zach persuades Alice to go on a series of dates, each one starting with successive letters of the alphabet, since they met at an art gallery their second date is at a bookshop etc, etc.

I quite liked Zach, he was a bit sensitive, although he's now ridiculously good-looking he was a shy, nerdish boy and he still suffers from insecurity, especially after he finds out that his girlfriend of eighteen months was actually seeing someone else all the time and that Zach was 'the other man'. On the other hand, I found Alice to be a very annoying character. Her default reaction appeared to be to call the whole thing off, I can't see that it was Zach's fault that his ex-girlfriend was cheating on her boyfriend and lying to Zach, but apparently it is in Alice-world. Ditto when Alice's BFF, the confident famous comedian acts like an aggressive, jealous, competitive douche, it's Zach's fault for being so sensitive (after he invited the tool to the evening for Alice's benefit).

I started this five months ago and recently made a determined effort to get into the book, but it just seems like a series of dates interspersed with Alice breaking up with Zach for various pointless reasons so at two-thirds of the way through the book I'm officially throwing in the towel.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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