A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she’s lost her phone too.When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be…Finders Keepers!
Except the phone's owner, elusive 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.Can things get any more tangled?
Rating: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this book and absolutely loved Sam's character. He may be a ruthless businessman who is determined to get his phone back, but he also spends his time helping Poppy come into her own and face the things she's been dreading. However another character that really had me in stitches was Willow. She is the perfect psycho ex who doesn't seem to understand that her relationship has ended, and her emails to Sam are hilarious. I'm certain that she would be have been a total bridezilla given the chance.
However I wasn't quite so fond of the main character Poppy. Now it's not that I really dislike her, but she just seemed too similar to another character of Kinsella's; Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series. As such whilst I was reading the book I kept thinking oh but that's exsctly what Becky would have done.
When it came to the storyline I'm glad that Poppy was portrayed as a loyal girl, although I do wonder why alarm bells never rang in her head when Magnus propsed after only a month of being together. I'm glad that even though towards the end she suspects she may have feelings for someone else Poppy always tries to do the right thing for everyone else.
I think I may have liked to see a couple more stand offs between Sam and Poppy, maybe with a bit more Willow thrown into the mix. I don't know. Given that the entire story takes place over a ten day period things have developed a little quickly. Although that said when you read the book it doesn't feel like a ten day period it feels like several weeks.
Would I recommend this book? Oh yes. I wouldn't say it had me in stitches, but there were still some funny moments along the way.
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