Talk to Me by Jules WakeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Olivia has been in love with her friend Daniel for years, just when she thinks they might finally be getting together he ends up with her gorgeous flatmate and work colleague Emily. Emily is beautiful and very high maintenance, and she may have told Daniel a teensy little fib about Olivia seeing a married man - it's a hot button for Daniel as his mother had an affair so he is totally disgusted that Olivia could do something like that.
Although Olivia and Emily work for the same advertising and marketing company their jobs couldn't be more different. Predictably Emily works in the fashion and make-up section while Olivia works in the construction team, spending most of her days slogging round construction sites talking to beefy guys in Hi-Vis jackets.
Olivia's family are convinced that she is still pining for her scummy ex and won't listen when they say she's over him (because obviously she can't tell them that she's pining for Daniel who knows her family really well), so they guilt her into going on a speed-dating evening organised by a cousin. When Emily gets wind of the speed dating event, which is taking place in a swanky hotel, she invites herself along and, despite dating Daniel ticks three boxes for guys she's like to see again.
As others have said, as a romantic comedy this works really well, but introducing a stalker (one of the rejected speed-daters) into the mix threw the balance of the novel off and it didn't seem to know whether it was a rom-com or a thriller.
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