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The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken Reviewed By Candace Lybarger of Bookpleasures.com
- By Candace Lybarger
- Published September 26, 2011
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Candace Lybarger
Reviewer Candace Lybarger: Candace is a young wife, mother, and lover of all books. She received her Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education from The Ohio State University. Candace taught 3rd grade until an opportunity presented itself where she could work from home and be with her toddler. In addition to spending time with her family, Candace enjoys reading, music, history, traveling, and spending time outdoors. Her perfect day in a nutshell would be sitting in the sun with a book...or two!
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Click Here To Purchase The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken
Author: Mari Passananti
Publisher: Rutland Square Press
LLC
ISBN: 0615493645
The Hazards of Hunting
While Heartbroken, by Mari Passananti, is a funny, chic, and poignant
novel about a modern day woman searching for her Prince Charming.
Zoë lives in New York and has a complex job that is nowhere close to
what her College degree is in. Still, things seem mostly
perfect in her life. She is planning the wedding of the year,
lives in a terrific apartment, and has two best friends that have
been with her since her freshman year in college. However,
Zoë's world is turned upside down when she is dumped by her fiancé.
After a good deal of wallowing in self-pity, her best friends, Angela
and Kevin, are determined that Zoë put down the ice cream, take a
shower, and not become the deranged Cat Lady everyone knows.
Things start looking up for Zoë when she finds herself with a secret
admirer. On the outside Oscar seems like the perfect man...or
is he?
I thoroughly enjoyed Passananti's, The Hazards
of Hunting While Heartbroken. It is the perfect beach,
vacation, or 'I need to escape reality' read. The 3-diminsional
characters felt real, as did their individual situations.
Passananti did a great job in weaving the lives of Angela, Kevin, and
Oscar around her main character, Zoë. Ultra chic Angela has a
great job in the fashion world and is on all of the up and coming
lists. Smart and charming Kevin runs the mayoral campaign for a
popular candidate. Oscar, Zoë's rich boyfriend, has a past he
keeps hidden, an ex-wife that keeps showing up unexpectedly, and
secrets that Zoë finds hard to ingnore. Top it off with
Carol, Zoë's boss from Hell, and you have a hilarious, romantic, and
edge of your seat read.
Angela, Kevin, and Carol all went
through major changes throughout the book. However, the
character that went through the biggest change was Zoë. Zoë
started out as a woman who found her self worth in men. She
always had a significant other and did not know who she was without
one. When she found herself alone, Zoë became depressed and
helpless. All of the day to day chores seemed pointless and
complicated. Throughout the book Zoë starts to transform into an
independent women who realizes that she has to be happy with herself
before she can be happy with a significant other. This is a
great lesson for all women today.
Passananti did a great job
in creating and breathing life into her New York high society world.
Everything felt real from the fashion, restaurants, clubs, parties,
and even the New York landscape. Passananti was also able to
create a world for Zoë and her friends to reside in that resonates
with what I actually believe New York living to be like.
However, my favorite parts of the book came when Zoë was at her
job. I found myself laughing out loud at the situations Zoë
and her colleagues found themselves in. Furthermore, there were
more than a few times that I had to pick my jaw up from the floor
after I read about some of Carol's antics.
Passananti's, The Hazards of Hunting While Heartbroken is a
book that I will definitely recommend to all of my girlfriends.
If you are looking for a light, funny, quick read, The Hazards of
Hunting While Heartbroken is for you!