Summer Blowout

Book: Summer Blowout
Author: Claire Cook
Year Published: 2009
My Rating: 3/5
Recommended For: 15+, probably only women would appreciate this book.

Short Summary: Bella Shaughnessy is a make up artist in a family of Boston Irish hair salon owners who is still unsure how to keep going after her ex-husband started dating her half-sister. She meets another man through business and even though they keep bickering they can't stay away from each other.

Review (Spoiler Alert)
Okay it was really hard for me to write a summary for this book because well I really wasn't sure where this book was going. Bella was kind of annoying because she kept on switching between her ex-husband (Craig) and this new guy (Sean Ryan). Like in one chapter she was hanging out with Sean Ryan and things were getting pretty romantic, the next Craig walks in. Sean Ryan leaves at that point and before we know it Bella is doing the nasty with Craig. For that reason I really began to dislike Bella's character. I did however really enjoy reading the book, even though the story line was a bit fuzzy for me I really enjoyed the descriptions, some of the ways Bella thinks and the smaller things in this story. It is actually a very fun read because it's very light. I sometimes did get annoyed with the amount of make up names were put in here but it went with Bella's character I mean after all she IS a make up artist. Sometimes I find myself comparing people to fictional characters in real life, but that is just a part of who I am. So I allowed that one to drop.
Besides the fact that the whole love story part of the book wasn't really well placed in the book, I really did enjoy reading it. I will most likely read this one again next summer. It's a great summer read because it's fairly short but you just don't want to put it down. That is a quality I love in books, I don't want to feel like a book is lagging I want it to feel like it runs smoothly and when it ends you just want to find out what happens next.