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A book by Sophie Kinsella. I've never read her Shopaholic and only watched the movie of it, but somehow I came across this book in Borders and decided to give it a try, and this, is my first Sophie's book.

It's about Poppy who had a disastrous series of events before her wedding. She lost her engagement ring, then her phone, an annoying wedding planner which is one of her friend, Lucinda which complains a lot bout helping her doing this and that, problems with the future in-laws and etc. To make thing worse, that engagement ring has been in her fiance, Magnus Tavishes's family for THREE generations.

While pacing shakily around the hotel, she found a phone in the rubbish bin. Well, finders keepers! It turn out the phone's owner (well, ex-owner) were a personal assistant to businessman Sam Roxton. Poppy kinda went through the messages in the phone and kinda wade into Sam's personal life. Sam wants the phone back but Poppy won't give him back as she need a phone for the hotel staff or anyone who found her ring to contact her, so she will need to help Sam out and be his temporary PA for a while.

At the same time Poppy needs to hide the truth about the missing ring from Magnus and his family and to work out to get along with the Tavishes. The Tavishes, to Poppy, are like the academic version of The Incredibles, as if they have super-brains and super intelligent. She felt crushed and miserable inside when she's with them but Magnus insists that his parents love her!

Different fonts were use to show messages from the phone

It's a great book, and I love it!  The book was written in a way where the messages between the characters are shown clearly. How the story being unfold along the way with a few plot twist which I didn't expect THAT to happen, and it's such a heart warming love story. Totally your time worth reading it! Ok, maybe girls will like it more compare to guys. If they ever gonna shoot a movie based on this, I totally watching it!

This is my first book review ever, please do leave your comments and feedback so that I can improve in the future~ thanks!



SPOILER ALERT!! :


a few plot twist that happened: between Poppy and Magnus (especially during the wedding), Poppy and Magnus's parents (where she found out the truth about Magnus), Poppy and Lucinda (L cheated P!) ,and of course Poppy and Sam!