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Love Rehab by Jo Piazza – Review/Giveaway

Prize alert:  Harlie has learned that she giving away a print copy of Love Rehab courtesy of Open Road Integrated Media.  Rafflecopter is at the bottom of the post.  Good luck.  Publisher will be mailing the copy to you.

 

Peeps…I don’t care how old you are, this book is a must read.  Share it with your friends, nieces, daughters, heck even the men in your life.  Laugh out loud funny but it does make you think about what YOUR idea of a love relationship is and how it defines you.  Full review is at the bottom…

 

 

For anyone who has ever overdosed on love—or planned the wedding before the second date—Jo Piazza’s dazzling debut novel is a must-read

Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accounts—you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love.

Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-bound, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance.

But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone.

If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she saves herself in the process.

Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.

Review:

Okay, I have to admit my real age here…46, happily married for 8 years and a mom to a 8 yr old boy.  You would think that I wouldn’t identify with the characters in this book but sadly I did.  I just didn’t have cell phone or social media when I was in the dating pool.

This book had me laughing out loud more times than not.  Yes, its chick lit and there is a bit of a romance in the end but its more about self discovery and how different women deal with breakups, hookups and eventually their self-worth when it comes to their relationships with men.

Founded on the premise of AA, the Love Rehab support group was formed.  The group is an eclectic group of women from all walks of life, professions and social/economic classes.  Eventually there is a male in the group and the results are heartwarming when he realizes how big of a douche he has been to women.

Sophie isn’t a one dimensional character.  She has a lot of layers and when she finally peels those layers from her and realizes that she needs to love herself first, its emotional.  Failing for Annie’s doctor Joe wasn’t in the plan but sometimes love doesn’t care.  (BTW, that isn’t a spoiler but their relationship is explored in great depth and with a deft hand)

What is so fun about the book is the dialogue.  Spot on, laugh out loud funny and true to the characters that speak them.  No two women are alike and its reflected in their thought, actions and dialogue.  OMG…the movie references are to die for.  Plus, when one of the women finally confronts her ex at the end of the book.  Again, OMG!  Its a question that every woman has after a break up.  I nearly came to tears for her.  It was sad but in the end, she wanted to hear it and her reaction was priceless.

I’m not sure really what else to say except this is must reading for the summer.  Some of what you will read will make you cringe, laugh, cry and want to really slap any man upside his head.  As we all know, women are emotional and men…well, they are still trying to figure themselves out.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY

Jo Piazza (b.1980) began her career as a staff writer at the New York Daily News after receiving a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Millions of people have enjoyed her “Celebenomics” column on AOL’s PopEater site, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast and Slate. Jo has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR.

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8 thoughts on “Love Rehab by Jo Piazza – Review/Giveaway

  1. I did and as a teenager i absolutely thought it was the end of the world…..it wasn’t until i married and was older and realised how badly i had been treated in that relationship that i knew I’d had s lucky escape…I knew because my husband has always treated me as a Princess even after almost 22 years of being together…I LOVE U ANT ♥…..THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY

  2. I had a brakeup with my boyfriend right after high school and I though my life was over. We had been talking about getting married. Little did I know then that I would meet my husband six months later.

  3. YES I THOUGHT LIFE WAS OVER ON SOME BREAKUPS WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BOOK AND THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY!

  4. I’ve had breakups but I never thought it was the end of the world. I always thought it was the guys loss and that something better would eventually come along.

  5. I did but learned there were better things ahead. My daughter is going through a sad breakup right now and feels there won’t be anothe love for her.

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