2 BUSY 4 LOVE by Lucy Hepburn

2 Busy 4 Love by Lucy Hepburn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


ARC provided by publisher through NetGalley for an honest review.

4 Funny, Hilarious, Laugh-Out-Loud Stars

This book was so funny at times, I was holding my stomach and crying. It wasn't my typical book that I would normally buy, but I'm glad I requested it from NetGalley, cause it was really funny.

It kinda reminded me of something like the film How To Loose A Guy in 10 Days in situational humor.

Christy is a twenty-four year old Type A personality who uses her iPhone as her second brain and extra appendage. It's always stuck in her had. It holds her schedule and every app that she could possibly use to clients and herself organized as a personal assistant to everyone from extremely busy executives to young paparazzi followed heiress'.

The day she's to pick up her future brother-in-law from the airport, all hell breaks loose when Christy loses said iPhone on the train. The phone is picked up by Will, who is on his way to his family home to deal with the business of a deceased relative and his poet father, with whom he has a strained relationship.

First Christy picks up the wrong Antonio and everything goes downhill from there. But the calming voice of Will on the other line, helping her with her schedule makes her realize she's been missing something in her life. A companion, someone who's there when things go wrong and someone to celebrate with when things go well. She also comes to learn that she's a little pushy with her own family and has to let up a bit even when she thinks shes helping.

Will realizes, with Christy's help, that although he's experienced a childhood that wasn't ideal, he has a father that loves him in his own way and didn't completely drop out after his mother passe. He learns that it's never too late to establish the relationship he wants with his father.

Christy spends her day running around Manhattan, The Bronx, Newark and New Brunswick, with Italian supermodel Toni, who speaks broken English in commercial slogans and song lyrics trying to get her complete her tasks for her clients. Some of her judgement and preconceived notions of people are put to the test as well as the good will of others. Christy is always ready to help when someone is in need and this brings good things to her later in the story.

It's so funny at times, you can't help buy laugh so hard you cry. I would have liked a little better communication with Will at times, but I get where the author was coming from.

The idea that we are all way too connected to technology to even remember someone's phone number really resonated with me. I'm of an age that I remember when we had to remember everyone's numbers to call them or at least have it written down in a phone book next to the phone. I'm always complaining that I feel I don't use my actual brain enough, which is why I read. So I loved the idea of what happens when someone loses something that they use instead of their own brain or writing down.

Just too funny.

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